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.

  • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 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.

    • Rimu@piefed.social
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      7 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…