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US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creator

What do you notice about the comments on this post? https://piefed.social/post/555259

The post was made in the news@lemmy.world community and other posts linking to the same news article were made in technology@lemmy.world and in askusa@discuss.online. 3 different posts in 3 different communities.

PieFed de-duplicates them and only shows the post once in the timeline and when viewing the post all the comments on those 3 posts are shown in one place.

The fragmentation problem is solved.

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  • What happens when three different users post libks to the same article? Or when the test is different? Basically how do you match these posts?

    • They are matched by the url of where the post links to. So this only works for posts that have a url, not discussion or image posts.

      • Ok so exactly how mbin spots cross posts at the moment. But combining the comment sections is a cool idea. Obviously requires your server to be subscribed to the different communities, but still cool 👍

        • Yes we had a lot of inspiration from Mbin for this one.

          • So that's why cross-post won't be available everywhere ? Only certain use case ?

            • Yes, url is the only reliable way I could think of to match posts.

              For image posts we could use a hash of the image data. But image cross-posts are not common so it doesn't seem urgent.

              • You could add linking to the same post, eg crossposting, to the criteria.

                The urge to switch my server to piefed grows bigger every day.

              • Okay, thank a lot i understand better. Perfect. :)

                We use crosspost for english meme however a multi-meme community will solve it. If we regroup them in a topic, we won't need crosspost.

                I wanted to use it for Peertube. The only problem i see is that [comment on a crosspost] won't post comment on the peertube video.

                And if we comment their video, that would solve peertube problem : they have no comments on their video.

      • what happens when there's 2 different posts in the same community with the same URL, example:

        https://programming.dev/post/8880813

        https://programming.dev/post/1721399

        (I can't find a more recent example right now)

        • Those comments get merged into one tree. I think, didn't actually test that.

          • This is or at least was a problem with cross-posts in the same community in Lemmy as well. I think now Lemmy just prevents posts with the same URL to be counted as crossposts when they are in the same community.

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