this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2024
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So, there are issues with something like inheriting comment threads in a segmented moderation space like Lemmy. Cross-posting a post from one community to another means crossing... let's call them "regulatory boundaries". Comments posted in Community 1, hosted on Website X may violate the rules of Community 2, hosted on Website Y. So, what would that mean in terms of rules enforcement?
As a moderator, you can delete the comments you've inherited, but it's a lot harder to keep up when you've just gotten 50 or 100 comments dumped on you all at once. It also breaks the syncronization you seem to be looking for.
You can decide that moderators at the receiving community can't moderate the discussion, but that's just ends up seeming somewhat parasitic, and a clear and open vector for abuse.
On top of the moderation issues, it also means giving users the ability to just... inject people into a community who aren't members, both without the consent of that community, and without the consent of the people being injected in. Like, what happens if I were to cross-post something into a troll community? Suddenly, I've just exposed dozens of people -- if not more -- to a harassment ring, with two clicks of a button.
Personally, I fail to see the upsides. This really just seems like yet another way to try and paper over the fact that we're all using different websites, and to ignore the websites that we're actually using in favour of make believing that we're in the centre of the panopticon.
I think the necessity for moderators to curate the experience for the members of the community is overrated.
I've seen very selected cases where that kind of thing is done to good effect. /r/AskHistorians is the most obvious example. I've seen a whole lot of cases where there are moderators who are abusing their ability to control the conversation, going well beyond just keeping everything on the rails, and deciding for themselves what people in the comments are and aren't allowed to say.
Personally, I think merging the comments threads from multiple communities would be a clear benefit, in part specifically because it would eliminate that ability for moderators to decide how they want to shape the comments to look like.
To deal with moderation conflicts you could basically just unlink the thread.
Also we could also just add flags to activitypub messages on creating posts to tell the boosting server whether or not merging is permitted.
If you've worked hard on something and want everyone to see it, set it to True and people can boost it to different communities.
If it's something personal or an in-joke that you only want to be advertised to the community it's posted in set it to False and the option won't be available when cross posting in the UI.
The upside is that I don’t scroll down my feed and see the same post 20 times.
I get what you’re saying but surely a lot of these problems are already present. You can ban a user but they can just go create a new account on a different instance and go back to posting wherever they want.
Personally I’d like to see some kind of tracking thing so Lemmy’s aware of duplicate posts and then the client can be configured how to behave according to user preference.