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When scrolling through the main feed eventually I will hit a point where it’s roughly the same 20 or so posts on repeat. The posts might not be in the exact same order and new content will be mixed in.

In Apollo it would eventually hit “the bottom” of the feed and it wouldn’t go any further. This feels like the app is fetching the next posts but without a full page of results it's returning the same posts again and again.

Anyone else seeing this?

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (3 children)

yep, this is happening quite a lot for me

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yep, this is happening quite a lot for me

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yep, this is happening quite a lot for me

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yep, this is happening quite a lot for me

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, this is happening quite a lot for me

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

yep, this is happening quite a lot for me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I’ve noticed this also

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

yep, this is happening quite a lot for me

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, and I waited until this came up a second time to write this lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Why are you being downvoted lol

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

I have been noticing this more and more lately. Also as the gaps between posts gets larger the more posts I see repeated.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have noticed this too. I was very excited to have the “mark read on scroll” option added with the update yesterday.

However, as I am scrolling and marking posts read I have noticed that a lot of the posts that were marked read keep reappearing as unread. Not other instances, but the same posts.

Hard to capture this in the wild, but I will try to get images of this happening.

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

I’m experiencing the same unread issue when marking comments as read to clear out my inbox. Everything just reappears as it was.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbf, lemmy is a smaller community

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

Yeah, I go back and forth between Lemmy and Mastodon for content consumption (and Pixelfed when I want to strictly look at pictures), using Fedilab you can follow hashtags to curate your home feed. Plus you can still read Lemmy posts and comment on them, but a lot of the time you're shown comment replies to a post on your feed with no context until you select it, so it's a little weird in that aspect.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It’s interesting because the same post will have different upvote and comment counts. For example - the “Nilla ready to go for a walk” post in aww.

One post says Lemmy.world and another says Lemmy.ml — so is this the same aww, or two different subs with the same name and the exact same submitter and the exact same content?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

these are different communities with the same post in them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep. It is a weird design decision to allow the exact same community name for two different communities. It’s encouraging cross posting, dilution of community, and repeated duplicate posts in the “All” feed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It’s kind of the entire point of lemmy, it’s decentralized. Nobody can control other instances. There’s nobody “allowing” it including the lemmy devs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t think there’s a problem with having a sub named “aww” and a sub named “awww” or “startrek” and “star_trek” — but I think allowing each instance to create distinctly different subs with the exact same name is problematic for the reasons I previously outlined. It’s not a control issue — it should be built into the system. Just like Usenet and dns servers don’t allow entries with the same name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t think what you’re describing is technically feasible. If it worked how you describe, then when someone makes a community that instance would have to somehow go and ask every single other instance in existence - hey do you have this community name already? We wouldn’t be able to like, keep a database of all the existing communities everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Same! I thought I was losing my mind.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This sounds similar to something I fixed in a different Lemmy app. I think this issue existed in a few other apps too at one point. But basically, It's possible that when you fetch the second page of posts from Lemmy, it can give you a post that was present in the first page fetch. It can also give you chunks of duplicates. Very annoying. But yeah I'm sure it's something that will get addressed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Every instance has its own members and creates its own content. So, for example, a relevant new is posted in multiple instances, thus you see it multiple times. The most common occurrence of duplicate content.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yep, this is happening quite a lot for me

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

Yep, seeing it too, and weird gaps in the feed too.

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

Oh man glad to know I wasn’t going crazy or accidentally scrolling up somehow or that reposts aren’t that bad yet

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

Yeah, the posts are a bit wacky on all too since different instances subscribed to all communities have differing /all posts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This, and after a while I notice I’m getting weird blank spaces in my feed too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes I've been noticing this and unfortunately my brief research into has resulted in no fixes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think this is resolvable without some reworking by the devs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are many instances of posts being posted to the same named communities on different instances - like [email protected] and [email protected]. I haven’t personally seen actual duplicates on Memmys side yet. If you find a way to reproduce reliably let me know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just did a screen recording of the behavior. This happens every time almost every time I browse. What is the best way for you to receive a video showing the repeating posts?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Idk, upload it somewhere and link it here? Or you can make a github issue with it attached

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People from other communities cross post. You need more unique communities on your feed not just memes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I browse All most of the time it still happens and most of the time its not crossposted content

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this is when browsing all. This issue is not related to my personal subscriptions.

I thought it was cross posts at first, but then started checking that it was the same posts from the same communities.

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