This makes me wonder if you could make a super frictionless path from a thread on lemmy (or similar fediverse software) to some form of a wiki page that presented the same information but in a more natural form better suited to a longer term repository of knowledge rather than an evolving conversation. About sidebars and pinned threads for subreddits/lemmy communities are an extremely important part of the structure of a reddit-like, but why limit our vision of a reddit-like to only being able to create those two narrow types of persistent, documentation style information?
In practice this obviously can just be a lemmy community linking to ibis wiki pages maintained by members of that lemmy community, but I wonder if there isn’t an exciting space here to explore what that process could look like if the integration was way tighter and more direct.
I think it is worth considering the argument for splitting a reddit-like from an associated wiki in the first place, why not have them just be two different types of posts, with different associated rules of editing, and two different home pages one that looks like a reddit-like and one that looks like a wiki? Same accounts, same website, same markdown conventions and text/media formatting.
Assuming a bit of careful edit permission handling for a lemmy communities associated wiki, wouldn’t the end result be WAY more powerful of a community resource than a lemmy community and wiki taped together?
What if a lemmy post could be turned into a wiki post (on that same lemmy/wiki instance) with a click of button, only requiring a small amount of tweaking to restructure the information in a wiki fashion? The wiki post would of course reference the original thread it was made from and only certain accounts on a lemmy community would have permission to do this.
This capability would give a small lemmy community the ability to warp ahead of clunky, obtuse discord communities in constructing genuinely useful repositories of expert information with far less effort or friction.