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Good point, yep.

On the other hand it would also help people find communities they are interested in but haven’t subscribed to yet.

Like normal - the comments are not actually merged, they are still in reply to separate posts. The appearance of merging is just at the user interface level.

Every post has a <link rel="canonical" href="https://lemmy.instance/whatever"> tag on it which links to the version of the post on the author’s instance.

To spread fear so people “self-deport” rather than making ICE do the work of arresting them?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-to-revoke-legal-status-of-over-a-half-million-migrants-chnv/

Yes, somewhat. But viewing a post usually doesn’t happen in isolation - before coming to this page the viewer will have just seen a teaser of the post, containing the community icon and name OR have been browsing that community. It’s not as bad in context.

Use https://news.feedseer.com/ to summarize your Mastodon feed. Works great.

…they’ll transport you to a black site in El Salvador, tho.

Wow, no dark mode on a photo app. Photos look great on a dark background…

Every few months Dansup announces that Groups are imminent.

Good news - https://join.piefed.social/docs/piefed-mobile/

When we do get a real mobile app out the door (not just a PWA), it’ll be hard to keep it up to date with the web app. So many moving parts. We’ll need to either slow down the charge or let the mobile app lag quite a lot.

It’d be so much better if everyone just used the PWA.

Remember when all the cookers were going on about “Save the children”?

While the actor is a Group and you can follow it, no posts are Announced. All the federation of posts is still driven by the individual communities within the feed. You’ll need to modify Lemmy to add the logic of subscribing to the constituent communities when you receive an Accept.

Also there are Add and Remove activities sent out whenever the feed owner manages the list of communities within which would need to be handled.

Documentation still to come…