Kichae comments on Lemmy community feedback: Should we fetch and combine comments from cross-posts on the post screen? · Issue #3415

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this something communities could opt out of? Not everyone wants their community flooded with comments from people replying to people who aren't even community members.

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml [S] 4 points 1 year ago

I could see a user setting for this being a good idea. With a default being whatever the consensus ends up being.

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago*

In this case you have to be posted AS A crosspost to take effect, and any one of the cross posted community can just delete the post, or presumably uncrosspost it.

The problem usually is that, nobody bother interacting with small communities and aggregate around the "one big community" for that topic.

Small community who would want to remain insular have lots of ways of disappearing further if they want to, but that's never the actual problem of small communities. It is always easier to have less reach and become less relevant than the opposite which better crossposts enable.

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