Is it possible to automatically subscribe to all (federated) communities with the same name?
Example in the screenshot: I want to follow !astronomy, and I don’t really care whether the content is coming from from Lemmy.World, kbin.social and mander.xyz - I just want to see it all.
Obviously I could manually subscribe to them all, but is it possible to do so automatically? Ideally if a new similar community pops up on another instance, I wouldn’t miss it.
I read here that community grouping is a thing, so that instances with identical communities can work together. Is that a feature that could work towards this end?
We need a central registry of communities, aka subreddits, and users.
Figuring out if two posts are identical is going to be a challenge.
Some people are going to cross post but post slightly differently on each instance because they don’t know if their post will be federated
Maybe group by hashtag instead of community name?
We should steal the ideas that were good with Reddit and Twitter
What if users could just configure their own named groups for communities from the various instances, and when you view the group you’d see a feed from all of them?