Submitted 1 year ago by rimu@piefed.social to fediverse@lemmy.world
https://piefed.social/post/555259
What do you notice about the comments on this post? https://piefed.social/post/555259
The post was made in the news@lemmy.world community and other posts linking to the same news article were made in technology@lemmy.world and in askusa@discuss.online. 3 different posts in 3 different communities.
PieFed de-duplicates them and only shows the post once in the timeline and when viewing the post all the comments on those 3 posts are shown in one place.
The fragmentation problem is solved.
Hmm I guess some people might like this but I’d be a bit afraid of mixing different communities just because the same link is posted in them. Different communities might have different rules and different expectations for participation and such. This kind of mixes the different communities together.
Like imagine someone posts a link to an article to !nyheder@feddit.dk (Feddit.dk news community), which is already posted in !world@lemmy.world. If I understand correctly, I’d then see comments from both communities on the same page? But the comments on Feddit.dk will be in Danish and will probably largely be about how the news story affects Denmark, while the comments on lemmy.world will be in English and from a more international perspective. But muddling these things together takes away the “identity” of the community and suddenly you’ll be seeing stuff you maybe won’t want to see (i.e. danish comments for instance if you are not danish).
I think there at least should be a user preference to disable this, and an option for moderators to opt out of this, to avoid the above situation.
But the comments are still separated out by community in the example post. You can still see the discussion in !technology@lemmy.world as a stand alone, isolated discussion, but if you scroll further you also get the !AskUSA@discuss.online. I assume if you reply to a comment, you’re then replying in that community, but I didn’t test that.
Lemmy shows links to all the posts about the same link (I think) so it doesn’t feel like an improvement over that
Piefed keeps leading the charge eh? With every new feature added I wish even more that there was a mobile app for it. Well, that or Lemmy devs taking some inspiration and implementing something similar, I guess.
that there was a mobile app for it.
Thunder fork is ongoing
I’ll keep an eye on it, thanks! I was looking at Thunder the other day actually since Sync is probably going to stop working eventually. Sadly I found it a little buggy and lacking some features, but I’ll follow its development for sure.
I only see one title and one post body; what happens if 3 people share the same link but with 3 different titles and description bodies?
Do they get merged, does one get arbitrarily selected? Or does this only work on posts with identical link+title+body?
Very cool, thanks!
Really cool work.
That is excellent! I had suggested something similar for lemmy frontend devs to implement, but I love to see it natively on piefed.
It’s pretty hard to tell where the split is when you’re in a big comment section.
So i updated the fxomt theme to make it easier to tell the split: pub.microbin.eu/upload/otter-pony-duck
Difference:
I think the default theme definitely needs to have that solved, though.
even just some margin-top would help
That’s a pretty good methodology. Threads are still distinct, but all on the same page. Hopefully lemmy can implement somtjing similair.
I would reduce the distinctiveness, personally. Lemmy/reddit/etc commonly have separate subthreads on thr same page, so its not like it needs to be a prominent feature that each subthread is from a different comm. Note it maybe, but less prominent seems better.
A couple of issues with little to no distinction:
Community rules. If 4 communities were in the same thread at once this would be harder for moderators to moderate, and for users to follow the rules/report. Since they can’t tell easily from which thread this comment comes from
Threads are not always crossposted with the same context. Example:
These threads are posted in different communities, their comment sections would be very different
Die4Ever@programming.dev 1 year ago
It’s a little bit not-obvious that the top comments are from News@lemmy.world here
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Maybe they should get a header just like all the other communities do for their sets of comments?