Possible to create custom collections of Lemmy communities?
from InfiniteHench@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 04:36
https://lemmy.world/post/26654286

I’m diving into Lemmy, been on Masto since 2019. Also a big Reddit user trying to get away, and I hope to find a feature here that’s an equivalent to MultiReddits (or ‘Custom Reddits’ as they seem to be called now).

The idea is: A way to view a collection of specific Lemmy communities, probably around a theme like gaming, wholesome topics, or tech, etc. Sometimes I like to focus on a specific corner of the internet instead of the flood of everything I subscribe to. If you need examples, here is my personal gaming multireddit and my HappyPlace multireddit (no not like that).

Is this possible with Lemmy? Thanks for any help.

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ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com on 11 Mar 04:42 next collapse

Piefed has this feature recently, lemmy doesn’t yet.

LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net on 11 Mar 05:30 collapse

And it’s interoperable with Lemmy for those unfamiliar. So you’ll be able to see and interact with the same content you can on Lemmy.

annette_runner@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 05:15 next collapse

That would be great. I would love multiple custom feeds.

seeigel@feddit.org on 11 Mar 05:38 next collapse

This would be good for instances if a default custom collection could be added to the “subscribed, local, all” selection.

Then an instance could show the content it wants to represent.

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 11 Mar 15:51 next collapse

Instance can hide some communities from their All feeds: lemmy.zip/post/33065677

A bit if a workaround, but can potentially achieve that

seeigel@feddit.org on 11 Mar 23:04 collapse

See also: instances with individual all feeds reddthat.com/post/36815847

asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev on 11 Mar 05:49 next collapse

Relevant discussion: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

OpenStars@piefed.social on 11 Mar 13:09 collapse

That pull request was opened five years ago. Meanwhile, PieFed has this feature in production already.

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 11 Mar 15:50 next collapse

Ouch

OpenStars@piefed.social on 12 Mar 02:28 collapse

It is hard to even keep up with all that PieFed is doing - like Easier community discovery - PieFed knows all the communities already, and if not tomorrow then later this week will be something else, it's so very active!:-D

mesamunefire@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 17:37 collapse

Piefed has an awesome dev. And the tech stack is very easy to read (in my opinion).

meldrik@lemmy.wtf on 11 Mar 06:04 next collapse

The app Arctic for Lemmy lets you combine multiple communities into one feed.

Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works on 11 Mar 06:05 next collapse

One of the mobile apps has this feature, might be summit or connect. but otherwise no.

Barrymore@sh.itjust.works on 11 Mar 08:08 next collapse

Probably not a great workaround, but you could subscribe to the communities rss feeds and group them in a feed reader

wowleak@sh.itjust.works on 11 Mar 10:27 next collapse

Eternity has this too. Multicomunity in the side panel.

SolarPunker@slrpnk.net on 11 Mar 12:01 collapse

It’s bugged atm.

AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space on 11 Mar 15:36 next collapse

As far as I know, it is possible on piefed since a recent update - you may want to check it out!

join.piefed.social/try/

If you want to get a gist of what it looks like, lemmy.world/u/mesamunefire maintains one for PeerTube and other Fediverse videos:

piefed.social/f/fediversevideos

mesamunefire@lemmy.world on 11 Mar 17:34 collapse

Yep! It works really well!

Plus the feeds can be used for threads not necessarily just on Lemmy/piefed/etc… but also mastodon/peertube,/pixelfed etc. Works closer to a big RSS except any interaction like upvotes/downvotes, comments and others. It’s very well thought out.

pseudo@jlai.lu on 11 Mar 17:22 next collapse

You can do it in the threadiverse but that would be on PieFed not Lemmy.

FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 11 Mar 18:00 collapse

It isn’t with lemmy. The two main solutions is either to use Piefed. Which is a desktop only software that federates with lemmy and has this feature.

Or if on mobile, have a couple different accounts of different instances and use each as a “multireddit”.