I feel like there’s an easy win to keep up with the fragmentation of discussions without waiting for some implementation of this feature request.
All a frontend needs to do is group all posts with the same URL together and display all their comments in the as one unified comment section. If you reply to the OP, you can either choose which community the comment goes to, and maybe set a default as well.
This functionality should be an extra switch for the frontend, so that the user can disable it and see individual posts.
This also nicely avoids not knowing how to deal with moderation, as each community moderator still maintains control.
Comments from blocked communities would not appear ofc.
This would both prevent seeing the same post multiple times on your feed, but also drive view to smaller communities where comment in their sections are ignored.
I love this idea. I feel like it would give Lemmy some of the old forum magic of long historical threads.
Imagine every time a repost happens the comments are additive instead of separate. It would keep posts and conversations alive to have them continue to surface and be upvoted anew.
I really think you’re into something brilliant.
Link plox
Not 100% sure if this is what OP was refuting to, but it is on F-Droid using the IzzyOnDroid repo.
That’s a 404. Is there a git repo? I could use obtainium
Takes a few seconds to find it: https://github.com/thunder-app
But if I understand OPs point correctly Thunder doesn’t seem to do that. As a matter of fact, at least by default, it doesent even compact the same posts.
And yeah, missing out on being able to see comments from multiple threads (hopefully with a noticibly marked community context, so its not lost) is really missing out on the possibilities given by fedi.
Sorry, then I don’t remember correctly. Maybe it’s Summit then? I’ll have to dig, I’m sure I’ve seen a client which does that
Does it show all comments in the same place like I suggest, or does one have to click on each crosspost to see them?
I don’t have the app myself, hopefully someone can clarify
My question is why is this a backend universal question? This should be a per user/instance frontend solution; meaning I would curate my communities into a group on
@lemmy.worldand it’s unique to me.Now I should be able to export or share my groupings if I want, and it should be read-only in the sense that if I post, I post to a single community and not the group as a whole. The only thing a backend should do is allow the frontend to retrieve posts from multiple communities in one call.
In other words, keep it simple.
This is what this post is suggesting, yes
