Right now, I can see the same link several times on the front page, repeated across different magazines. Here’s an example:

https://i.imgur.com/kgWcskr.png

Is this supposed how it works? If you want to add a link to a magazine, and it’s already added to another, shouldn’t you be able to add the existing one to the new magazine instead of duplicating the link?

  • Otome-chan@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Is this supposed how it works?

    Those are two different users posting in two different communities. So… yes.

    If you want to add a link to a magazine, and it’s already added to another, shouldn’t you be able to add the existing one to the new magazine instead of duplicating the link?

    There’s a few issues with that:

    1. some instances have blocked/defederated from other instances, so not everyone can see the same communities/magazines.

    2. different communities/magazines have different users and different rules. they aren’t just duplicates.

    It just so happens that you are following multiple communities/magazines that have users who decided to share the same link.

    • insomniac_lemon@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      If the same URL/topic is posted in multiple communities, I would like to see that they’re different (like the title and thumbnail) and have a user’s words to frame the discussion (I think that works better here, at least I remember needing to post a comment on a link post on the old site) rather than just the link. Otherwise, I don’t see much value in it (at least while we’re still at a point where low content means this happens commonly).

      Even then, it would be cool to swap different comment sections (link itself, tech take by user 1, etc) easier than an ‘other discussions’ tab.

      • Otome-chan@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Sure. I think it’d be nice if it wasn’t repetitive like that, but you have to remember that while you or we might see 3, not everyone does. They may just get one or the other.

        I do think it’d be handy if kbin had a toggleable feature that works similar to reddit’s “crossposting” where it detects who all shared the same url, and then you can look through the threads. though poor ernest already has a lot on his plate so maybe down the road a bit?