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Perhaps when you go to submit a text or link post, instead of there being only a single sub from which to choose where to post it, you identify 1, 2, or 3 locations it will be submitted (on the Submit page).

However, it's not three separate copies of the same post - all those comment threads are on the same URL. On the comment page, there would be three tabs to show the concurrent discussions that were happening in the three subs.

The architecture tweaks to allow that may warrant experimentation now, but not priority. It could be a way to stand out. It would be a ready-made way to ready Poal for bigger crowds.

This is also a bulwark against censorship - maybe one of the submissions is deleted but two other comment threads survive?

Perhaps when you go to submit a text or link post, instead of there being only a single sub from which to choose where to post it, you identify 1, 2, or 3 locations it will be submitted (on the Submit page). However, it's not three separate copies of the same post - all those comment threads are on the same URL. On the comment page, there would be three tabs to show the concurrent discussions that were happening in the three subs. The architecture tweaks to allow that may warrant experimentation now, but not priority. It could be a way to stand out. It would be a ready-made way to ready Poal for bigger crowds. This is also a bulwark against censorship - maybe one of the submissions is deleted but two other comment threads survive?

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We might be able to do something like this although off the top of my head I don’t have any good ideas how to make it work from the technical side of things. I’ll look into it.

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IIRC reddit does this.

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Interesting idea. Couldn't you effectively do this by linking to the comments section of the original post?

For example, post an article in and then post a link to your comments section in .

I know what you're suggesting is smoother; where you post a link to news and whatever, it shows up in both with the same post title and poster (maybe with an automatica xpost tag), they both link directly to the content, and clicking the comments link takes you to one comments section where users from both subs see the same thing.

But functionally, the thing I suggested is the same (just more clunky). And you have to ask, why aren't people just doing that now?