Fediverse memes

That is a bad idea. Cross posts aren't a special type of post. Your instance simply checks the URLs of posts and finds other posts with the same URL. That is how cross posting works in Lemmy.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/6f45f801cc0582b14360fd52737cbad3a98b7250/crates/api/api_crud/src/post/read.rs#L90

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  // Fetch the cross_posts
  let cross_posts = if let Some(url) = &post_view.post.url {
    SearchCombinedQuery {
      search_term: Some(url.inner().as_str().into()),
      post_url_only: Some(true),
      type_: Some(SearchType::Posts),
      ..Default::default()
    }

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Piefed seems to do the same thing

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new_cross_posts = db.session.query(Post).filter(Post.id != self.id, Post.url == self.url, Post.deleted == False,
                                                        Post.status > POST_STATUS_REVIEWING).order_by(desc(Post.id)).limit(limit)

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I also found this weird hardcoded ap id in the function that "calculates" cross posts in piefed for some reason:

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if self.community.ap_profile_id == 'https://lemmy.zip/c/dailygames':
            # daily posts to this community (e.g. to https://travle.earth/usa or https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html) shouldn't be treated as cross-posts
            return


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!dailygames@lemmy.zip

they do though. Edit: Ohhh, like it redirects there too not just links there

Yeah that would be a cool feature to offer the user when they submit

But the post on the big instance is not helping the small instance grow, which is why they put it there. Over-centralization isn't desirable.

Walter: “UNSCHEDULED OFF-WORLD REPOSTING!”

I’m on PieFed we already have that.

The goal is to help smaller comms and instances get exposure and avoid everything being on .world. This does not help with that.