Reddit could have done this too, but never did. At least to my knowledge.
There must be a reason.
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ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What I really want out of a federated Reddit-like service is link consolidation. I don’t want to see the same link posted on five different communities; I want those to be consolidated into one topic, with the OP text and comments from each threaded below it. It’d clean up the interface and make it work a lot more usefully.
In fact, this would make pretty much everything in the Fediverse better. Let me sort my timeline by URL or hashtag, so that I can see what is being said about a certain thing and not make the same observation or joke that a dozen others already have. Put that functionality into an RSS reader, so that I can see the discussion without leaving the article. Or, even better, merge the two into a single feed, tying threads together based on the URL that’s being shared.
Now that would be an “everything app” worth using.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 week ago
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 week ago
On Reddit, I kinda get it. You wouldn’t want to connect the same link across (for instance) /r/antiwork and /r/conservative; the crosstalk there would get horrifyingly bad. But on a federated platform, when you could have multiple /c/antiworks on different instances, it fragments the conversation.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Reddit sorta half did it with the “other discussions” or duplicate tab.
As an example,
old.reddit.com/…/a_clicktocancel_rule_intended_to…
I never saw any apps implement it, but it does look like it was part of the API, but maybe it wasn’t robust enough.
I also know at one point, and possibly still, is that it lacked URL normalization. So for example, exanple.com/headline and example.com/headline#topstory would be treated as two different articles.
Similarly youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ and youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
Would be treated as separate articles.
These are all fixable problems, but require work.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh, interesting. I honestly just glazed over that every time, but you’re right that that’s a step in the right direction. What I’d really like is for the instance to go the next step further and merge the conversations visually.
So in my mind, at the top of any individual post you’d see the thumbnail and the link title; and then underneath that, as a special-looking top-level comment, it would show the post title and OP text for each incarnation of the post across various instances and communities. The replies to those individual posts are then all rolled up under their top-level comment.
You could roll Mastodon (and other Fediverse) posts in there, too; they would just appear as their own top-level comment, just like replying to Lemmy posts on Mastodon works currently.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I haven’t been there in years but there used to be a “related discussions” link that would show you a list of other places a link was posted.
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 week ago
Lemmy has that too (depending which app/frontend you use)
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 week ago
Doesn’t PieFed already do this?
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Apparently! Everyone’s talking about topics and feeds, I didn’t know they’d made that advancement. Gonna check it out!
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Piefed solves that issue: piefed.zip/post/100161
All comments from 5 crossposts in a single view
A few other options
Carighan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That is amazing!
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
also, piefed.blahaj.zone
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh, fascinating! I’m going to have to take a look. Everyone’s talking about topics and feeds, I didn’t know they’d made that advancement.
greybeard@feddit.online 1 week ago
It's pretty critical to topic feeds. The app I'm using doesn't understand the link consolidation thing that Piefed offers, so I'll see 5 of the same post all together in it. Really I just need to start using a PWA instead of the app until Piefed has better app support.
wjs018@lemmy.world 1 week ago
As somebody that has done a lot of recent work on the UI for piefed, I have tried to make sure that it works even at quite small screen sizes. I actually just submitted a couple commits in the past couple hours to make the navbar across the top of communities/feeds/topics flow smoother across different screen sizes. The PWA is so far my preferred way to use piefed.
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 week ago
There is a Thunder fork (not main code last I checked), and experimental support from Voyager and Interstellar, but yeah feature development is so fast that the webpage may be best until more people take the time to add each new feature to each of those apps.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Good to know. I want to use webapps rather than native apps as much as possible anyway, so this is probably good.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Enjoy!
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 week ago
Also
https://quokk.au - if you want a smaller community.
Voyajer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And you sold me.
Eheran@lemmy.world 1 week ago
When I click your first link all I get is “No Comments”.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I just checked, it works on my side.
Does this one work? piefed.world/post/253374#post_replies
Eheran@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Works in the browser, although it takes a long time to load. It does not work from within “connect”, perhaps because of the long delay.