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PieFed adds multi-reddit, multi-community feature (piefed.social)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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PieFed just added a multi-reddit feature, which we're calling "Feeds". It combines multiple Communities (actors of type "Group" in ActivityPub) into one.

Feeds can be followed from other PieFed instances, which will subscribe the follower to all the communities in the feed.

Try it out at https://piefed.social/feeds

It's similar to PieFed's concept of a Topic https://piefed.social/topics, except topics are maintained by the instance admins. Feeds are crowdsourced and federated topics.

When you subscribe to the feed (which you can do from a remote Piefed instance, you don't need to be on the same instance as the feed), behind the scenes PieFed subscribes you to all the communities within. If the feed owner adds a community then all the feed subscribers automatically follow/join the new community too.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nice! Something a little unclear: do feed owners/creators also have to be subscribed to their curated communities?

Great feature whatever the case!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Did a quick test and the answer is that adding a community to the feed will automatically subscribe you to it. You can however unsubscribe from the community after the fact and it will still be accessible through the feed.