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.
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
Kbin website implements this.
Oh really? That’s interesting.
Well, to be precise, kbin groups posts with the same URL.
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.
I see the cross posts all at the top but comments are separate
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