I just had an idea that people smarter than me have probably had long before I heard of Lemmy.....but I don't see it implemented, so I'm sharing it anyways!!!

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

Ok, so one of the bigger problems I see on Lemmy is the fact that I subscribe to dozens of different communities, but my feed is always the same. News news news technology technology technology.

What if I want something lighthearted? What if I DON’T want to see certain topics???

Maybe I’m at work, and a big sports game is going on. I don’t want spoilers, so now I can’t look at Lemmy.

Or what if Nintendo hosts a Nintendo Direct before I get a chance to see it? Welp. Can’t look at Lemmy.

But…what if I could? What if my main feed was exactly what it is now. But what if I had user created catagories? I could make one called “News”. Now if I want to see the news, I can include that catagory in my home feed. Or I can exclude it from my home feed. I could switch over to the news catagory, and then every community that I’ve designated under the news catagory that I’ve created will show ONLY those communities home feed.

Or maybe I want to see only video game related stuff.

Or maybe I only want to see sports stuff.

I could even create user created tabs. I could name the first one “Happy” and it could include light hearted catagories. Things like /c/aww and /c/humor

I could have a tab called “Serious” and it could be all news, and updates on the world.

I could have a tab called “Nerdy” and it could be all technology and video game related stuff.

Or I could have my main home tab, where I choose which communities/catagories do and don’t appear.

And you could do the same concept in Mastadon with followed users. If you follow some users who only post about pro-wrestling, and you don’t want to see that? Uncheck your pro-wrestling catagory from your home feed tab. Have a seperate tab just for pro-wrestling.

I’m sure you could implement this with other fediverse services. I just haven’t used many to give examples of how they would work, if I don’t know how the core platforms themselves work.

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jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It took reddit a long time to come up with “Multis” where you put whatever themed channels under one group.

I don’t see why it couldn’t be done here.

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- SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Just hijacking the top comment to say that it has been suggested, just not implemented yet github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818
  
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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
its been suggested.. i think its called 'community groups' or something like it. you could aggregate any community subscriptions into an arbitrary group

it was suggested as a fix for all the same-content different instance issue... you could add the 'cats' community from all the different servers into one group. would fit your needs it sounds like.

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- imsodin@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah that sounds good too, but it’s but the same thing. I just want a client side filter for lists of communities. No need to involve AP or get consensus amongst many users/communities, just my preferences. If we want to get fancy, have some APIs to store these lists server side so or can with across clients - still strictly single user. It feels so simple I am tenors to get my hands dirty, but for one diving into a new project is usually quite since work and it hardly ever turns out to be as easy as it seems (then again the new python lemmylike thing already has it instance wide, so it at least is doable).
  
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Blaze@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Feel free to upvote this issue on Github: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

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- onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s the most wanted feature. Image
  
  I think if people really want it, they can pool together on a bounty.
  
  Anti Commercial-AI license
  
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  - Blaze@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I just remembered it is even on their roadmap: codimd.tyhou12.xyz/s/TukD_H96z#Multi-communities
    
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  - wiki_me@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    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)?
    
    bounty source is dead, polar and algora seem like good alternatives.
    
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- benjhm@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Nearly 200 upthumbs, more ?!
  But the discussion explores broader and narrow variants, need to coalesce.
  
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  - Blaze@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Probably needs a new comment to get people to converge indeed
    
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  - Blaze@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I just remembered it is even on their roadmap: codimd.tyhou12.xyz/s/TukD_H96z#Multi-communities
    
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lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I thought about this a while ago. My conclusion was that the simplest way to handle this would be to copy multireddits, and expand upon them.

Here’s how I see it working.

Users can create ~~multireddits~~ ~~multicommunities~~ multis as they want. What goes within a multi is up to the user; for example if you want to create a “myfavs” multi with !potatoism, !illegallysmolcats and !anime_art, you do you.

The multi owner can:

edit it - change name, add/remove comms to/from the multi

make the multi public or private

use the multi as their feed, instead of Subscribed/Local/All

use the multi to bulk subscribe, unsub, or block comms

By default a multi would be private, and available only for the user creating it. However, you can make it public if you want; this would create a link for that multi, available for everyone checking your profile. (Or you could share it directly.)

You can use someone else’s public multi as your feed or to bulk subscribe/unsub/block comms. You can also “fork” = copy it; that would create an identical multi associated with your profile, that then you can edit.
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kionite231@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sounds like something that could be implemented client side.

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- vala@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  For sure. Probably should be really.
  
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aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
yeah, communities should have subject tag sets. I don’t care for anime or sports or video games - i should be able to turn off those tags. Not block 50 different game communities ad hoc

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rimu@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yes, like this https://piefed.social/topics

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- ericjmorey@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.
  
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  - rimu@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yes, it's a bit different.
    
    In Kbin they are user-defined. If kbin.social was online I'd share a link.
    
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- wiki_me@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  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.
  
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  - rimu@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨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...
    
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HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
kbin had collections. Im on mbin now and I was not able to find it but im not sure if that is just because I may not be able to find the config. Trust cafe has a neat concept which I would love to see in the fediverse. Basically all the things you can block or subscribe also has a trust which is basically a weight on how much you favor it. By default they are 50 but you can raise or lower them. So you could drop news sources to 25 and hobby ones to 75 lets say and now the hobbies will be given greater weight in your feed. You can do it with users to so if you have someone who posts good stuff you can weight them higher. On the other side if someones stuff tends to be crap but you don't want to outright block them you can just dial them down to 5 or something

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- Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Is kbin gone?
  
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  - Blaze@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They pretty much are, people moved to mbin: feddit.nl/post/16832203?scrollToComments=true
    
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  - HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    no idea but I have not been able to get the site for awhile. earnest briefly came back and said he was handing some stuff off and it worked for a day or so and then its been pretty much offline since then. long enough im not even sure how long its been now. unfortunately I had trouble transfering over the config. im going to have to subscirbe and block from zero I think.
    
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BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It would be cool if you could make your own tabs, so that everytime you subscribe to a community, you can go down a checklist of tabs you created, picking ones you think that belongs to.

Fo now, I guess the work around is to have several usernames divided by categories, but that seems cumbersome and disjonted.

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- imsodin@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah I was also thinking about multiple users for this, but that’s a terrible hack on so many levels…
  
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Today@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You could make a different account for each category. Would be kind of clunky having to switch when you want to read each category.

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- infeeeee@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I use this workflow, and used it on reddit as well. Here I have different accounts on different instances. Mobile apps lets you change between them easily. On desktop I just open them in a different tabs.
  
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muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The solution is post tagging ive seen some discussion on implementation but i dont believe it federates with mastodon tags.

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