If the OP had a mechanism to opt-in to aggregated comments, rather than individual community comments, there could be an identifying notice that the comments of that post were being “hosted” in whichever community on whichever instance and were governed by their rules. Essentially, commenters would be guests in that forum and be expected to comport themselves accordingly. I don’t think it needs to be complicated for mod teams.
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Cricket@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
From what I recall, I believe that Reddit handles crossposts in a similar manner, that is, comments in one crosspost in one subreddit don’t show in other crossposted subreddits.
Like Blaze mentioned in another comment, one of the problems with putting all the comments together is that different communities have different rules, so a comment that would be fine in one community might get you in trouble in a different community. People already get confused by this as it is. If all the comments from different crossposts get aggregated in one place, I think it would cause complete confusion and more work for mods.
BorisBoreUs@lemmy.world 4 days ago
julian@activitypub.space 5 days ago
What if upon cross-posting the default is separation, but a request is sent to the original community to request a comment tree merge?
Then you don't have to share comment space with the tankies unless you wish it
Skavau@piefed.social 5 days ago
Alternative suggestion - allow communities to block crossposting functionality with specified communities in the community settings.
Blaze@piefed.zip 5 days ago
As mentioned in another comment, as a mod there’s not a lot of value mixing other comments I cannot mod about to the ones I can mod. Seems like an easy way to abuse the system and avoid moderation
Skavau@piefed.social 5 days ago
Piefed splits up the comment boxes based on community when a thread is crossposted, so you can still distinguish between the comment boxes on different communities despite them being visible.
That said, a potential future option here would be a community opt-out of crosspost functionality in this way
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 19 hours ago
Shouldn’t it be the reverse? That communities opt-in into this feature? It’s 2025 we all know opt-out by default is bad.
Skavau@piefed.social 18 hours ago
Crossposting visibility is a pretty normal tool that should be on by default. It helps communities grow.
Cricket@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Good to know, thanks! Also, good idea on the opt-out.