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How would you feel about having the ability to merge communities across instances? (lemmy.ml)
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So let's take this actual example: There's !canada@lemmy.ml and !canada@lemmy.ca. They talk about the same thing, but are treated by the current federation implementation as separate instances.

How would you feel if there was a moderation feature to import another federated instance's community into your own, so that the posts from the other instance automatically show up in the same feed? That way, you only have to subscribe to one community on one instance, but you get content from multiple instances. I'm not talking about crossposting or mirroring/duplicating posts between communities, only displaying the posts from another instance the community's home server federates with, with moderator discretion.

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[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

that sounds like a good way to avoid fracturing communities but how would it work in ways of moderation?

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I dont think its a good idea. Moderation would be completely separate for both of these communities. It would probably be possible to make this work as people in this thread imagine, but it would be a lot of work for very little benefit. We have way more useful things to work on.

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

bridging fractured communities as a community platform is not important?