As far as I know this isn’t a feature that exists, but I know the protocol should make it fairly easy.

What I’m thinking is for Lemmy to basically have the option to inherit the comment thread when posting a URL to another fediverse service.

E.g. If crossposting a Lemmy thread, you get a tickbox saying “inherit comment section” or something and it makes the new thread effectively a symlink to the original.

This could also be used to bootstrap other fediverse services like pixelfed and peertube by enabling people to comment directly from their Lemmy instance.

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    6 days ago

    It’s been declined https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4225

    Imagine the same news article is posted in /c/cars and /c/fuckcars. It is not desired nor expected to have all comments combined.

    Making it a checkbox is an interesting idea though, but could still be confusing reading the comments with the different contexts.