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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That was addressed in the article under Proposal 2:

it's a feature not many people made use of, and it sounds like a pain to have to constantly create and manage new multi-communities to group together duplicate communities. This shouldn't be a task that users have to manually do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Personally I think proposal 2 and 3 should happen concurrently. Using the example in the post I would setup a custom feed (that can hopefully consolidate cross posts) for breakfast. I would put [email protected] which subscribes to [email protected] I can also add [email protected] and [email protected]. so when someone posts about the best homemade peanut butter syrup recipe that is cross posted to my pancake and waffle communities, I don't get 4 posts about it, I can see it once and choose where to reply (pancakes obviously, I'm a waffle purist).

Community interlinking/subscription fixes a slightly different problem than custom feeds IMO. It's a really good idea, but I would personally still want custom feeds (with the ability to handle crossposts in a customizable way).

[–] small44 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It shouldn't be difficult to group some community automatically then users can edit it if they want

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

How would automatic grouping work?

Even if the communities are grouped, a given post or comment would still show up in only one community, and people not using the grouped view wouldn't see it. Proposal 3 would solve that issue.