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Is there such a thing as "megathreads" in the Fediverse? I'm asking because of current events, as many posts are repetitive and the discussion is therefore inconsistent. (piefed.social)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by DandomRude@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 67 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I find many people actually hate megathreads. They hate moderators telling them they can’t make a new post with their own take as the post. They hate that their comment gets lost in thousands of comments.

On Lemmy, if you look across communities and see redundant threads, then a megathread isn’t an answer. Megathreads are community/sub based. Not platform based. Megathreads only work if all the other threads are removed. And you can’t go around telling other communities to shut up because you made the megathread in your community.

That all said, I think megathreads do important work. Lemmy just isn’t big enough yet, maybe.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I dislike the concept of mega-threads. It has always sounded to me like a way to drown out information instead of allow for easy access to information, and lowers the importance of the individual post in favor of whoever is more popular.

I think a better option, would be enhancing the crosspost or tagging system to be able to categorize posts by a category, and then for "megathreaded" posts you can just assign a tag. A few front ends already allow you to do usually by putting your tags in parenthesis in the title.

To add onto what you said, yes I fully agree its not a good look to be like "You need to put that in the megathread" I'm less apt to put it in the thread and more apt to just not post it at all at that point.

[–] DandomRude@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago

I didn't want to start a discussion about the pros and cons of megathreads, I just wanted to ask whether this is common practice in the Fediverse. That doesn't seem to be the case - and for good reason, given the decentralized nature of the network. For the sake of simplicity, it would be welcome for some topics, but I'm sure we'll manage just fine without it.

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I love megathreads, the problem is people deciding they can't revisit them after a while, which seems completely against the design of them.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

We could have multiple community megathreads, and then have every mod go into a kind of thunderdome for all of the communities represented. It could be interesting to watch the first few times.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

on mbin multiple link posts are displayed so i can pick which one across the verse has the most comment activity in which to partipate

ex:

[–] CMLVI@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Oh this is cool af. I did. Or know this...hmm.....

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

that's for crossposts, which go across communities so they're not a substitute for per-community megathreads, and of course it only works if the links are the same

[–] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Piefed I think kinda of merges similar posts, but I'm not exactly sure since I don't use piefed. Otherwise, each instance can make their own mega thread

[–] DandomRude@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm on Piefed(.social). However, the discussion is still mainly taking place on Lemmy. If there is such a megathread on the war in Iran on .world, for example, I can't find it.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I just use 'Hide Post' liberally.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

There sorta has been for some state of the unions and such. I had fun reading and posting as the craziness words came out. The comedy aspect has been harder to maintain as things go on though. Anyway they kinda sorta have been done but you know people have to do them to be a thing.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

There is but we're not a big enough community for them to be relevant. It slows down and confused discourse.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 2 points 2 days ago

If you create a new community and start up megathreads for big news events, people can vote with their feet (so to speak). Folks who don’t like them can keep posting to their communities, and folks who do can join yours. I like a megathread for folks who have a take on an event, but don’t care to read the particular article they’re commenting under — I totally get it can be tedious to read a bajillion articles on the same event just to participate in the conversation, but it’s also annoying for those of us who are interested in discussing the contents of a specific article. Megathreads seem like a good compromise that can make everyone happy, so long as you understand that your thread will not prevent other kinds of posts in other communities.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 2 days ago

https://kbin.earth/search?search%5Bq%5D=Megathread&search%5Bmagazine%5D=&search%5Buser%5D=&search%5Btype%5D=0&search%5Bsince%5D=