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Would this feature be useful? (Duplicate URL alerted across communities and servers). (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago by Seimhe@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I thought it would be good if making a post with a URL alerted me if the same URL has already been posted to another community/ server. Then it could offer to make the body of my post a comment under that post instead.

What do you think, and do any technical people familiar with Lemmy / Piefed / ActivityPub know if suc h a feature is possible without huge overheads?

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[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Lemmy already does tell you this by title, so it would be cool if it did it by URL too

I think the Boost for Lemmy app does this

this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2026
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