Can you elaborate on why a community following another would be a moderation nightmare? It would be up to the moderators of a specific community to follow the other communities, if it became a problem, they could simply unfollow.
Sure. It boils down to “should I have the ability to moderate posts on a followed comm”. In the event of a rule conflict (removal, pin thread, etc) , which mod team gets to make the decision about which set of rules to follow? If you say “it’s up to each mod team to decide.”, then that would really be no different than crossposting which already exists in Lemmy, and each comm will then have different content anyways.
Let me put it this way, using a reddit analogy: do you think it would be a useful feature for r/gaming to follow r/games and r/truegaming on a subreddit level to centralize all gaming content on reddit?
I believe you can moderate a community on/from another instance, so it would be logical if, when agreeing to mutually follow each other, they also agreed to add mods from the reciprocating community?
The Reddit example could have worked the same, but the sub due to scale the equation is different and the benefit of the increased community size is less and the Reddit mods would likely see little benefit Vs the dilution of mod status.
It would up to the moderators of the community doing the following to follow communities that abide by the same rules. If a post on the followed community broke a rule, I think it is obvious that the instance following them should have zero say over what is done. If they disagree with the moderation of another community, then they shouldn’t be following it.
I do think in many cases this would be useful on reddit as well. I assume r/truegaming was made to separate themselves from r/gaming, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t make since for r/gaming to follow r/games and vice versa, unless of course they have differing rules.
Can you elaborate on why a community following another would be a moderation nightmare? It would be up to the moderators of a specific community to follow the other communities, if it became a problem, they could simply unfollow.
Sure. It boils down to “should I have the ability to moderate posts on a followed comm”. In the event of a rule conflict (removal, pin thread, etc) , which mod team gets to make the decision about which set of rules to follow? If you say “it’s up to each mod team to decide.”, then that would really be no different than crossposting which already exists in Lemmy, and each comm will then have different content anyways.
Let me put it this way, using a reddit analogy: do you think it would be a useful feature for r/gaming to follow r/games and r/truegaming on a subreddit level to centralize all gaming content on reddit?
I believe you can moderate a community on/from another instance, so it would be logical if, when agreeing to mutually follow each other, they also agreed to add mods from the reciprocating community?
The Reddit example could have worked the same, but the sub due to scale the equation is different and the benefit of the increased community size is less and the Reddit mods would likely see little benefit Vs the dilution of mod status.
It would up to the moderators of the community doing the following to follow communities that abide by the same rules. If a post on the followed community broke a rule, I think it is obvious that the instance following them should have zero say over what is done. If they disagree with the moderation of another community, then they shouldn’t be following it.
I do think in many cases this would be useful on reddit as well. I assume r/truegaming was made to separate themselves from r/gaming, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t make since for r/gaming to follow r/games and vice versa, unless of course they have differing rules.