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Insert I guess I'll die meme here. Oh wait, no, this, for basically no reason:

So if the title were changed from the original, it would still recognize it as a cross post, somehow? Perhaps based on it sharing an identical URL, or something added when you go into the cross-posting interface - if so then I suppose as you said the text in the body about the fact that it's cross-posted. Hrm, and phrased differently, if someone were to share an identical URL independently, so not going through the cross-posting interface at all, would Lemmy and K/Mbin still recognize it as a cross-post?

Thanks for that insight. So if OP meant from a traffic standpoint, then yeah I see it doesn't help at all. It also still splits the comments across the entire Fediverse, rather than concentrating them into like a megathread. And people could upvote multiple posts, and comment inside multiple ones, etc., so it actually increases traffic to have them split up, perhaps not quite as much as fully independent posts but more than if they were singular ones.

Whereas from a UX standpoint, it is so helpful to tidy things up to see e.g. one post shared to 5-20 communities rather than each of those showing up as its own individual post, taking up most of your feed even after you've already consumed the content and want to see what else is going on. And as we are seeing, each community has its own slant on the type of discussions that they want to have, so even if the posts could be conjoined somehow, into like a pseudo-megathread, the impact of that would hit very differently than allowing them to be different (cross-)posts. So cross-posting seems a nice balance between fully individual vs. fully conjoined:-).

The purpose of social media is to discuss things, not disseminate information. That is Wikipedia, or news sites. Tbf Reddit got its start as a news aggregator service. But to halt already started conversations... that really sucks.:-(

Hrm, so he wasn't seriously injured, and the outcome ends in his favor, hrm... I see.

And Biden's administration ends up looking weaker than ever before, for allowing it to happen. I hate politics.:-(

Also hexbear.net, e.g. example.

Check out https://dubvee.org/.

It's a bit hyperbolic in this context, yet also technically accurate in a surprising number of ways, though mostly I was focusing on how he won't allow an election to determine who gets to be the Democratic nominee. Also, he has the legal ability to murder his opponents, and is both supporting (in Gaza) even while also decrying (in Ukraine) genocide. Anyway, the point is that he is suppressing opposition (from within his own party, by not allowing a debate about who may replace him), which yes he has the legal ability to do, fwiw. So he is not much of one perhaps, but has some characteristics not entirely dissimilar to one.

I recall doing the same - sometimes it was as simple as punctuation used (or not used, who even knows!?:-P). I even became mod of such a sub, that had basically been abandoned and nearly died out as a result of that. But then I abandoned it myself, after making sure I had passed it on to a good substitute:-). Nothing beats the care and concern of an actual human.

I mean... the scope of the issue is different here.:-)

What I like is that it is still possible to have an excellent conversation here. On Reddit I gave up all hope of that, and was leaving it regardless of finding here or not. I suppose I would just touch grass, read books, play games - the things we used to do before social media. And I do all that too, but also I found that here, you can sometimes have an enjoyable conversation, whereas there you basically never could, towards the end. 🙄

And the tools themselves will get better, over time - e.g. the upcoming Sublinks.:-)

Oregonic :-P

So then uh... where do "orgasmic" apples come from? Asking for a friend.

Cross-posting existing posts also helps immensely to cut down on the clutter. I've done that, from larger communities to smaller ones that I wanted to help grow. I've never tried changing the title to see if it still connects, but maybe so, if someone wanted/needed (for the specific rules of the community) to do that.

Do they still have mods, I thought they were all robots at this point? Especially for those large ones... Then again, this is so big it could even be an admin decision.