Cross-posting has struck me as a little strange and I think maybe this is a part of it.
Doesn’t it benefit larger communities more than smaller ones by keeping the activity in a larger one, since they can comment there rather than go to the smaller community? 🤔
I have pondered a similar idea.
Maybe something client side, where same named communities get merged into one as a view.
But lemmy to me, who browses /all/new, has a terrible problem with “spam” - valid posts in some cases but one person posting the same thing to 20 communities and overwhelming the feed
Worse, different communities have different focuses and moderation styles.
Yeah, that’s one of the big downsides that occurred to me as I wrote this. Similar issue with trying to merge any similar but distinct communities