The post was made in the news@lemmy.world community and other posts linking to the same news article were made in technology@lemmy.world and in askusa@discuss.online. 3 different posts in 3 different communities.

PieFed de-duplicates them and only shows the post once in the timeline and when viewing the post all the comments on those 3 posts are shown in one place.

The fragmentation problem is solved.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] ericdavidmorris@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

But the comments are still separated out by community in the example post. You can still see the discussion in !technology@lemmy.world as a stand alone, isolated discussion, but if you scroll further you also get the !AskUSA@discuss.online. I assume if you reply to a comment, you’re then replying in that community, but I didn’t test that.

[–] MBM 1 points 23 minutes ago

Lemmy shows links to all the posts about the same link (I think) so it doesn't feel like an improvement over that