I have pondered a similar idea.
Maybe something client side, where same named communities get merged into one as a view.
But lemmy to me, who browses /all/new, has a terrible problem with “spam” - valid posts in some cases but one person posting the same thing to 20 communities and overwhelming the feed
But lemmy to me, who browses /all/new, has a terrible problem with “spam” - valid posts in some cases but one person posting the same thing to 20 communities and overwhelming the feed
Also sometimes "spam" with a bunch of posts to a single community by someone really trying to liven it up via posts alone. Something I sorta understand but how often has that worked for any online community? 🤨
Worse, different communities have different focuses and moderation styles.
Yeah, that's one of the big downsides that occurred to me as I wrote this. Similar issue with trying to merge any similar but distinct communities
I would be okay with it being opt-in on third-party clients as long as it was clearly apparent which comments were from a discussion on another community and perhaps going as far as not allowing interaction, or at least voting, without navigating to the comment on its native community.
Only open-ended questions? Only questions from mildly embarrassing ignorance?
What if instead I ask everyone anything here? I have no idea what I'm doing, do you? How are ya? Confused? I might be too.