cross-posted from: piefed.social/post/538685
No more duplicate posts
One of the things that the recent addition of the Feeds feature highlighted was how many cross-posts / duplicate posts there are. When you display posts from linux@lemmy.world, linux@programming.dev, linux@lemmy.ml, etc all the cross-posts make it get repetitive, really fast. The same thing happens on the home feed too although it’s a bit less obvious because there’s a wider range of subjects involved.
Except now, it doesn’t, because PieFed de-duplicates your feed! And your home page, and your topics. Attached to this post is a screenshot showing how it works out - an article posted to 7 different places is only shown once despite me having joined most of those communities.
We’re still figuring out whether it’s a good idea to merge all the comments from all the cross-posts into one page and how to do that in a way that respects the different culture/rules in the communities that the posts were made in. It’s a tricky UX and social question.
I’ve held off on adding a cross-post function to PieFed until now but it’ll be added soon.
gon@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Every time I hear about PieFed it’s because a feature that Lemmy should have was already implemented on there…
ladel@feddit.uk 1 week ago
This seems like such a useful feature and I hope lemmy brings it. What else does piefed do?
gon@lemm.ee 1 week ago
As is mentioned in the post, PieFed has Feeds. They’re really cool! There’s also the topics system, which is great if you want to browse specific categories without necessarily focusing on any one given community.
ALso… KEYWORD FILTERING! Super cool.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Let’s you block a whole instance including users.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
feddit.uk/post/25659591
Suoko@feddit.it 1 week ago
Python development is fast, everybody knows that. It lets you focus on features with slightly degraded performances