TL;DR - See title
For those unfamiliar, multireddits were* a way of viewing posts from multiple subreddits on a single page. So you could, for instance, view posts of both r/linux AND r/linuxmasterrace by using r/linux+linuxmasterrace - you could even append /new to have the posts sorted by new, just like when you visited a single sub.
* past-tense bc reddit is dead to me.
So does kbin have something like this? I tried https://kbin.social/m/linux+linuxmasterrace+linuxquestions/newest - with and without /newest - but it just gives me a 404 page. I’m assuming it either uses a different syntax or else simple doesn’t have this feature yet… but really hoping this is something that could be added to the TODO list.
Tbh for now I’d be happy if I could just favorite communities and have them appear on the top navbar instead of just random ones.
I agree though, I don’t care about “being like reddit” and if ernest finds a better implementation I’m all for it… but I want more granular approach to curating my content beyond just “subscribed or not”. I had a multireddit that combined tech and software news, one that combined gaming news, one that combined my hobbies like board games, etc… It’s a very practical feature and it’d be even more so with all the fragmentation of instances.
Exactly. The ask is about user convenience and functionality rather than mirroring Reddit. If there was a better way, I am not at all opposed to that as long as I retain the ability to make what amounts to my own curated, personal feeds.
And I agree, even just being able to pin/favorite mags in-app (currently relying on Firefox bookmarks lol) would be a great add and one that should probably come before my ask
This is even worse here because there is the same community in multiple instances. Similar with seeing the same link or topic posted multiple times. In either case, some sort of grouping would be nice unless there is an extreme disagreement in different communities. EDIT, from another comment: it would be cool to swap different comment sections (link itself, tech take by user 1, etc) easier than an ‘other discussions’ tab.
Also it would be nice to have topic and language filtering.
There should be a way to link federated communities together, for sure. The microblog tag subscription mechanic could probably be modified to also follow threads from selected communities on different instances.
The first federated social news aggregator that solves the issue of a bazingorillion duplicate communities/magazine/AP forums on every instance - i.e. through multireddits - is my new home.
Honestly I think the choice to, in order to be more like Reddit, have subreddit equivalents tied to specific instances is in tension with federation. Trying to give each instance it’s own host of micro communities instead of having each instance being a community that engages with other instances on cross-platform threads is going to give us headaches. Eventually someone is going to ask for individual magazines to federated.
That’s not too say there aren’t problems with that approach; in particular, moderation becomes more complicated. But just that we’re trying to fit a square peg in a… squircular hole.
I think that is probably part of a bigger discussion. For the scope of what I was asking, consider it as only a more advanced “view” functionality (in the database sense) that allows displaying results from a specific subset of magazines.
I actually think it would be really cool if such a view worked with federation, as that would allow for things such as having similar magazines/communities/whatever mastodon calls their subreddit equivalent from multiple sources displayed in a single feed (e.g. say one or more lemmy linux communities and kbin Linux communities)… as a single url the user could bookmark as simply “Linux”.
For now though, I would be thrilled to even have this ability for local magazines