So let’s take this actual example: There’s [email protected] and [email protected]. They talk about the same thing, but are treated by the current federation implementation as separate instances.
How would you feel if there was a moderation feature to import another federated instance’s community into your own, so that the posts from the other instance automatically show up in the same feed? That way, you only have to subscribe to one community on one instance, but you get content from multiple instances. I’m not talking about crossposting or mirroring/duplicating posts between communities, only displaying the posts from another instance the community’s home server federates with, with moderator discretion.
I used to be really enthusiastic about the idea of hashtags being used to branch communities here together, but I don’t think @[email protected] was as enthusiastic as I was.
Eventually, I realized that it was better to just stop pestering them about which features I most wanted to see.