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.

  • RimuOP
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    65 days ago

    Yes we had a lot of inspiration from Mbin for this one.

    • Snoopy
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      4 days ago

      So that’s why cross-post won’t be available everywhere ? Only certain use case ?

      • RimuOP
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        34 days ago

        Yes, url is the only reliable way I could think of to match posts.

        For image posts we could use a hash of the image data. But image cross-posts are not common so it doesn’t seem urgent.

        • Björn Tantau
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          34 days ago

          You could add linking to the same post, eg crossposting, to the criteria.

          The urge to switch my server to piefed grows bigger every day.

        • Snoopy
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          14 days ago

          Okay, thank a lot i understand better. Perfect. :)

          We use crosspost for english meme however a multi-meme community will solve it. If we regroup them in a topic, we won’t need crosspost.

          I wanted to use it for Peertube. The only problem i see is that [comment on a crosspost] won’t post comment on the peertube video.

          And if we comment their video, that would solve peertube problem : they have no comments on their video.