Would it be possible, or even desirable, to post a single thread to multiple communities? I was just looking back on the idea by /u/AgreeableLandscape for privacy violation tracking and ended up in the /c/privacy version, which was dead, instead of the /c/libre_community version with a decent number of comments. I am not saying I think it should be a certain way, just throwing spaghetti at the wall.

Edit: complete half formed thoughts

Edit2: learned about mentions and links on lemmy

  • DessalinesA
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    14 years ago

    It wouldn’t be preferable IMO. Different communities will have different user bases, with different input on said post.

    It’s not just the comments that would need “merging”, but the upvotes and downvotes, etc.

    Because they really are completely different, I can’t even think of a good way to merge them on your front page. They have different scores, potentially different titles, etc.

    • @appaOP
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      24 years ago

      Well, I had envisioned it as posting to multiple communities simultaneously, instead of the current model of posting and then using the cross-post option. Thus it would always have been a single instance with a history that was shared out to multiple communities.

      I too had considered the idea that different communities may respond to posts differently. I thought it might be up to the posting individual or if mods could remove their community from the post.

      I appreciate you taking enough time entertaining the idea to form a response.

    • @nutomicA
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      14 years ago

      That way is definitely too complicated. What we could do is link to the same actual thread from both communities.

      • DessalinesA
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        34 years ago

        That wouldn’t be easy to do, since posts have a parent community : IE when you make a post, it belongs to one community.