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.
Nearly 200 upthumbs, more ?!
But the discussion explores broader and narrow variants, need to coalesce.
I just remembered it is even on their roadmap: https://codimd.tyhou12.xyz/s/TukD_H96z#Multi-communities
I see that says ‘has to be local only, not federated’ (same issue also discussed on github).
‘Local only’ suggests to me front-end, i.e. info stored by browser. In that case people who are often switching devices would have to re-organise on each one, which could be tedious.
So isn’t there something in between local and federated - i.e. saved by the instance as user-settings, but not pushed to other instances?
Maybe there could be some manual copying mechanism, so a user who organises a big set of communities could share with others.
(This reminds me of mastodon ‘lists’ and various ways of organising and transferring them).
So isn’t there something in between local and federated - i.e. saved by the instance as user-settings, but not pushed to other instances?
My understanding was closer to this one.
For instance in my case, it would be something like https://reddthat.com/u/Blaze/multicommunity1, but that wouldn’t get federated to other instances
