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  • ALERT@sh.itjust.workstoFediverse@lemmy.ml•Does it make sense to cross post to most than one community to read the most people and contribute to Lemmy being active or is that spam?English
    4·
    5 months ago

    Hear me out.

    A post has to be visually aggregated among several communities.

    The current visual representation of a post that was posted in several communities looks like spam.

    It would be nice for a post to have a field, that represents the community IDs of where the post was posted, and these communities should be visible as a list inside the post along with the stats (votes, comments, whether the post was removed from a community).

    Navigating through items in this list of post-clones should bring the user to the same post in these communities.

    A user would see the post in the feed if they are following at least one community the post was posted on.

    The sorting could count the highest or freshest stats, depending on the sorting method the user chose in their feed.

    A post should be possible to post in another community just by editing the “post in these communities” field while editing the post.

    A re-post by another user should be possible and should just add the newly posted community to the field along with the already posted communities. One community should not be allowed for a post twice.

    Lemmy clients should offer users to edit this field in their newly created post instead of copying the post multiple times.

    This way the spam would look like spam and a post can have 20000 communities it was posted on and this won’t clutter the user feed.

    Thank you.

  • ALERT@sh.itjust.workstoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do we say, "when I look in the mirror" instead of "when I look in a mirror?"English
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    1 year ago

    The second example is quite good imo. You would never say “I’m going to a bathroom.” Even if you were in a stadium with hundreds of bathrooms, you would still say you are going to the bathroom.

    you are justifying this statement “because of reasons” :) this is not a logical explanation. there are a bunch of bathrooms in the world. Am I going to the one specific that was mentioned before in the context? then it’s “to the bathroom”. is this bathroom just a random one that I will encounter on my way? then why not “to a bathroom”?

    same with trains: even if you are speaking about a train route with a specific number, you are not talking about a specific train, then it should be “I’ll be taking a train”. if you are going to take the specific locomotive for a ride in a museum, then, obviously, you are going to take “the train”. this sounds logical for the usage of Articles in the English language, at least in my head.

    same with doctors: if you are going to a specific doctor, and your opponent knows which one by the context, then it should be “to the doctor”, otherwise it would be a random doctor that will be assigned to you as soon as you arrive to the clinic, it cannot be “the doctor” by the same principle I always thought exists :)

    I’m not even talking about the option of using a subject without an article, like in Ukrainian. “I’m going to bathroom”. if I wanted to say which one, I would have stated it, but as soon as I am going to pee in a random bathroom I find, why can’t it be just “I’m going to bathroom”? :D yeah, now it sounds like a verb :D

    whoa, another meaningless “the” appeared. “The English Language” phrasing is used despite there are at least four? five? English languages.

    so… it’s complicated :D but this does not prevent English from being The Language of the World, and I cannot name a language that could have been on its place.