As far as I know this isn’t a feature that exists, but I know the protocol should make it fairly easy.

What I’m thinking is for Lemmy to basically have the option to inherit the comment thread when posting a URL to another fediverse service.

E.g. If crossposting a Lemmy thread, you get a tickbox saying “inherit comment section” or something and it makes the new thread effectively a symlink to the original.

This could also be used to bootstrap other fediverse services like pixelfed and peertube by enabling people to comment directly from their Lemmy instance.

  • Voyajer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    6 months ago

    Better than seeing the same exact post on six different communities one after another.

  • TheOneCurly@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    6 months ago

    That would make sense, I’m pretty sure communities are already just actors who auto-boost posts.

  • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
    7·
    6 months ago

    It’s been declined https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4225

    Imagine the same news article is posted in /c/cars and /c/fuckcars. It is not desired nor expected to have all comments combined.

    Making it a checkbox is an interesting idea though, but could still be confusing reading the comments with the different contexts.

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      This is true but the problem is seeing repeat threads. Maybe it is a stretch but would it be possible to stack the comments under each other separated by a head of which sub the comments are from

  • NotLuigi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    I think this would be simple ActivityPub-wise, but would be more complicated in terms of moderation and would involve some non-arbitrary decisions.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    31·
    6 months ago

    This doesn’t really make sense in the Lemmy model inherited from reddit. A post belongs to a specific community, you can’t put one post in multiple communities. You can crosspost, and from there you can jump to the original and see its comments, but the comments on a crosspost belong to the second community.

    Maybe a crosspost should not have a second comments section, and opening it should always send you to the original post, but I don’t think that’s desirable. For example, if I’m banned from the first community, should I be forbidden from commenting on the post when it’s crossposted to my second community?