# How to seperate the "drive by" topics from the "deeper" discussions?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-seperate-the-drive-by-topics-from-the-deeper-discussions/68222
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [8월 17, 2017, 11:13오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-seperate-the-drive-by-topics-from-the-deeper-discussions/68222 "2017-08-17T11:13:39Z")
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### Author: ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [8월 23, 2017, 2:00오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-seperate-the-drive-by-topics-from-the-deeper-discussions/68222/20 "2017-08-23T02:00:43Z")

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> [@angus](#):
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> It doesn’t follow from this that Discourse should adopt concepts like ‘following’, ‘friending’ or other social media features. Those are just proxies that social media uses for user interest.

As for “other social media features” I’d like to also mention the ability of social media to integrate an individuals interest in a set of different topics as well as different communities about the same topic. I think there is potential here in finding ways of linking different communities together

> [@Shared topics between multiple discourse instances](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shared-topics-between-multiple-discourse-instances/67528):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Facebook Groups - Zuck is coming for us](https://meta.discourse.org/t/facebook-groups-zuck-is-coming-for-us/64437/23): I take it that this is not going to be a priority any time soon, but I really like this idea of linking different discourse instances. So here is a more specific feature suggestion: multi-forum topics. Not sure if and how this could be implemented, but the idea would be that users could request a topic to be shared by another discourse forum, i.e. that the topic would be shown in both forums and members of either communi…

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