Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks agoyea, but if Lemmy never adds a feature you really want, maybe just switch to PieFed lol
the Lemmy devs are very much against merged comments, although they do show crossposts already and v1.0 will have multi-communities
the Lemmy devs are very much against merged comments
For good reason perhaps? It merges distinct communities together, making communities less distinct. Different communities can have different moderation and participation standards and norms. Merging them I feel is a bad idea.
At the moment we have a few famous examples of similar communities coexisting
All of those communities have similar rules, there’s nothing distinguishing them (!privacy@lemmy.ml for instance is different) except that mods never bothered to agree on a single place
I don’t think this is a problem. If the communities are similar enough, one will eventually win and be the bigger and main one. If they are different enough, they can continue coexisting.
Those are examples of similar communities that will probably never merge, but gives lawsofux.com/choice-overload/ to new joiners
“Where should I post? Those two communities look the same, one has more active users but the other one has more subscribers. Well, this is too confusing, guess I’ll just go back to Reddit”
merging them completely is bad yes, but the way PieFed does it is nice, they have separate headers for the comments from each community
I personally still feel like this brings the communities too close.
I could see it causing clashes for very specific communities, maybe those could be manually disabled cause I can only think of very few
flamingos@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
No? It was said it shouldn’t be done in the backend, a frontend or an alternative client can still do PieFed style comment listing.