Yeap, this is the kind of improvement that needs to happen at the client level, not server.
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hempster@lemm.ee 10 months agoIn the meantime, third-party apps can combine posts from multiple communities (that have the same URL) coalesced one single post, and pull comments from every instance’s post.
rglullis@communick.news 10 months ago
ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Automatic merging of that sort is problematic as each community can have significantly different rules, conventions, moderation strictness, priorities and overall “vibe”.
Spzi@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It can also make comment sections confusing where people talk about the comment section. When different viewers see different versions of the comment section (for example through different combinations of federation), it can be extra confusing to merge them all into one stream.