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Reddit repost bots are ruining Lemmy.
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this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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It's all over my front page. Even the few that I am subscribed to, I kinda need to be because of the fragmentation. There are 3 main Android communities. If I only pick one, I miss news, but if I pick all 3, I get a ton of duplicate news.
Lemmy is flawed. They need to publish an update where Lemmy condenses these posts into one post with a drop down where you can open and choose which instance you want to view it from. Shouldn't be hard, and to prevent any issues, allow the user to condense a certain time period. For example, allow me to condense all posts that are the same URL that were posted in the past 6 or 24 hours. Make the most popular post the "main" one, and have a drop down to view the other ones.
I know it's possible because I used to have an extension to check if any URL I was currently on was posted to Reddit, and if it was, show me every single instance of it. It was useful to see exactly where the news article I was viewing was posted on, or the YouTube video, etc.
I had very high hopes for Lemmy, but the fact I've been here for a month before the Reddit API changes, I have seen the clusterfuck that Lemmy has become. There's no way new users are going to even sign up when the front page is repost city.
The way i see it is that it is okay to miss some things. I only sub to one android community (lemdroid), one tech community (lemmy world), one privacy community, etc. I am okay with possibly missing the first post about a thing because of this. It helps a lot. Another thing i do is use thunder to sort by "top today" once a day on the all feed to see what everyone thinks is important.
Unrelated, but I don't sub to lemdroid because it's run by the same toxic moderators of the subreddit.
Just thought that might be useful info for anyone who didn't know.
This works for the individual (as long as they concede to knowing missing content). But if everyone does this it kinda destroys lemmy because you never get the critical mass of users in any one community to have meaningful discussion.
Which highlights the issue of your proposal for me, that I'm not concerned about missing "content" in the form of links. I don't like missing out on conversations. But when they are fragmented as they are now with so few people in each, discussion ends up quite limited as well. If people just silence one or more "duplicate" communities to reduce the issue of repeat content then it ensures discussions remain fragmented as well.
I think one community becomes the dominate like on reddit and others offshoot due to mod differences, community rules, etc. As an example, i am not sure if anxdroid lemdroid is the largest community, but it is run by the r/android mods and i see no issue with how its run so that is the one i sub to. If i ever began to dislike it i might move to android lemmy ml or something.
Hopefully we see it mature this way, and eventually we some primary communities (per subject), with some smaller communities, and the tiny ones just being subsumed by the others.
As the top mod of one of these Android communities, our comm on LW usually isn't super heavy on the news front and I feel our content is generally pretty different than the others, and duplicate news posts happens pretty rarely.