I don’t understand how Lemmy intends to do it when the different instances are federated, if several instances create the same community for example…is that possible?
I don’t understand how Lemmy intends to do it when the different instances are federated, if several instances create the same community for example…is that possible?
Unrelated thought, you think it would be a good idea to send notifications about new comments to everyone above in the comment tree? So in this case, notify you, /u/muirrum and /u/AgreeableLandscape about my post?
I thought about it, because I think that’s the way twitter does it. But IMO for reddit-style it shouldn’t, there are some reddit threads that have dozens of nested comments, where the original parent commenters aren’t even a part of it anymore. I’d personally want mentions to be explicit if they aren’t in a direct response.
Totally agree but could it be better to have this setting as an option? In small communities, it could be useful, in large ones could be not. Let’s have a choice.
We could have an option to follow a particular point in the comment tree, but by default I don’t think that would be a good idea since discussion tends to evolve as thread depth increases, and notifying users about every comment can cause problems with most of them being out of context.