I mean, I get annoyed when I see the same thing posted to two communities back to back, but 5 is ridiculous and extremely poor fediquite.

Edit: Seems the poster is some kind of spam bot. As one commenter pointed out, they seem to have spammed this to any community with “music” in the name. And it’s more than shows up in the screenshot. A LOT more.

  • stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    12·
    7 months ago

    It should be combined into one post appearing in all communities it’s crossposted to IMO. Maybe also with only one comment section under it, but that would bring some problems.

  • chickenf622@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    7 months ago

    They posted it to any community that had “music” in the name regardless of if it fit. Either a spam bot or those annoying people who think more is always better when it comes to getting your name out there.

  • strawberry@kbin.run
    111·
    7 months ago

    mbin combines crossposts into one thing, so doesn’t bother me. but even if I saw it multiple times, so what? scroll past

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOPEnglish
      21·
      7 months ago

      Lemmy does that in the post view, but not in the feed. The API doesn’t provide xpost data, and the UI has to wrangle those which is imperfect and only works if the posts are retrieved in the same fetch.

      I do usually scroll past, but when there’s half a page of them, I get more than mildly annoyed lol.

        • Andrew@piefed.social
          2·
          7 months ago

          Something’s not quite working btw. It’s tricky to chat about because various front-ends auto-convert absolute links to instance-specific ones, so I’ll surround them in code blocks and hopefully they’ll leave 'em alone. Anyway: the fedi-link for this post is https://dubvee.org/post/1007192 which is where it is, but if you try to visit that with a browser you’re re-directed to https://tesseract.dubvee.org/post/lemmy.world/1007192 which isn’t correct - it should either not re-direct you or re-direct you to the correct URL at https://tesseract.dubvee.org/post/lemmy.world/14138451

          • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOPEnglish
            1·
            7 months ago

            I don’t want to take over the comments with this, lol. I’ve got a community you can post that in if we want to discuss it further. Community: https://dubvee.org/c/tesseract

            I think it’s a glitch with the guest instance being set and unable to determine the post ID on the remote instance. When I clicked the first link (https://dubvee.org/post/1007192) in incognito mode, it took me to the expected post (https://tesseract.dubvee.org/post/dubvee.org/1007192) . When I switched guest instance to Lemmy World, and retried the same original link, it did redirect to the wrong link (using the post ID from my instance on LW which doesn’t exist).

            Yeah, I should not have it redirect when you’re browsing as guest since it requires an authenticated call to resolveObject to determine the correct post ID on the remote instance. Should work fine if you’re logged in, though. I’ll address that in 1.3.0.

            Thanks for pointing that out!

            Edit/update: I believe I have this fixed in the 1.3.0 latest dev branch.

  • wagesj45@kbin.run
    4·
    7 months ago

    The point of federation is to connect different servers. Lemmy is not one website. It is many different websites that happen to share data. A link being posted to multiple websites is fine.

    Maybe if you’re seeing too many duplicate links, you’re subscribed to too many duplicate magazines/subs/servers.

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOPEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Maybe if you’re seeing too many duplicate links, you’re subscribed to too many duplicate magazines/subs/servers.

      That’s exactly the point. Most people are, too.

  • Oisteink@feddit.nlEnglish
    31·
    7 months ago

    There’s nothing wrong with posting the same post to several groups, as long as it’s a text post and not a link. I will also vote down or block people posting just a link

  • kia@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    It would be nice if we could specify a priority list for communities (each user creates their own). If a post is crossposted to multiple communities, only the one posted to the community with the highest priority gets shown on the feed.

  • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    They posted it to connectasong which is especially annoying. We have VERY specific posting rules over there! It’s a game!