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Feature request: combining feeds of similar communities (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Link@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've been on Lemmy for 10 days now and I really enjoy it. The federation is really cool, but compared to Reddit it does have a downside: fragmentation of communities.

I think it would be really cool to be able to combine the feeds of the community Random_topic@example_instance_1 with Random_topic@example_instance_2 etc.

This could work well for reading, but I realize that posting is more difficult. So when posting you should be able to choose on what instance you want to post to the Random_topic 'community group'.

What do you think?

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[–] pleasestopasking@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something like the multireddit function then, maybe? Custom feeds where you can add any communities that you want (doesn't even have to be the same topic).

I don't think it makes sense to combine the feeds at a federation level (which I think is what you're talking about, but correct me if I'm wrong). There may be non-topic reasons that some users would want to join/read one but not another. And who would determine whether topics were similar enough to warrant having combined feeds?

Being able to make your own personal multi-community feeds would definitely be a nice feature. That wouldn't have any issue with posting, either.

[–] Link@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Something like the multireddit function then, maybe? Custom feeds where you can add any communities that you want (doesn’t even have to be the same topic).

I don’t think it makes sense to combine the feeds at a federation level (which I think is what you’re talking about, but correct me if I’m wrong).

No I was thinking about a client side solution. I don't even know what multireddit is but it sounds like that is what I meant. Though since MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com mentioned it, syncing of communities between instances could also be a cool idea.