I see it very often, especially with Linux, Libre Culture and Open Source, that one and the same is discussed in 2 or more threads. In one a consent was found, in another not, and in the third are only posted links to one of the other discussions. So I asked myself, what if a cross post would only link to the original instead of creating an own entry?
That’s a great idea! I’ve often wondered about it myself. The main question is about UX and how to enable to filter/post comments by communities. Slightly exaggerated example: if there’s an article published on a conservative instance on a topic that could be of interest to a community around here, i think it makes sense to enable to merge discussions, but i think per-community discussions still make sense.
This raises the question of how to deal with this in the UI when crossposting/commenting/viewing.
I suppose there could be options to crosspost as copy (current behaviour) or as link to the existing post (as requested here).
Yeah that makes sense, like a “Split discussions” checkbox :)