What do you notice about the comments on this post? https://piefed.social/post/555259

The post was made in the [email protected] community and other posts linking to the same news article were made in [email protected] and in [email protected]. 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.

  • BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de
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    1 month ago

    What happens when three different users post libks to the same article? Or when the test is different? Basically how do you match these posts?

    • Rimu@piefed.socialOP
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      1 month ago

      They are matched by the url of where the post links to. So this only works for posts that have a url, not discussion or image posts.

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        1 month ago

        Ok so exactly how mbin spots cross posts at the moment. But combining the comment sections is a cool idea. Obviously requires your server to be subscribed to the different communities, but still cool 👍

            • Rimu@piefed.socialOP
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              1 month 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.

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                1 month 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.

        • Rimu@piefed.socialOP
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          1 month ago

          Those comments get merged into one tree. I think, didn’t actually test that.