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

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 [email protected] mentioned it, syncing of communities between instances could also be a cool idea.