Three posts, across the fediverse, point to exactly the same link, with the same post text.
I would just love it if wefwef could collapse these into one (“Seen in 3 communities”) and then collapse the comments into one mega-thread.
Three posts, across the fediverse, point to exactly the same link, with the same post text.
I would just love it if wefwef could collapse these into one (“Seen in 3 communities”) and then collapse the comments into one mega-thread.
This would be my dream. My biggest hangup about the fediverse is the duplicates on different communities and instances
I think even if nothing is intentionally done about it, it will get better. A dominant community will emerge, and other communities will evolve to have their own unique quirks. We’re still in a kind of wild phase where every community is trying to find its place.
That said, some kind of multi community organ6would be a very welcome feature.
An example within Reddit.
There are 5 different subs. Freefolk, Oldfreefolk and GameofThrones, asoiaf(A Song of Ice and Fire), pureasoiaf. All on the same subject matter.
Each has an active community serving a different need.
For that to happen though, the discoverability of communities needs to be better. Right now, searching for communities shows the number of people who are subscribed to it from your own instance, and not the true user count.
Integrating the functionality of lemmyverse.net into lemmy like in this github issue would fix that and needs to be done asap; it’s probably the biggest hurdle for newcomers