In theory something like a !gaming community could crop up on multiple large instances, especially during the mass exodus while instances are getting hammered with spikes in volume.

If that's the case, we'll have fragmented communities across instances. Is there any way besides subscribing to each of them to combine them into a sort of multi-reddit type aggregation? Or is this considered a temporary (albeit important to adoption) problem during the crazy stages?

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[–] orbit@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My proposed solution to this issue is a way to group subscribed channels. Like if I sub to x number of Games communities I wish I could drop them all in a folder labeled Games so I could browse all of those posts in one spot.

UI would be like Communities -> Subscribed (All) -> "Individual" folder hierarchy containing w/e you want.

[–] bnaur@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think this is the obvious (and much needed) solution and will be something that the clients are going to implement at some point. Maybe with the option to merge similar posts, it could (occasionally) be fun to have the option to see all the comments from different communities with different viewpoints in one go.

It's something that would be useful even in something like Reddit where the sub fragmentation is much less of an issue.

[–] lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

yes, basically the same thing as multireddits?

I used that feature heavily on reddit and would love a way to group similar communities into buckets so I can browse each group independently of other groups