This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @[email protected] and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

Original Announcement thread

  • TopHat@compuverse.uk
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    1 year ago

    Any thoughts on overhauling cross-posting, to allow more interaction with the source interaction?

    As far as I’m aware: currently when you cross-post, only the recipient instance gets all interactions (comments, upvotes), instead of duplicating to or having the origin solely receive those.

    The current implementation hampers the growth of smaller instances when reposting something to a bigger one. Discoverability is still there due to seeing from which instance the post originates from, but that’s arguably not enough.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPM
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      1 year ago

      Cross-posting is for posting to other communities, so it depends all on where the community you’re posting to lives, for who will see it.

      • MDKAOD@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Just a suggestion, but a short term UI/UX solution for this might be as simple as a badge or label suggesting that X instance is defederated from Y instance and that the users content will only be visible to their home instance.