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Which Lemmy apps/frontends do support thread merging/deduplication? (feddit.org)
submitted 1 month ago by Lemmchen@feddit.org to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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Yesterday I found Interstellar which has this feature. I assume mainly because it is not only a Lemmy app, but also a PieFed one, which has this feature in the reference frontend (AFAIK).

Are there other Lemmy apps or frontends that support thread merging?

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[–] crash_thepose@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

can I ask what thread merging is?

[–] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When the same link is posted multiple times, the comment sections from each community it's posted to are all displayed on one page.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

It's like merging multiple communities together against their knowledge, will, or consent, because people are too fucking lazy to use the Subscriber feed.

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's basically a feature that shows comments from other communities, when there's a crosspost.

So say, when there's a link to an article on www.omgubuntu.co.uk and it's posted to https://lemmy.ml/c/linux, https://programming.dev/c/linux and https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/c/news, you can see comments from all three communities instead of having to check each of them separately to get the whole discussion.

(I think it only shows crossposts from federated instances. Or maybe only from the communities you have subscribed to? Not sure)