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Hide Duplicate Crossposts? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by sirfancy@lemmy.world to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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Is there a way to hide posts that have identical titles on identical sibling communities? My feed gets cluttered really fast when I'm subbed to a big community on two different instances because people often crosspost. I'm tempted to leave one, but I don't want to miss anything.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems like an inelegant solution to a broader issue.

[–] sirfancy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you have any suggestions for a better one? I'm all ears, but the solution definitely isn't "hey guys stop crossposting". Any other solution would require structural refactoring of Lemmy, and changes like that are not easy. I saw a post talking about combining sibling communities, but that would get very messy very fast. This solution is pretty elegant imo. Just a checkbox that says "I prefer posts from my main instance, hide any crossposts" would be perfect. No one has to subscribe to sibling communities either; if you're fine sticking to one, then the issue doesn't apply.

[–] GuinnessChocolates@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I thought Lemmy already supported smart crossposting? You make one post, and then use the crosspost button (which isn't in Sync yet I don't think) and then you just have one post in your feed with a little link on it to the crossposts.

Or did I imagine that?

I guess it doesn't do anything for people just posting the same thing twice to different communities.

[–] fmu@geddit.social 1 points 1 year ago

!remindme 3 days

[–] Steve@communick.news 0 points 1 year ago

But then you're going to miss the conversation on the other community.