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Lemmy app that merges comments for the same article URL?
(lemmy.world)
When scrolling all it's common to see the same article posted several times, each from a different community and most with zero comments.
Is there an app that will recognise the post URLs, show that post only once in the scroll but display all the comments, perhaps with each having the community name prepended?
I usually only read the comments so there's a lot of useless scrolling if skipping zero comment posts.
Alternatively, a filter that only shows posts with comments.
Mlem dev here.
Edit: whoops, I feel for Lemmy’s labeling. TIL Lemmy doesn’t have a real concept of a crosspost, and instead proxies the concept by matching urls.
~~This feature, as suggested, presents a fundamental technical problem: frontend clients load posts a page at a time, and so are only aware of the posts you’ve already scrolled past and the ~20-50 posts ahead in the feed. It’s therefore not possible to find all posts with the same URL and aggregate their comments into a single chain under the first occurrence of the URL, at least not without loading infeasible amounts of data ahead of time.~~
We have this feature planned! our comments view also currently shows the list of crossposts and indicates the number of comments on each one.
That’s a good idea, we’ll add it to a future build.
The default web interface for Lemmy does list other communities a URL was posted to (even if not crossposted), though I'm not sure how it does this. Might there be some way to tap into that system?