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ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 days agoOn Reddit, I kinda get it. You wouldn’t want to connect the same link across (for instance) /r/antiwork and /r/conservative; the crosstalk there would get horrifyingly bad. But on a federated platform, when you could have multiple /c/antiworks on different instances, it fragments the conversation.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Reddit sorta half did it with the “other discussions” or duplicate tab.
As an example,
old.reddit.com/…/a_clicktocancel_rule_intended_to…
I never saw any apps implement it, but it does look like it was part of the API, but maybe it wasn’t robust enough.
I also know at one point, and possibly still, is that it lacked URL normalization. So for example, exanple.com/headline and example.com/headline#topstory would be treated as two different articles.
Similarly youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ and youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
Would be treated as separate articles.
These are all fixable problems, but require work.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oh, interesting. I honestly just glazed over that every time, but you’re right that that’s a step in the right direction. What I’d really like is for the instance to go the next step further and merge the conversations visually.
So in my mind, at the top of any individual post you’d see the thumbnail and the link title; and then underneath that, as a special-looking top-level comment, it would show the post title and OP text for each incarnation of the post across various instances and communities. The replies to those individual posts are then all rolled up under their top-level comment.
You could roll Mastodon (and other Fediverse) posts in there, too; they would just appear as their own top-level comment, just like replying to Lemmy posts on Mastodon works currently.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s exactly what piefed does actually.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m really excited to get a chance to see it.