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Any thoughts on overhauling cross-posting, to allow more interaction with the source interaction?
As far as I'm aware: currently when you cross-post, only the recipient instance gets all interactions (comments, upvotes), instead of duplicating or having the origin solely receive those.
The current implementation hampers the growth of smaller instances when reposting something to a bigger one. Discoverability is still there due to seeing from which instance the post originates from, but that's arguably not enough.
Cross-posting is for posting to other communities, so it depends all on where the community you're posting to lives, for who will see it.
Just a suggestion, but a short term UI/UX solution for this might be as simple as a badge or label suggesting that X instance is defederated from Y instance and that the users content will only be visible to their home instance.