You can make feeds of containing specific communities on piefed that would combine all like-for-like communities.
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Submitted 5 weeks ago by korendian@lemmy.zip to fediverse@lemmy.world
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Skavau@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
matsdis@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
As a pretty new user to PieFed (and Lemmy), I still find those combined feeds ("Communities") confusing. It helped with discovery, but feels like I have been mass-subscribed and now need to unsubscribe each community individually. (I’m sure this is not the case and I just haven’t figured out how it works yet.)
In contrast, the cross-post feature (mentioned by sibling comments) was easy to understand, and looks like a great way to discover (and loosely connect) small related communities.
wjs018@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
I can confirm that this is something @Skavau@piefed.social has brought up in the past on multiple occasions. It’s an issue that I am sympathetic to, but so far it hasn’t been a high priority for us to take the time to try to address. One of the biggest complaints we see people have about the threadiverse in general is that there isn’t enough content; that their feed gets stale too quickly. So, having more subscriptions hasn’t necessarily been seen as too much of a “problem” from my perspective.
What I did work on was making it easier to unsubscribe from communities. If you filter the communities page to just communities you are subscribed to, it should be a simple matter of clicking the buttons to unsubscribe to undesired communities. It used to reload the page each time, which made that task immensely tedious.
Frankly, now that Skavau has a third party backing up their position, they will be insufferable about it until we try to fix it 😜
Skavau@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
@wjs018@piefed.social See!? SEE?!
Lol, I’ve specifically directly bought this up in conversations about this. Don’t worry.
Skavau@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
I think you can unsubscribe from whatever topics you subscribed to here, and it should auto-unsubscribe you from those communities.
rimu@crust.piefed.social 5 weeks ago
Lemmy fixes this in v1.0.
korendian@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
[deleted]Blaze@piefed.zip 5 weeks ago
No we are a long way off from a 1.0 release yet.
Blaze@piefed.zip 5 weeks ago
Piefed consolidates comments from crossposts : https://piefed.zip/c/space/p/771135/space-station-first-all-docking-ports-fully-occupied-8-spacecraft-on-orbit#post_replies
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Having the option might be handy, but federation is the goal.
Besides, moderation rules might differ by instance. It should remain fully a choice.
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 5 weeks ago
I agree with you, just look at how many "gaming" subs are there... I think I already saw this topic being brought up some time ago.
Kbin had something like this, and Mbin plans to add it, if I remember right.supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
I think some kind of “pod” system would be nice where conceptually similar posts/crossposts could be visually grouped together like a “pod” of dolphins all surfacing on your feed together in a natural flowing way.
Eldritch@piefed.world 5 weeks ago
Piefed at least already deals with this. If you post to a community. Then cross post that post to other communities. Conversations from all cross posted, federated articles show up together.
jwr1@kbin.earth 5 weeks ago
Interstellar (an Mbin/Lemmy/PieFed client) does this by default for cross posts as well!