multireddits is the most requested issue on lemmy , any chance it will be implemented for piefed soon? . the ability to subscribe to posts and incrementally read them is really great so i hoping your project might be better at prioritizing and using feedback effectively. It could really attract more developers/donors/content creators which is good.
rimu@piefed.social 6 months ago
Yes, like this https://piefed.social/topics
wiki_me@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
rimu@piefed.social 6 months ago
Yeah I'm pretty interested in this and Topics is only the first iteration of the idea. At the time piefed.social was basically a single-user instance so making the topics admin-manually-curated groupings was fine. Perhaps it's time to take things to the next level, tho.
The concept of 'multireddits' sounds like a bundle of related functionality and I'm not sure which parts of that you're interested in that PieFed's "topics" doesn't already do. Is it the user-created part? The subscribing part? The join-many-communties-at-once part? PieFed does some of those already but you won't see it unless you're logged in...
wiki_me@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Is it the user-created part? The subscribing part?
Yeah basically those parts, i guess , for example if i want a multireddit i want “news” without the politics and certain communities (e.g. business and “the police problem” i don’t want), i guess that’s a typical use case for average Joe, he wants news but not too much news. i think there is research showing too much news is bad for mental health and social media might cause radicalization (see a scientific systematic review of the subject)
rimu@piefed.social 6 months ago
Yeah user-created topics would be a fine enhancement. Various aspects of the multireddit concept have separate issues in the issue queue but they haven't been coherently tied together yet. It might be time to do that.
One way to limit exposure to negative news is a keyword filter, which I implemented 6 months ago, early on in the project: https://piefed.social/post/7576
ericjmorey@discuss.online 6 months ago
This suggestion seems to be a bit different from what you implemented on piedfed. I’m having trouble articulating it though. Something more like a feed of user defined subset of subscribed communities/topics.
rimu@piefed.social 6 months ago
Yes, it's a bit different.
In Kbin they are user-defined. If kbin.social was online I'd share a link.
ericjmorey@discuss.online 6 months ago
I didn’t realize kbin.social went offline.
How’s your project going? Are you finding any tradeoffs you made stand out as especially worthwhile or something you’d choose differently if you started over (perhaps something you’re planning to change)?
rimu@piefed.social 6 months ago
It's going well, thanks for asking. I enjoy using it and improving it every day.
Over the last year I've learnt a lot and if I started again today I'd lay some of the underlying foundations differently - in a way that supports a medium sized app instead of a small one. At the time I didn't know if it would ever grow beyond being small... Good problem to have!