Dran

I think you’ve convinced me that it’s a slightly more complicated problem than I initially gave it credit for; thank you for that!

I think you could solve for the disparate community theme problem by also requiring title match for mergers. You could probably also solve for it by having a 2-way merger whitelist on links. E.g community A and B both maintain lists of “similar” communities and then if A’s list contains B and vice-versa they would merge.

Comment moderation I got nothing though. That’s a tough one.

Oh weird, I would not have expected to be in the minority there

It’s about halfway there I think, they still show up separately in clients and have separate comments threads.

Lemmy needs some sort of built-in way to merge them. That’d be the best solution I think. Then you could just pick a list of relevant communities and it’d be pretty seamless

Octodad is unironically worth $10