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Comments from multiple posts on the same page (piefed.social)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What do you notice about the comments on this post? https://piefed.social/post/555259

The post was made in the [email protected] community and other posts linking to the same news article were made in [email protected] and in [email protected]. 3 different posts in 3 different communities.

PieFed de-duplicates them and only shows the post once in the timeline and when viewing the post all the comments on those 3 posts are shown in one place.

The fragmentation problem is solved.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hmm I guess some people might like this but I'd be a bit afraid of mixing different communities just because the same link is posted in them. Different communities might have different rules and different expectations for participation and such. This kind of mixes the different communities together.

Like imagine someone posts a link to an article to [email protected] (Feddit.dk news community), which is already posted in [email protected]. If I understand correctly, I'd then see comments from both communities on the same page? But the comments on Feddit.dk will be in Danish and will probably largely be about how the news story affects Denmark, while the comments on lemmy.world will be in English and from a more international perspective. But muddling these things together takes away the "identity" of the community and suddenly you'll be seeing stuff you maybe won't want to see (i.e. danish comments for instance if you are not danish).

I think there at least should be a user preference to disable this, and an option for moderators to opt out of this, to avoid the above situation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But the comments are still separated out by community in the example post. You can still see the discussion in [email protected] as a stand alone, isolated discussion, but if you scroll further you also get the [email protected]. I assume if you reply to a comment, you’re then replying in that community, but I didn’t test that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Lemmy shows links to all the posts about the same link (I think) so it doesn't feel like an improvement over that