Two Approaches to Solving the “Quiet Fediverse” Problem: Conversation Backfilling Mechanisms (hackers.pub)
from hongminhee@lemmy.ml to fediverse@lemmy.world on 09 Jun 06:40
https://lemmy.ml/post/31399565

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Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Jun 08:46 next collapse

Piefed shows comments from all the crossposts

Example: piefed.social/post/871116?sort=new#post_replies

flamingos@feddit.uk on 09 Jun 10:53 collapse

That still only shows replies the server knows about, this article is about making sure all replies to a post are present on all servers.

FEP-1b12 (Group ferderation) kinda already alleviates this, our part of the fediverse doesn’t really suffer from the missing replies problem, but it’s a solution that doesn’t work well with microblog platforms.

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Jun 14:26 collapse

Thank you for the precision!

JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world on 09 Jun 19:29 collapse

This seems less a technical problem than a human one. Specifically, the need to avoid dispersal and fragmentation. If there are 5 different knitting communities, then the real problem is that there are 3 or 4 too many knitting communities and they should merge.