I'm just getting familiar with lemmy fediverse and trying to make my way through it after getting out from reddit. I'm trying out liftoff app for android and I'm seeing way more double posts from different instances from same users. Same content from same users on multiple instances. I thought fediverse supposed to, You post in whatever instance you are and it'll be shared among all instances. I'm more confused now.

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[–] AaronIsFab 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you sure you're not on All via Everything? Which would show the version retrieved by lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, beehaw etc as individual rows.

[–] nelrico 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It was on All via Everything. So it shows same posts of different instances as different rows? Now I feel stupid. Sorry for wasting all your time really. Edit: But still I'm wondering why post same content on multiple instances.

[–] psychothumbs 2 points 2 years ago

Yes just like on All on reddit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I do not think this is what happens. At least not for me for the posts I checked. The double / triple posts I currently see on the "frontpage" are all posted in different Communities. The problem (at the moment?) ist that people of different instances create communities with basically the same topic. Like "tech" and "technologie", both are on different instances. Or Games, Gaming or whatever. Now when you create a post, you have to decide in which community you create it. There is currently also no way to crosspost with a single post. So if you want to make sure that people of the tech and the technology community can see your post, you have to post in both communities. And since we now have 2 posts in different communities (also in different instances), they can pop up in the frontpage.

Currently I do not see that there is an easy solution for this. I understand that people are posting the same in different communities to reach the biggest amount of people. Personally I tried to subscribe to all communities that seem to be related and have some activity, but not everyone might do this. Also for newcomers it is not obvious that once you subscribed to let´s say gaming on Beehaw, that they also should subscribe to games on let´s say kbin, so they can read all of this.

As long as there is no way to link communities together or to crosspost (one post that is seen on different communities), I think we have to live with seeing either multiple posts of the same topic (each with their own discussions going on) or stop creating multiple posts, but live with the fast that not everyone interested in it can read it.