Hi there!
Would it be possible to display cross posts on different instances as a single post?
I just found an article on four of my subscriptions and I wanted to read all the comments so I had find them one by one.
Also it seems to be a problem with lemmy in general, that conversations and likes gets very segmented this way. Would be nice if there would be a way to aggregate.
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Yeah this is a common issue. If the posts are correctly cross-posted, you should see them listed as cross-posts of each other so they are at least easier to find.
Aggregation is possible but there’s a lot of different ways to handle it and they all come with trade offs. I haven’t seen an approach that I like yet.
Basically this is a difficult problem to solve. I’ll add it to the roadmap.
In the piefed web interface, comments of crossposts are added to the post. This has its advantages, but can be potentially confusing, e.g. since a cross-poster can edit the original content, commenters may talk about stuff that’s not in the post you’re looking at. I like the way summit handles it as an alternative, since the “cross-posted X times” button is easily visible.
