Submitted this a while back to the Lemmy GitHub issues, thought I would post it back here to possibly grab traction/start a discussion on it
One of the big problems with crossposting as it currently exists is that only link posts will actually take advantage of the crossposting mechanics. That is, they will show crossposts under the main title and be combined in your feed. There is no way to do this with text posts, however.
I don’t really know how to navigate GitHub to see more detail, but how would this improve the cross-posting function that already exists?
I’ve used it a handful of times and it seems pretty straightforward.
It would be nice if I could share one post across multiple communities and then have all the comments in just one place. As it is now everyone has to decide for themselves where to comment.
If this solves seeing the same person posting the same article multiple times and each showing on the feed, then that’s a great idea.
Thats already handled by lemmy ui currently. The same link posts will collapse into the same one
Just isn’t supported by some frontends since its a frontend specific feature (mostly the apps)
Comments merging isn’t supported though but the post mirrors can be toggled between relatively easily
Oh I see! That would be awesome.
It would also allow for Lemmy users to crosspost posts from other Fediverse services, such as Mastodon
Eg you see a post on Mastodon that would fit great in a startrek community, you would be able to cross post that Mastodon post into that community
This would enable individual posts to gain traction and comments without having comments/replies being spread across multiple places
Edit: it would work very similarly to reposting/reblogging on mastodon
That would be helpful. I have a Mastodon account that I’m pretty much just using to post my OC trek memes (plus some of my favorites from Risa), and being able to crosspost both ways would be nice.
I love this idea but how do you decide to which community a new comment gets posted?
With the feature request I posted on GitHub, it would work similarly to reposting/reblogging on Mastodon.
Except inside Lemmy anyone who can post in the community would (most likely) create a post linking to an existing post and it would appear that the post mentioned just got posted into that community
Moderators would ideally see who created that crosspost and have the ability to block that person from crossposting (or posting entirely) to that community w/o affecting the third-party post
If someone wouldn’t want their posts crossposted they can just block the community’s actor (account)
