Combining comments is out, because these are different posts that live on different communities, each with their own members and mod policies.
Lemmy-ui already has a "post-deduplicator" that simplifies viewing cross-posts on the same page, that should probably be replicated in a lot of UIs. But that seems to me the best way to handle it.
This would be a bad user experience for certain communities. Imagine the same news article is posted in /c/cars and /c/fuckcars. It is not desired nor expected to have all comments combined.
But I do think there may be some room for combined comments, like when Lemmy has a method to group communities, maybe those comments could be combined from the grouped communities.
I really want Lemmy to be good to use and have good content.
Thanks for you comment, and I totally agree, especially for Mysteries community, I wish we had some on here, some ARG communitys etc.. not clone of reddit posts for these, because you wouldn't be able to be part of it truly, I just wish those community would come over on Lemmy.
not clone of reddit posts for these, because you wouldn’t be able to be part of it truly, I just wish those community would come over on Lemmy.
It's a little bit of a Catch-22 though. They're not going to come over unless the content they're used to is already here. That's why you need the cloning.
And just wishing for it ain't going to be enough. Once the content is cloned here on Lemmy, Lemmy users can run with it from there, and they can actually contribute to the cloned content on the Lemmy side, so it's still a win-win.
Yes that's true, every Fediverse platform is a more or less the same, poeple don't want to come because there's not enough content, so there is not enough content, and the cycle repeat itself...
Wishing won't ever help that's true, but I'm doing my part in the best way I can! I believe there are already bots that can replicate reddit posts and answer, I've seen one of these around, I don't remember which one tho...
Wishing won’t ever help that’s true, but I’m doing my part in the best way I can!
You're doing good, TY for contributing.
FYI, while I am responding to you directly, I'm also 'Speaking to the Choir' as in may, as there's usually a negative pushback to cloning Reddit content onto Lemmy.
I always just assume it's Reddit bots trying not to lose the only advantage they have, the content they already hold/contain.
But it also could just be Lemmy users who only want a 'pure' experience, and 'larger population / market share' and success be damned.
there's usually a negative pushback to cloning Reddit content onto Lemmy.
Bots have their utility, but should be treated with caution, as they have the risk of flooding small communities with posts which garner zero comments. It might be a good idea to aim for no more than 50% of posts (on average) being from bots.
@Krafting, would there be a way to incorporate some form of rate-limiting based on the level of human activity in the community?
Also, rate limiting should be implemented at the lemmy server level (if someone wanted to flood/spam a community he could write a simple script that post 1000 post per seconds easily)
Plus there are already real bot software that repost reddit content without human approbation, this app doesn't repost automatically without the user input.
But I totally understand this concern. And I'll see if this app gets abused or anything that might deteriorate our Lemmy experience.
It is nice but development seems to finally have stopped. That said, right now it works perfectly fine. Just once Lemmy servers undergo major changes it might not anymore.
I'm only aware of one app that can do this: Boost. But unfortunatly, it's proprietary.
Thunder currently has an open issue for this, the dev is quite open to working on it. They want to rewrite the post area of the app anyway, so that's when they will probably add swiping between posts.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !boostforlemmy
Connect does. Think it's having issues with loading from catbox right now though. Not sure if that's a connect issue or catbox api issue because it's happened before.
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