CrossTalk finds duplicated posts across different feeds, such as Mastodon, Bluesky, Blog posts, etc. and automatically muffles, or minimizes the duplicate one(s) in your timeline.

It's a great way of keeping you from having to read similar posts from the same author over and over again. It's a very powerful feature of Tapestry but it has limitations and can never be perfect.

Crosstalk limitations & info:

• Crosstalk identifies the first post chronologically as the "original" and marks the later items as the duplicates. This is done for simplicity's sake but also because authors tend to post first on their platform of choice so we use this as the preferred post.

• Crosstalk will only identify and muffle posts across different feeds. If an author posts the same item from within the same feed more than once, Crosstalk won't flag them. This can happen if an author publishes their initial post and then decides to quickly delete it and post another very similar post (to correct a typo or add a small bit of info). You may see both posts in the timeline (due to caching) and it will appear like there are duplicates Crosstalk has not identified, but it's really that the initial post was deleted.

• Posts must be made within 30 minutes of each other for Crosstalk to consider them as the "same" post.

• Changes in a post's meta data, attached URLs or media ALT text may cause Crosstalk to find them not similar enough to be muffled. We're constantly working to improve the algorithm, but when enough differences are present between posts it's just safer not to apply Crosstalk to it. 

Adjusting or Disabling Crosstalk:

Crosstalk is enabled app-wide by default and will constantly scan your timelines for duplicates and muffle them. If you want to turn Crosstalk off for any reason, or remove Crosstalk items completely from the timeline instead of minimizing them, you can do so by going to:

Settings > Behavior > Crosstalk