I’m not sure if it’s a growth issue, or if I’m just getting tired of it personally, but the spamming of identical URLs over multiple instances is getting out of hand. Even worse when I block one post for whatever reason, only to have to repeat the task upteen number of times because one or more users (usually one) “helpfully” post the link in every tangentially related community.
Instead of that, it’d be better to have the front page (all/local/subscribed) automatically group any post of an identical URL into a single “post”. In essence, each new post of that URL would create a separate discussion thread to the given community, and each thread could be listed under the “main” post similar to how crossposts currently are instead of cluttering up the front page.
Just found one. I’ve hidden this link twice now, but it’s popped up yet again under a third post.
URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/16/norway-rails-against-enshittifcation-deliberate-tech-deterioration
Found it now, crosspost detection actually happens in the frontend. It only works if posts have the same url and are shown on the same page.
Opened an issue, but it will likely take a while to fix.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6413
That’s great! Thanks again.
So the problem only occurs after you use “Hide Post”? That might be part of the problem, I suppose that deduplication only considers posts that are visible to you. Though I cant find the corressponding code right now to confirm it. Best if you open an issue in the lemmy repo.