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How would you feel about having the ability to merge communities across instances? (lemmy.ml)
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So let's take this actual example: There's [email protected] and [email protected]. They talk about the same thing, but are treated by the current federation implementation as separate instances.

How would you feel if there was a moderation feature to import another federated instance's community into your own, so that the posts from the other instance automatically show up in the same feed? That way, you only have to subscribe to one community on one instance, but you get content from multiple instances. I'm not talking about crossposting or mirroring/duplicating posts between communities, only displaying the posts from another instance the community's home server federates with, with moderator discretion.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 years ago

Yes, I feel this is how federation should work ideally. As long as it's not automatic and is only for select communities, there should be few moderation concerns.