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submitted 1 year ago by sunbeam60@lemmy.one to c/wefwef@lemmy.world

Three posts, across the fediverse, point to exactly the same link, with the same post text.

I would just love it if wefwef could collapse these into one (“Seen in 3 communities”) and then collapse the comments into one mega-thread.

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[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

When you cross-post something this happens. But in the background the Lemmy web-ui is just comparing the URL and if it is exactly the same it treats them as a cross-post.

[-] nitefox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There is quite a chance for this to backfire isn't there? For example if user 1 posts an article with the title "This is bad oh no what do you think" and user 2 with "This is what happened [...]", there shouldn't really be a merge just cause it's an identical link imo

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

It lists all the different versions / communities below the post, so I don't really think this is much of an issue.

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