• Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    1 day ago

    when posting you simply cross-post.

    I’m usually against crossposting between similar communities for niche topics as it splinters conversations. Instead of having 10 comments of 3 or 4 people taking to each other, you have 3 comments split in one community each.

    But I know it’s always a debated topic.

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      15 hours ago

      A cool feature would be to enable community mods to “retoot” posts from other communities, keeping the comments together.

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          Because you can’t control human beings? I’m not entirely sure what you mean. The entire reason the structure of ActivityPub and the Fediverse is what it is, is to have moderation not controlled by a single entity. Enforced consolidation is both impossible and would defeat the purpose.

          Lemmy “communities” are structurally just modified user accounts. So it seems like it could be possible for one to “re-toot” a post similarly to how it can be done on Mastodon and elsewhere.

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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      In this case the alternative is to post in the most active one. By then the user should already have a good grasp on which one it is, unless they post mindlessly.

      That said I like cross-posting. Sometimes I see 3~4 people talking to each other in the different threads - but they’re approaching the subject from a different angle, because of the specificities of each comm.

      • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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        If the communities have actual differences, that can be interesting indeed

        Sometimes it’s just because none of them wants to consolidate, while they are actually identical