When scrolling all it’s common to see the same article posted several times, each from a different community and most with zero comments.

Is there an app that will recognise the post URLs, show that post only once in the scroll but display all the comments, perhaps with each having the community name prepended?

I usually only read the comments so there’s a lot of useless scrolling if skipping zero comment posts.

Alternatively, a filter that only shows posts with comments.

  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 days ago

    It’s therefore not possible to find all posts with the same URL

    The default web interface for Lemmy does list other communities a URL was posted to (even if not crossposted), though I’m not sure how it does this. Might there be some way to tap into that system?

    • Eric@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 days ago

      Do you have an example of a post where lemmy-ui does this? I’d love to look into how they implement it but I can’t find an example of the feature in action.

        • Eric@lemmy.ml
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          2 days ago

          Thanks! I totally fell for the “crosspost” label—I didn’t realize Lemmy just uses that term to mean “posts with the same link.”

          The merged crossposts feature we have planned is actually exactly what you’re asking for then, since that’s what Lemmy means by a crosspost.

          • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            since that’s what Lemmy means by a crosspost

            Somewhat confusingly, Lemmy also has a “crosspost” button which seems to do the following:

            • Bring the user to the “create post” interface
            • Autopopulate the Title and URL fields
            • If and only if the original post contains body text, autopopulate the body field with a link to the original Lemmy post and quote the body text from the original post.

            The user then chooses which community to post to.