That means if all the pancake communities are following each other, I can post on pancake@a.com and it would show up on the other pancake communities as well, and the comments would simply be grouped into just one post!

The "communities following communities" seems like quite an elegant solution. Kind of like federating between communities in addition to instances. I wonder what the chances are that we'll see this implemented?

For now, I suppose we'll just have to continue with old-fashioned merging...

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Piefed has feeds now, if people want to try: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38733273

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's more like Proposal 2, and doesn't actually solve the main issues with duplicate communities. Proposal 3 solves them quite elegantly.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You seem to like it, but for me the biggest issue is that it's not going to happen any time soon.

Merging communities can be done now, as you are well aware 😄

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

the biggest issue is that it’s not going to happen any time soon

Yes, Lemmy development is slow, but Proposal 3 seems like such an elegant solution to me that I think it is worth striving for. There's also no reason all three Proposals can't be pursued in parallel, as they each have their own use cases.

Merging communities can be done now, as you are well aware

Yes, but it's a bit of a pain, as you are also aware :)

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

There’s also no reason all three Proposals can’t be pursued in parallel, as they each have their own use cases.

Definitely!

Aware

Oh yeah 😄