Recently had some people tell me that connect isn't collapsing cross-posts so when a post is posted to multiple communities at the same time it floods the feed
The behaviour that occurs in lemmy-ui is it checks for posts with the same url in the ones its showing the user and removes any duplicates, only keeping the oldest one (and showing links to the rest in a cross-posted to section)
This helps especially in instances that recommend cross-posting since topics overlay between multiple communities
Should be relatively easy to implement since its just comparing the url values of the posts you already have
Does any app support this?
Havent done a check on all of them yet but figure they should all match the behaviour of the main lemmy frontend and its better behaviour to have then to just let it flood
So far I made this post here and opened up an issue in the jerboa repository since those were the two that were reported
I agree it would be a great QOL feature but I tried pretty much every app (on android) and none supported it. I follow the app communities too but I may have missed an update post.
yeah ill probably have to make an issue on all of their repositories
its pretty much only supported by the main instance web frontends (lemmy-ui and pangora-ui) (been supported on lemmy-ui since before all of the apps were made)
currently recommended in programming.dev to cross post to as many communities as you can to give content to the lower activity communities and since there tends to be a lot of overlap with topics but thats conflicting with current app behaviours
If it were implemented, how would comment threads work? Would they also be combined?
no, theyre still two different posts and have different post views outside of the feed. Just one is more prominently shown in the feed while the rest are just links in the
cross-posted tosection below the post in the feed when it detects that multiple posts have the same url. Comment threads combining would be a separate featureSo if I were to tap on the post in the feed, which post's comment section would I see? The first post? Most recent post? The most popular post?
lemmy-ui does the oldest post
but you can get to any other post instead by tapping them in the cross-posted to section
So in this if you tap the title you go to the post on gamedev since its the oldest post. But if you tap game_design at the bottom you go to the post on game_design