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Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects (drewdevault.com)

submitted 2 years ago by starman@programming.dev to c/foss@beehaw.org

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[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I feel like cross-posts should share comment threads…

Now comment threads are split across 6 communities.

[–] eveninghere@beehaw.org 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Kbin website implements this.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh really? That's interesting.

[–] eveninghere@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, to be precise, kbin groups posts with the same URL.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 4 points 2 years ago

I've seen some Lemmy apps/interfaces do that as well. So maybe it's not all that different?

I think what they're suggesting is that a post would have a merged view of all comments from all the different duplicate posts in all the different communities it's posted in.

[–] 0421008445828ceb46f496700a5fa6@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I see the cross posts all at the top but comments are separate

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

To combine the comments would probably require a revision to the lemmy protocol, plus an even bigger one to the backend software to keep backwards compatibility

[–] noddy@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If it is possible to detect which posts are cross posts, it should be possible to create a client app that combines the threads. Maybe give you an option to chose which one to post your comment.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't think it should be a client feature. It should be federated, like the posts are.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think the issue with federation of comments is moderation of comments.

You might not like the admins of example.org:foo but you might have no issues with the admins of example.com:foo.

[–] noddy@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I was just thinking about a possible solution based on what we have. I agree it would be better if cross post comments were federated, but I guess there's different opinions on that (do the lemmy devs agree for example?).