Do you wake up on the same snowy day, every day, with Sonny and Cher’s “I got you babe” playing on the clock radio?
probably my biggest gripe with Lemmy right now. Feels like I'm just stuck in a loop.
Submitted 1 year ago by Polar@lemmy.ca to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ptz@dubvee.org 1 year ago
For me, it’s a retro hotel room and “It’s Only Just Begun” by The Carpenters.
Chozo@kbin.social 1 year ago
I suggested an idea to fix this, that I called "thread entanglement". I had suggested it for Kbin specifically, before, but honestly the base Lemmy software could use something like this. I'd love to see some sort of smart merging of duplicate threads like this be possible.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 year ago
Adding this as an issue on the Lemmy GitHub would be a great idea.
Psaldorn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If the title text is the same it should just squash them, show you all the options on further inspection.
wjrii@kbin.social 1 year ago
This is my preferred option. Requires no underlying change to ActivityPub or federation, just makes the end user experience more pleasant until/unless communities gain more distinct personalities that would result in fewer reposts.
realitista@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Better yet, it should semi-force you to post as a crosspost which would remove the duplicate from end user feeds. Especially if there’s already a post on another community with a matching content link.
CheezyWeezle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My biggest gripe right now is how often everything goes down. About 6 times out of 10 when I go to load anything on lemmy it is down, confirmed on lemmy-world.statuspage.io
jao@lemy.lol 1 year ago
lemmy.world got too big IMO. So I ended up switching to a different instance. If all the users were to evenly distribute themselves across many instances, and not just have everyone on like 1-3 different instances, I think that the issues with unavailability, lag, and whatnot would be much less.
Laticauda@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I had the most issues on my lemmy.world account. I’ve had less issues on my lemmy.ca account, maybe try making an account on a different instance? World has been getting attacked a lot lately.
Cr4yfish@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m actually trying to solve this issue on my own Lemmy app. It automatically switches instances when the requested one is down. Works only in the Feed right now and, of course, accounts are still instance-bound - but I will fix that soon.
popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
After I went to my local instance of lemmy, sdf.org, I have literally zero issue
sicjoke@lemmy.world 1 year ago
considering hopping onto a different instance because of this. Lemmy.world in particular always seems to be experiencing issues.
Caoldence222@lemmy.world 1 year ago
lemmon.zerobytes.monster/index
it’s not just you, the stats bear it out. LW has the worst uptime of any major instance. 92% so far this month according to their own monitoring and worse on bad days. They see a lot of load and have not scaled up enough to resolve it, nor have they restricted user signups at all to spread out new users across the lemmyverse. Seems like a very growth oriented mindset, which I don’t love to see spreading to the fediverse.
BrisaLuna@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I am most comfortable with lemmy.world because of their old reddit formatting. It made the transition easy. Call it lazy or low brain, but maybe if other instances will also do the old format, they might get more users shifting to their instances too?
Still trying to learn here, but so far I find myself jumping back to old.lemmy.world simple because of familiarity.
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
I personally wouldn’t use one the larger instances, as they’re usually going to have the most issues (more complex deployments, longer maintenance downtimes, etc)
7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Keep in mind you can always block communities you’re not interested in to prevent them from appearing in any feed. I’ve already blocked plenty of communities to make the “All” post list digestable.
amio@kbin.social 1 year ago
There are so many though. I'm trying to prune politics from my feed but people keep making new goddamn magazines and then crossposting everything everywhere anyway.
Delphia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You can also block users, which is super helpful with people that go on crossposting rampages.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Could you please share the blocked part of the JSON you get with github.com/CMahaff/lasim ?
That could probably help new joiners.
7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Why would I? The list of communities which one wants to block is very personal / individual. My preferences what I don’t want to engage with is purely mine and cannot be transferred to all other users. So any user should make their own decisions what communities they want to block, instead of blindly copying someone elses and potentially missing out on content they would enjoy.
Thisisforfun@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s just like browsing r/all on reddit. We did it, Lemmy!
InternetTubes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My biggest gripe is getting a reply, clicking to see the context of the reply, and getting the same reply thrown back at me with no context.
Polar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Ya I’m having that issue too. I posted about it here: lemmy.ca/comment/1871582
Sync for Lemmy seems to be the only app that actually shows me context right now.
Candelestine@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I agree, the cross-posting gets annoying. Why do people insist that everyone who is interested in a certain topic needs to participate in their post, so it has to go on every community?
People did not do that on reddit. They just made one post and waited for interaction.
fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
there were tons of cross posts on reddit, it’s just that they usually weren’t visible on the front page as such
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The cross posts on reddit were terrible.
Same fucking post on awww, upliftingnews, mildlyinteresting, bustypetite, etc
Lith@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
People did this constantly on Reddit, I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I’m all in favor of several communities on the same topic as long as they offer different content
Having the same link or picture shared across several communities is just detrimental to the user experience.
Also, to avoid this, maybe we should have core communities for a specific topic (for instance unions), and then they can fork if there is a need (e.g. what happened with !android@lemmy.world and !android@lemdro.id
OP, as of now, I would just suggest to block communities that are too similar.
I only have one tech community as they seemed to all be the same anyway, I’ll reassess in a few weeks if I need to select the other one.
hitmyspot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The problem with blocking a community is if you block the one that eventually takes off, you miss out. I am just accepting it for now and assume it will sort itself out.
Another option would be to upvote one and downvote the other, to help speed the process up.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Your last point might be interesting, but imagine if someone else is doing the opposite, you guys would be evening out ha ha
kresten@feddit.dk 1 year ago
I just follow them all, and get all the content. Big W
coconutxyz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
On one hand yes annoying but on the other I’m grateful for their effort in generating post
ryannathans@lemmy.fmhy.net 1 year ago
Don’t sort by new? Top on a short time frame is probably a better choice
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I sort by active and this is how my feed looks. Except I see the duplicates every 5-6 posts. But I see the same ~10 posts for maybe 100+ with a few non-duplicates sprinkled in. Same with sorting by hot.
It’s pretty bad
Polar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
This is top 6 hours.
Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I get the same thing with active or hot.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Sorting by new or new comments does not usually result in seeing the same post across multiple instances all bunched together like this.
ryannathans@lemmy.fmhy.net 1 year ago
There is sorting by new posts and there is sorting by new comments. By comments is a lot more random/mixed
havokdj@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My biggest gripe is that 3/4th of what I write on here ends in an angry argument, usually somehow about politics (in an area of politics I don’t even GAF about!)
Seriously considering just hopping to another instance.
heavy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Listen, I see from what you said, what your worldview and values are, and I’m here to remind you that they’re wrong.
/s
Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Let me guess, you’re one of those pro-skub people?
havokdj@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No clue what that means so probably not
shottymcb@lemm.ee 1 year ago
[deleted]Historical_General@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The lemmydotworld admins are preemptively defederating from far left hexbear. Defederation is supposed to be the last resort. The ironic thing is, only a few weeks ago we had redditors calling Lemmy devs tankies and telling people not to come here lol. And now we’re losing potential users because of paranoia from lemmydotworld admins.
Clowns everywhere.
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
TIL there’s people that still use Yahoo News.
mlc894@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Hey, free news content sans paywall and an app that does only what it says on the tin. What’s not to like?
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Huh, I just looked. I swear it was more cancerous before.
DasRubberDuck@feddit.de 1 year ago
Seems like we could use federation on the community level
popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Wef err Voyager has a thing that will block things that you have already looked at.
That might help
Yoz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Give it some time my dude. Devs are working to fix these issues. Eventually we will get there
ronin@lemmy.cafe 1 year ago
Yeah, missing active various support communities.
suckmyspez@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I just block the accounts that do this. Make it much nicer to browse 👌
kresten@feddit.dk 1 year ago
@cyu@sh.itjust.works stop cross-posting to the same communities, there’s no karma!
csm10495@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
This bugs me too. There are various GitHub issues about grouping communities. As far as I know, no one has gotten to 'em yet.
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I appreciate the poster sharing the article to multiple communities/instances, but would be nice if the Lemmy front-end could batch these (maybe will a link like “appears in a, b, c …”) if the user + link + title all hashed out to the same thing.
LambLeeg@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah, I made a filter for the canvas and a bunch of other things. That’s hella annoying. Feels exactly as Reddit, but now I can filter it
sixtynine@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
I only subscribe to the usually most popular community in a subject I’m interested in for this reason
Etterra@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well maybe if you’d block that furry shit you could at least feel better about it.
Laticauda@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Top 6 hours or top 12 hours seems to have a better range of options. Try those.
botorfj@lemmy.world 1 year ago
beeper spotted
Amilo159@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Agreed, this issue really kills the fun of browsing.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There was talk about the ability to link communities in the future, so that dupes show up as merged. No idea what happened of that.
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 year ago
If people would use the lemmy cross posting functionality it would only show up once.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Indeed, unfortunately most of the mobile apps don’t implement that feature
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 year ago
I think ljdawson is working on it for Sync. I assume that’s why he held off on implementing posting.
4am@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I didn’t even realize this was a thing already. The apps need to add this ASAP, seems like a pretty vital part of making the experience smooth.
Reborn2966@feddit.it 1 year ago
if people do cross posts, will i see the post only once?
will lemmy detect that i can see the original + 3 crossposts and show me only the original?
this is more like a feature request, i don’t think we are there yet.
we could also aggregate and sync comments across cross postings, so that the post is really just one, but posted in more than one community.
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 year ago
Yes, this is how it works in lemmy-ui. In this following example someone posted to !technology@beehaw.org and I pressed the cross-post button and cross-posted it to !firefox@lemmy.ml:
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And if you cross post it to more then one there will be just a list of them.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
On the website, it does
nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Man Memmy needs that ASAP…
twistedtxb@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Oh wow I didn’t know such thing existed on Lemmy