merging them completely is bad yes, but the way PieFed does it is nice, they have separate headers for the comments from each community
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SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 weeks agothe 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.
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
I personally still feel like this brings the communities too close.
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
I could see it causing clashes for very specific communities, maybe those could be manually disabled cause I can only think of very few
Blaze@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
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
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
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.
Blaze@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
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”