Consolidation is a big requested feature. Well, we can do that today with bots. Instead of Reddit-reposting bots, lets use Lemmy-bots to repost and consolidate Lemmy communities together.
EDIT: The community will need to be moderator only, the bot should be a moderator. Posts/comments should be mapped to the original topic. I think the only feature needed from Lemmy-developers is some way to globally link to a topic? But we can kind of work around that issue by making a consolidation-bot / consolidation-community be server-specific?
Is the idea of the bot to for example take a bunch of rust communities and then put all of the posts from all of them into another community that links back to the original ones?
If so the best way to do that is probably the crosspost functionality since it auto makes a relative link
Better idea though would probably be instead crossposting between the two communities so if one post gets posted to one it auto crossposts into the other (and then people can use the relative links that get generated at the top to switch between the two comment sections)
Is the idea of the bot to for example take a bunch of rust communities and then put all of the posts from all of them into another community that links back to the original ones?
Yes. But with enough value-added to make people willing to use this bot.
Better idea though would probably be instead crossposting between the two communities so if one post gets posted to one it auto crossposts into the other (and then people can use the relative links that get generated at the top to switch between the two comment sections)
That doesn’t help a reader who wants to read all the 5 different Rust communities in one location.
but if the communities all crosspost into each other then they will be able to read posts from all of them in one location. Theres just 5 options to do so
for copying comment text into one unified comment section without needing to click on the relative links that can quickly become a right to erasure nightmare
Hmmm, might as well experiment and see which works out better. I’m not quite convinced that your way is better yet, but I do see some advantages.
In any case, the problem to be solved is consolidation. Seems like multiple solutions are possible.
