this is so fucking stupid though. almost everyone reads books and/or watches movies, and their speech is developed from that. the way we speak is modeled after characters and dialogue in books. the way we think is often from books. do we track down what percentage of each sentence comes from what book every time we think or talk?

communities across instances could essentially link their feeds

yes, that’s pretty much what i’m saying. in the background, that is what would be happening, but on the frontend, the user just sees “communityname” and a bunch of posts that are pulled from all instances that have a community matching that name.

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