I see it very often, especially with Linux, Libre Culture and Open Source, that one and the same is discussed in 2 or more threads. In one a consent was found, in another not, and in the third are only posted links to one of the other discussions. So I asked myself, what if a cross post would only link to the original instead of creating an own entry?

  • kevincox@lemmy.ml
    6·
    3 years ago

    I think it would make sense to keep cross-posts different threads. Different communities have different styles, norms and rules for the discussion.

    However I think it would be amazing to have the option to:

    • View all comments about a URL on one page.
    • View all comments from my communities on one page.

    Basically I think the underlying implementation should be kept as it currently is, but I think the UI could allow the user to visually merge these together when desired (maybe by default).

    I think the main complication is that if you are viewing the merged view you need to decide which community to leave the comment on (or support cross-posting comments???) so it is a slight overhead for those who prefer to see things merged. But overall I think this would be a better solution.

  • Tmpod@lemmy.pt
    4·
    3 years ago

    I think that would be nice, but I don’t know how feasible it would be in terms of AP. Curious to see what dessalines or nutomic say about it.

  • southerntofu@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 years ago

    That’s a great idea! I’ve often wondered about it myself. The main question is about UX and how to enable to filter/post comments by communities. Slightly exaggerated example: if there’s an article published on a conservative instance on a topic that could be of interest to a community around here, i think it makes sense to enable to merge discussions, but i think per-community discussions still make sense.

    This raises the question of how to deal with this in the UI when crossposting/commenting/viewing.

    • nutomic@lemmy.mlM
      5·
      3 years ago

      I suppose there could be options to crosspost as copy (current behaviour) or as link to the existing post (as requested here).