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Here is a reference to what that looks like.
I'm not sure how much I like the presentation here. Another option would be to have tabs between the sorting options and the comments.
If you want to combat people only contributing to the most active thread, maybe sort each instance's comments by total comments ascending?
If you wanted to leave a top-level comment in the other thread from the view you were in, you could do like a Window Shade type UI where each comment section is contained in a box with a clickable header. Clicking the header collapses the shade, leaving only the header. Kind of like collapsing a comment. The other thread comments could be under the primary thread comments and collapsed (or auto-expanded; maybe that's a UI setting). Like this:
| Comment Thread 1 (12 Comments) (community-a) |
Comment 1 | Comment 2 | Comment 3 | | Comment Thread 2 (12 Comments) (community-c)| | Comment Thread 3 (12 Comments) (community-d)| | Comment Thread 4 (12 Comments) (community-e)|
It's awkward for me because the comment feed feels very segmented. It's awkward to have a big header for a smaller/niche instance and one comment below it.
It makes that comment seem like an orphan and gives prominence to people who use the biggest instance.
I'd also want the sort I apply (Hot/New/etc) to apply to every comment, not per instance.
I'd propose something like this.
Clicking on the Server dropdown could be a simple checkbox group, which would remember your configuration across that instance. That way, if you wanted to hide specific communities from appearing, you could.
Your proposal might be more visually appealing in certain cases but there is no clear visual explanation of what is going on. New users and people browsing without an account wouldn't intuitively understand that these are comments from crossposts in federated instances (what does any of this mean?)
I don't think normies care, and i believe essentially it doesn't matter.
But I haven't done any research or spoken to any users, so I'm just going off instincts.
Happy to be proven wrong. I'm not a fediverse expert.
I was just suggesting this but in general.