Is anyone else noticing repeating posts when continuously scrolling?
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.
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.
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.
I’m seeing the same thing as OP. This is definitely a bug. There will be a gap in posts, like a “missing” post and then I’ll see the same exact post(s) come up from the same community as before.
This is on the TestFlight version which the devs have acknowledged is a little broke right now.
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?
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.
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.
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.
There are many instances of posts being posted to the same named communities on different instances - like aww@lemmy.world and aww@lemmy.ml. I haven’t personally seen actual duplicates on Memmys side yet. If you find a way to reproduce reliably let me know.
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?