Clone a post

[cindywu]

I want to be able to clone a paper (make a copy) on Jelly to add to my library.

For example, I want to take this public paper and clone it (without comments) into my private library or to share publicly on Twitter (without existing comments).

https://jellypbc.com/posts/mmsloc-local-first-software-you-own-your-data-in-spite-of-the-cloud

[cindywu]

The short term solution for this is:

1. Create a new post
2. Copy content from desired post and paste into new post
3. Share that new post (or set to private)

Two reasons for allowing cloning or forking is to (1) give credit to the creator of the original post and (2) to track lineage of the ideas.

[cindywu]

Note: Links to posts (references, footnotes) should be transferred with the clone. Inline comments should not be transferred with the clone.

[cindywu]

If we allow cloning, a pre-requisite may be to design deduplication of papers first.

Currently when two identical posts exist, they show up in search like this: