Blaze (he/him)

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  • They are separated because communities have different rules and different moderation teams.

    I know as a user that the same comment on instance A and instance B would be perceived differently. I also know that if I report a comment, it will be reviewed by different mod teams.

    As a mod, having a clear view of what comments have been made in my community and which ones have not also helps.


  • Are the posts and communities so strictly structured that a post cannot be a part of multiple communities?

    That’s my understanding. If I understand correctly, a post belongs to a single community, but two posts referring to the same URL will be identified as such by Piefed, which is how the crossposts community consolidation happens.

    In NodeBB categories and topics are all distinct elements, and the fact that a topic belongs in a category is contrived. A topic could be part of a user (pinned topics anyone?), a group (group only conversations?), or in this case… multiple categories.

    Interesting, there’s definitely discussions to have about how to map that with the Piefed/Lemmy structure


  • and moderation actions from cross-posted communities only affect their “view”, so to speak.

    But then if someone posts insults (just to take a simple example), then the original community mods would have to moderate it, and can’t rely on the cross-posted communities mods? Wouldn’t that lead to cross-posted communities mods just consider that the original community mods are the ones responsible for the moderation, and leave it up to them?

    And in that case, then the OG community mods would probably just prefer all the comments to happen on their community where they can delete comments and ban people.