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  • I think this could be very valuable for the community and the Lemmy devs. However, I believe to be successful, there needs to be a volunteer(s) who “sync” the community to the GitHub issues. We could automate this but that would make the situation worse. Here’s how I could imagine this working:

    When a new feature or bug is posted, the mod determines if this is duplicated or not. If so, they will reply to the post with a link to the previous post and lock the current one. If it is truly new, the community can vote and comment. After a week or so, if the community supports the new feature or fixing the bug, the mod will open a new GitHub issue with a summary of the community discussion and link to the discussion.

    This is a lot of work for the mods, but I believe it would really add value for both the Lemmy community and the devs.



  • I think that would only work when the number of instances is small. Two solutions to this might be:

    • have instances act like relays where the home instance of a community notifies 10 instances and then each of those instances notifies 10 instances, etc.
    • batch updates on a timer such that once a minute all posts, comments, boosts, etc within a minutes are buffered and sent together.