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[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

Not all apps show crossposts yet, or don't do so prominently. And a post going big in one community, can cannibalize all the other cross-posts due to de-duplication, meaning only one post gets the lions share of votes.

I've since changed my posting tool to actually make the various cross-posts at different times, instead of all at once.

This works well with my communities as art isn't time sensitive, and it's also kind of an excuse to re-post something a couple times, so different people can see it.

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago

Not all apps show crossposts yet, or don’t do so prominently. And a post going big in one community, can cannibalize all the other cross-posts due to de-duplication, meaning only one post gets the lions share of votes.

Very good point

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It might be interesting if upvoting crossposted content also upvoted the cross-posts, if their timestamps are close. Like 12 hours maybe.

For now, better UIs around cross-posts will help.

Working on this for Thunder.

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago

Oh nice, I didn't know you were contributing to Thunder, that's cool!

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but haven't for a while. I was very active at the start, but got busy with life and other projects.

One of which is another Lemmy related little thing: lemmytrixposter

Also set up @saucechan@ani.social

Hopefully getting into another stint of Thunder contributions now. I got dismiss read, the FAB, sidebars, and a bunch more stuff done last time.

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago

lemmytrixposter

This is neat!

[-] Mr_Mofu 2 points 11 months ago

I guess thats why Boost automatically attaches a "Crossposted from X" when crossposting, just to make sure

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

That's a behaviour inherited from the webUI.

It doesn't actually do anything. I usually remove it because it's just redundant, and the link takes you off-instance 99% of the time. Also it only works in one direction. The proper cross post links appear on both/all three/or more posts.

The webUI shows cross-posts as little links in the post info, and some clients do something similar.

Photon handles it well, and Thunder has had basic support for a while. But I'm looking to make it very easy to hop between several posts by displaying some details about each one in a list, like votes, comment count, and post date.

[-] Mr_Mofu 2 points 11 months ago

I see, i think ill keep it on for the time being tho, making sure that all is atleast somewhat interconnected universally probably aint a bad idea

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

You might replace it with a community mention, those at least are now clickable in pretty much all clients.

[-] Mr_Mofu 2 points 11 months ago
[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

One of these !touch_fluffy_tail@ani.social

And that's not markdown btw. It's just the name in plaintext with the !, which becomes clickable in basically all clients now.

Eventually something similar should exist for exact posts and comments.

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