Possible to create custom collections of Lemmy communities?
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.
Piefed has this feature recently, lemmy doesn’t yet.
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.
Relevant discussion: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818
That pull request was opened five years ago. Meanwhile, PieFed has this feature in production already.
Piefed has an awesome dev. And the tech stack is very easy to read (in my opinion).
Ouch
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
The app Arctic for Lemmy lets you combine multiple communities into one feed.
As far as I know, it is possible on piefed since a recent update - you may want to check it out!
https://join.piefed.social/try/
If you want to get a gist of what it looks like, https://lemmy.world/u/mesamunefire maintains one for PeerTube and other Fediverse videos:
https://piefed.social/f/fediversevideos
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.
That would be great. I would love multiple custom feeds.
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.
Instance can hide some communities from their All feeds: https://lemmy.zip/post/33065677
A bit if a workaround, but can potentially achieve that
See also: instances with individual all feeds https://reddthat.com/post/36815847
Probably not a great workaround, but you could subscribe to the communities rss feeds and group them in a feed reader
Eternity has this too. Multicomunity in the side panel.
It's bugged atm.
One of the mobile apps has this feature, might be summit or connect. but otherwise no.
You can do it in the threadiverse but that would be on PieFed not Lemmy.
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”.