Hi everyone!
I’m really enjoying the Fediverse through Lemmy and Peertube.
One creator I enjoy and follow on the Fediverse is Gardiner Bryant as his content is really enjoyable.
Sadly he ´s the target of my post as he shares his content on many different communities that I follow.
Today I had 5 times the same topic on RetroDeck (great project too) on my feed on Lemmy (Voyager).
It is the same on PieFed (Interstellar).
This is really annoying and I haven’t found a way to not show these duplicates. Do you know about one or is it worked on?
Also when crossposting, it would be great if everything appeared under on post. Is it feasible?
Sorry if it’s easy and I just missed it. In a way I hope it is because it would mean that the Fediverse is festure rich😇
Reposting, or rather, cross-posting, is fine and it’s the correct way to do things in the Fediverse. A post can be relevant to different communities because each one has their own cultural take on a given subject.
What we need is clients that present a better interface to view (and resume) that relationship, but that’s not on you, let alone on the people who create content for the Fediverse. We want there to be more of it (and more varied), not less.
What is retro deck doing?
Both Mbin and Piefed solved this.
Yes according to some people, but what apps do you use to not have the issue?
Because I’m mostly on the Fediverse on my mobile phone (iOS)…
Such a feature could make me switch from Lemmy/Voyager, although I really love Voyager UI and dislike Interstellar for now.
Ah, that’s where I can’t help I guess, as someone who doesn’t use mobile apps.
Yeah I checked and as you can see with these Lemmy and PieFed printscreens, it’s really the mobile apps which are not taking care of the issue.
Block the spammer. Works every time.
Karma farmers gonna farm.
Hello there, original writer of the article, and the posts here.
I’ve been contributing to the fediverse for years now. Not only am I on Lemmy every single day, I’m on Mastodon. Gardiner (my partner in the site, he and run it together!) is well known for his support of the fedivers. Every video he makes goes to subscribeto.me
I explained elsewhere in this post why I share my posts as I do, but maybe just do a quick scroll through my profile here. You’ll see years of me sharing to this space.
Karma farmers gonna farm.
What exactly do you think I will do with this karma?
Thanks for your great work! Clearly you are an outlier among social media users, most of whom are overwhelmingly (if not exclusively) consumers. My karma-farmer comment was a generalization, not directed at you. I apologize if it gave offense.
As for what anybody hopes to do with social media karma, I really don’t know. Someone once told me well developed reddit accounts can actually be bought and sold, but that has to be a very niche activity. Over the years I’ve abandoned at least a dozen reddit accounts with tens of thousands of points, because I came up with a username I liked more. My best guess is that the main appeal of karma is validation for people who don’t have enough positive interaction IRL, but I’m not trained in psychology.
Oh my Gosh. Okay, this is me!
One creator I enjoy and follow on the Fediverse is Gardiner Bryant as his content is really enjoyable.
First off, thank you so much! Really appreciate you enjoying the articles we put out :) One think I might emphasize here though is that so far as the site goes, Gardiner and I are partners! This is one of my articles though (so I’m to blame for this appearing so often in your feed). In fact I’m 99.99% sure Gardiner doesn’t actually share his articles on Lemmy at all.
Sadly he ´s the target of my post as he shares his content on many different communities that I follow.
(And I’m ‘she’!)
I’m sorry it appears like this. It used to annoy me back when I was regularly on Reddit, when a post was cross-posted to a different community I’d have to follow that link, read their description of the post, then follow the link then go back a few steps to start/join the discussion in that community. Since joining Lemmy and sharing here (it has been a long time!) I just went against that grain and posted in the communities it was relevant to, to give each community a space to chat about it.
I had no idea your app was showing it this way, or that how I was doing this was annoying anyone. I’ll just go back to the age old cross-post method instead, going forward. Interesting that your app shows it this way, the one I use seems to do that for me.
Sorry to annoy you! It won’t happen going forward :)
Well I didn’t know you were Dash. I feel honored that you answered to my post.
I enjoy reading your articles on the Bryant Review and I’m sorry if I thought that Gardiner wrote the article about RetroDeck when in fact it was you.
Thanks for taking note of the fact that the method you were using was creating duplicates and I hope crossposting solves the issue (although half of the duplicates shown on my feed were from Lazorne and not from you). If not, it ain’t such a big deal, just a small annoyance.
At least everyone now knows that the Bryant Review and RetroDeck are great and deserve to be known for it!
Oh no problems!
I just shared an article (the full interview of my questions and answers with the DroidDeck team, which I turned into that feature article on our site!) which is on my NeoCities site, by cross-posting to three communities here. From what I see though it is the exact same issue again, just with a different method.
I think this is in fact a Fediverse issue, and not how I’ve been sharing articles to communities here. I’m sorry!
I only saw it on the games@lemmy.world community. On what other community did you post it too?
If people who subscribed to all of these comminities are seeing duplicates, I guess it’s really a Fediverse issue as I totally understand why you wanna post on many communities to reach more people.
Let’s hope a developper finds a way to solve it one day.
Hello,
Thank you for posting those aricles. I wouldn’t worry too much about crossposting, as you can see from the comments, there are apps and other software that deals with this better, so you shouldn’t refrain too much.
Note that the post doesn’t necessarily go against your (re)posting style, but rather how it is represented in the apps. As others have noted, there are options that combine reposts, with Voyager (which is shown in OP’s screenshot) having an open issue ticket. Though you using the native repost function probably helps.
Thank you for your work, btw ❤️
There’s a few cross folk in here, whose comments (I can’t pretend don’t hurt a bit!) do disagree. I’ll just have to have a think how I share on here going forward. The last thing I want to do is annoy anyone, but it takes a user all of 2 seconds to click on my profile here and see I’m deeply invested in the fediverse and have been on Lemmy for years now.
I appreciate your comment, thank you for saying so!
Well just know that the professionalism with which you are handling this situation has shown your good character to people like me, who have not heard of your work before. It made me want to go check out your site and articles now.
https://gardinerbryant.com/author/dash/
In that case, have at it!
And thank you so much, what a kind comment to find :)
I block the person who spam posts. Then I never have to worry about seeing their posts again.
I’d do this if he wasn’t one of my favorite creators doing a lot of good for the Fediverse by publishing his content there.
Summit can mark dupes as read, so they’re at least dithered out
Technically the default Lemmy UI does hide the dupes, although it may still be buggy. I’m not sure which apps do and don’t do that though
My understanding is that Piefed does group the posts together, but that no apps currently implement that feature.
From Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz, it sounds like the Connect app does stack the posts, but that may be through their own feature and not Piefed’s (no idea). I just looked for a site or post that compared app features and couldn’t find one that listed grouping cross-posts.
My recollection is that Lemmy 1.0 may have cross-post grouping, but I don’t see it listed as a feature on 1.0 beta testing post.
That one one thing I liked about Piefed. If only the creator wasn’t a man-baby.
PyLova has that feature as well: https://codeberg.org/quokkau/PyLova
Here’s how piefed handles it using the browser.
Its so nice.
Piefed really is lemmy done right in many aspects
Im starting to discover this too… Just too stubborn to give in, and I don’t want the instance I am currently using to die.
I think it’s more of an etiquette problem than a feature problem. Posting the same thing to many different communities should be deleted as spam. The multipost in your screenshot is certainly spam. Report that.
If you are want to post something and don’t know which community fits best, or feel like multiple could fit, then just post your thing tone community. If other people find your post especially interesting, they can crosspost it. To me, cross-posting your own posts is a sign of an overinflated sense of self-importance.
To me, cross-posting your own posts is a sign of an overinflated sense of self-importance.
When I see a comment like yours, I just wonder why I bother sharing my articles here.
Because lots of us appreciate them! I have a psp now because of one of your articles.
This would break the way many users use Lemmy & Co. I’m happy about users that cross-post.
I only follow communities I subscribe to. Let’s say I follow B but don’t follow A. If a user posts something related to topic A and topic B only in a community A, which I don’t follow, I would miss information interesting to me. When the user cross-posts to community B as well, then I’ll also see that useful post.
Also, even the same topic/community appears on different instances, and some users may not even be aware of the same community in other instances. They would miss useful or interesting information without cross-posting.
It is okay to miss out on something. If nobody crossposts it, it probably wasn’t that interesting anyways.
If you are afraid that you are missing out on some content, then look at the crossposts in your followed communities. Maybe the communities that were the origin of the crossposts are interesting, and worth joining? Then you’ll also see all their posts in the future.
If you want to see all posts that could remotely be relevant to you, you ultimately will have to follow all possibly relevant communities anyways. Because most users post their things simply to one community and call it done. And that’s ok and good, and does not need changing.
I could completely reverse your argument, insulting on why you should do differently.
It’s completely subjective.
You want to argue that people should post their posts to more communities?
And why do you want to insult me?
PS: “insulting” was a phone typo, sorry! 🙏 makes no sense :) I meant “insisting” or “arguing”.
I’m not insulting anyone(edit: that was because of a typo, see other reply). I don’t want to argue. I’m simply saying that the position or preference is subjective: neither I or you can make an objective argument of why someone ought or oughtn’t to cross-post.The simple proof is that you’re unhappy about cross-postings – and surely I have no right to say that you should be happy about them instead. And at the same time I am happy about cross-postings – and you have no right to say that I should be unhappy about them instead.
Multi-comms are a planned future feature IIRC.
Piefed web interface does stack comments if cross posted, so I’m guessing the poster isn’t bothering to cross post if it isn’t showing that way in Intersellar.
I feel stupid asking but is perfect dark made aware of the problem with what you did? (Adding the @ before his name)
Yes, that’s a ping. If I do @dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works , you should get an additional notification for that ping.
Well I only got one notification but I guess it’s because you answered to my question and it would be stupid to have two notification (one for the ping and one for the answer)
If only Teams would do the same thing at my workplace
Direct messages with “Hi @firstname.lastname” really grind my gears
No hello is considered passive aggressive lol
