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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] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

precisely, so a [email protected] community makes very little sense for how communities are integrated through federation, a [email protected] makes a lot more sense, but when there is a [email protected] and a [email protected] you've fractured the community if both lemmy servers are federated. a [email protected] and a [email protected] makes more sense. you can't really compare it to how mastodon as it's an entirely different type of community platform.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Both use the same protocol, and Lemmy communities are ActivityPub actors just like Mastodon users are. We could do something so [email protected] would share posts from [email protected], but the way Apub works, they will always be separate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

that sounds like a good way to avoid fracturing communities but how would it work in ways of moderation?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I dont think its a good idea. Moderation would be completely separate for both of these communities. It would probably be possible to make this work as people in this thread imagine, but it would be a lot of work for very little benefit. We have way more useful things to work on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

bridging fractured communities as a community platform is not important?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Not as important as moderation tools, or language tagging for posts/comments.

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

i'll concede to that :)