this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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Correct me if this is already a thing, but it would be nice if you could post to multiple communities at once and have users see comments across all communities and instances. So a user posts “A” on instances X, Y and Z all under communities run on those instances at the same time. When making the post, you select ehich communities the post goes to instead of just one. Users on instances X, Y and Z see it as a single post it appears in all of the communities the user specifies. A limit might be useful here to prevent trial spam. A user commenting on the post in instance X will be seen on the other instances and communities where that post was made.That way, you could remove the centralisation on instances and communities (one community or instance might remove the thread, but everybody else still sees it and each others comments in the remaining communities/instances.) This has a few advantages:
Share this thought here !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
One issue that came to mind when I tried to re-write this comment to post it on lemmy_support: a post can be made to communities with completely different rules resulting in commenters following the rules of the community they are in, but not the other community the post was sent to. This seems like a pretty big issue for moderation.
That is why defederation and blocking communities happen! If both communities are on far extreme side of the scale then there's no good ground to be made for interaction.
Only idea I had in mind would be to have the post go to a "home" community and all other communities pull the comments from that one and submit their own comments to that one. If the "home" community has rules that the others roughly follow that might help filter the extreme ends out so you don't just get constant de-federation.
Content allowed on instances:
By making instance 2 the home for the post, which by it's own rules only allows content that both instance 1 and 3 allow themselves, you filter out the content which 1 and 3 would hate. Of course, this puts the moderation burden on instance 2. You could still allow instances 1 and 3 to have their own comments which instance 2 doesn't allow, but only they will see those comments.
IDK, I feel I'm starting to see why Lemmy works the way it does. I'll post in !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml if I get a better idea. :)