Lemmy

14545 readers

1 users here now

Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.

For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

nutomic@lemmy.ml

[Suggestion] Duplicate URLs should be grouped together into singular posts on the front page (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ech@lemmy.ca to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

18 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I'm not sure if it's a growth issue, or if I'm just getting tired of it personally, but the spamming of identical URLs over multiple instances is getting out of hand. Even worse when I block one post for whatever reason, only to have to repeat the task upteen number of times because one or more users (usually one) "helpfully" post the link in every tangentially related community.

Instead of that, it'd be better to have the front page (all/local/subscribed) automatically group any post of an identical URL into a single "post". In essence, each new post of that URL would create a separate discussion thread to the given community, and each thread could be listed under the "main" post similar to how crossposts currently are instead of cluttering up the front page.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Here are the posts on lemmy.ca, they both have the same image url and are also shown as crossposts:

So these should be grouped together without any problem, not sure why it would fail.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think I can check that now, but I can say that it wasn't working like that when I added the edit about it. When they were still up on the All feed, I had run across and hidden the first post, then a few pages later, I saw the second post on it's own. If I see it happen again, I will make note of it.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yes I don't doubt that you were having this problem, another post was also complaining about it a few days ago. It's just that I cant think of any reason why this would happen if the image urls are identical.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I wish I could help out more. I will pass on if I run into the issue again. Thanks for looking into it.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just found one. I've hidden this link twice now, but it's popped up yet again under a third post.

URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/16/norway-rails-against-enshittifcation-deliberate-tech-deterioration

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Found it now, crosspost detection actually happens in the frontend. It only works if posts have the same url and are shown on the same page.

Opened an issue, but it will likely take a while to fix.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6413

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

That's great! Thanks again.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

So the problem only occurs after you use "Hide Post"? That might be part of the problem, I suppose that deduplication only considers posts that are visible to you. Though I cant find the corressponding code right now to confirm it. Best if you open an issue in the lemmy repo.