I don’t see why it’d have to be limited to Piefed instances and we can do certain heuristics to test if an instance is good for a user’s location (Piefed’s instance chooser does this).
I personally prefer to point people to Piefed nowadays for the comments consolidation feature alone. Discussion split across multiple communities is an issue raised a lot in the Reddit thread linked in the OP, and comments consolidation allows to solve this.
I don’t see why it’d have to be limited to Piefed instances and we can do certain heuristics to test if an instance is good for a user’s location (Piefed’s instance chooser does this).
I personally prefer to point people to Piefed nowadays for the comments consolidation feature alone. Discussion split across multiple communities is an issue raised a lot in the Reddit thread linked in the OP, and comments consolidation allows to solve this.