Why not implement “Communities following communities”?

Community a can follow community b, making posts from b also appear on a.

What this means is that community moderators can choose to have posts from other communities to show up on theirs. That means if all the pancake communities are following each other, I can post on pancake@a.com and it would show up on the other pancake communities as well, and the comments would simply be grouped into just one post!

As a practical example, imagine if your post on games@lemmy.world would also show up on games@sh.itjust.works, and people from over there will only interact with your post and not a crossposted version of it (which would separate comments).

This would fix the “centralization” issue of merging communities by giving all communities the power to choose which communities to integrate with, and users would have the power to choose which instance to post on. You wouldn’t need to worry about posting or browsing the “right” community, because each community would be interconnected. Just as the Fediverse gods intended.

Of course, communities would have the freedom to choose which ones to follow. If the moderators on pancakes@d.com disagree with pancakes@a.com, they don’t need to follow that community and show its posts. I don’t foresee something like this happening often, though. Providing options either way is good for all sides.

I think this would be a more elegant solution than combining comment sections from multiple crossposts.

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but if Piefed doesn’t yet have an app, how do the notifications… notify?

I.e, will my phone to vibrate or make a noise, or do I still have to check my inbox manually? (Still easier than checking multiple threads manually)

In terms of contributing directly, while I can hack together some terrible python code, I have never done any development in Rust, or on the scale of Lemmy.

I’ll keep the Matrix chat and !learningrustandlemmy@lemmy.ml in mind though. Thanks, @maegul@lemmy.ml and @nutomic@nutomic@lemmy.ml for your thoughts and suggestions!

A bounty is an interesting idea. Has it been used for Lemmy development or similar before? I’m not aware of any examples, but I don’t closely follow development.

Yup, it was actually the piefed announcement which prompted my original post on this.

Does this feature have any interoperability yet (i.e can I follow an Mbin or Lemmy comment from piefed), or is it strictly piefed only?

@nutomic@lemmy.ml Just wanted to check in to see if there is any progress on this. Anything we can do to help expedite the development of this feature?

Any updates on this? From the GitHub page, it looks like work on notifications is contingent on fixing an SQL paging problem. How is that issue going?

For some time now (not a recent 19.5 issue), I’ve encountered an issue where the UNpinning of a post is not federated to remote instances.

A workaround I’ve found is to delete and undelete the post, which seems to force the federation of the unpinning action. Bit of a hack though, and would be nice if it were fixed.

Edit: Looks like this has been/will be fixed.

Thanks for the link to the GitHub issue! Might there be any chance of prioritizing it for an upcoming release?

It seems like a feature which many users would find significant utility in. Since this post, there has already been another post inquiring about this feature.

True, but that doesn’t send notifications for comments and replies. You’d still have to remember to check it manually.

@nutomic@lemmy.ml, do you know if this feature is possible for Lemmy, or perhaps already in the works? I had a quick look on the GitHub but couldn’t find anything.

Thanks, good to know! Glad to see that the issue has some recent activity.

Ah, so the problem is with how some sites configure (or fail to configure) their metadata, rather than a problem with Lemmy?

Don’t think /c/ works on Lemmy. You need to do !animemes@ani.social instead.

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