Ok so this is likely one of my wierder experiences with the fediverse and is a bit of a story that ends with something wierd with https://piefed.social/topic/chilling/comics?sort=new&layout=list - So to sorta start this off I rarely post but had taken to posting a comic I like called devils panties to comicstrips@lemmy.world. One day when I clicked on replies to the comic I was getting 404 pages and I could not find the comic anymore. There was no notification or anything that it was removed but I checked the sidebar rules and it did not seem to break any. So I posted again and the same thing came back. I suspected that things can be removed without notice or such or just maybe something was breaking so posted to comics@lemmy.ml and that went fine. I changed to posting to comics@lemmy.ml but then noticed that the comic was being posted by someone else to comicstrips@lemmy.world. It did not show up greyed so it presumably was not a bot. I figured I would bow out as I was going to stop posting once I got a job as when working I tend to not be able to really get to anything even small like this (im not a good waker upper and I tend to be toast after work). The next day though no post was done by the other user so late before I went to bead I did the lemmy.ml post and one hour later it appeared in lemmy.world. Its been pretty consistantly one hour after. Anyway the whole thing made me feel pretty wierd but then today its sorta on another level. When perusing https://piefed.social/topic/chilling/comics?sort=new&layout=list I see the duplicates the user does to lemmy.world but I don’t see my original posts to lemmy.ml but I do see another comic posted to lemmy.ml and if I go directly to comics@lemmy.ml I see my post. Anyone have any idea whats going on???

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I mean I definately post first as it seems to key off my post and replicates it about an hour later. So it acts like a bot but it does not get greyed on my view which is supposed to do that with bots. Not sure why mine would not appear in the topic feed though while appearing in the community feed I posted to. Previously I would see the duplicates as I scrolled through the topics.

    • freamon@preferred.socialEnglish
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      8 days ago

      There’s a good chance that the person has automated the activity (it certainly doesn’t appear to be done with any thought), but they’re technically not a bot.

      It’s a relatively new feature, but PieFed merges up crossposts that it sees into one post - whether the post you see within a topic is yours or not will depend on the sort type - there’s a ‘layers’ icon beneath relevant posts, and clicking that can get you to the other posts if the visible one isn’t the one you want.

        • freamon@preferred.socialEnglish
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          8 days ago

          If you imagine what it would look like without the merging, the one shown would be the one nearest the top of the screen - so if you’re sorting by ‘New’, then it’ll be the newest, by ‘Top’ and it’ll be the most upvoted, by ‘Active’ then the most active. Because of how much LW dominates, it’ll pretty much always be that one.