This seems less a technical problem than a human one. Specifically, the need to avoid dispersal and fragmentation. If there are 5 different knitting communities, then the real problem is that there are 3 or 4 too many knitting communities and they should merge.
Two Approaches to Solving the “Quiet Fediverse” Problem: Conversation Backfilling Mechanisms
Submitted 2 weeks ago by hongminhee@lemmy.ml to fediverse@lemmy.world
https://hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2025/quiet-fediverse-two-approaches/en
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Piefed shows comments from all the crossposts
Example: piefed.social/post/871116?sort=new#post_replies
flamingos@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
That still only shows replies the server knows about, this article is about making sure all replies to a post are present on all servers.
FEP-1b12 (Group ferderation) kinda already alleviates this, our part of the fediverse doesn’t really suffer from the missing replies problem, but it’s a solution that doesn’t work well with microblog platforms.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Thank you for the precision!