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Are there any Lemmy features, or clients or other options, for combining interaction with similar communities on different instances? (lemmy.world)

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

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TL;DR: I want to see posts and comments from https://beehaw.org/c/technology and https://lemmy.ml/c/technology and https://lemmy.world/c/technology and https://midwest.social/c/technology etc in a single interface.

I like federation, but I hate balkanization. One IRC channel dissolving into fifty different Slacks/Discords all discussing the same topic is a story I've seen repeat many times over the last decade. That's what it feels like to come to Lemmy and see a community named "Technology" or "Gaming" or "Politics" on each of a dozen different instances.

I know I can subscribe to all of them, but that's not really the same. It's harder to manage, and still doesn't give me a way to see all the Technology communities without seeing the Politics communities at the same time.

Are there any features built into Lemmy on the server or web client, or in any other fediverse clients that work well with Lemmy, that will make interacting with these communities less jarring and more seamless? Or are there any development discussions about improving this part of the ux?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Something like multireddits could solve this, partially at least

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

There's a github issue for multireddits: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818.

I'd expect the focus for a little while to be on scalability and moderation tools rather than features, though. So it might be a while before a core dev gets to this, unless someone from the community steps up to make a PR for it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

It’s like we need the ability to create multi communities similar to multireddits. Even if they had to be created manually it would help combine some of the overlap.