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.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    7 days ago

    It took reddit a long time to come up with “Multis” where you put whatever themed channels under one group.

    I don’t see why it couldn’t be done here.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    23·
    7 days ago

    its been suggested… i think its called ‘community groups’ or something like it. you could aggregate any community subscriptions into an arbitrary group

    it was suggested as a fix for all the same-topic different instance issue… you could add the ‘cats’ community from all the different servers into one group. would fit your needs it sounds like.

    • Ben Matthews@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Nearly 200 upthumbs, more ?!
      But the discussion explores broader and narrow variants, need to coalesce.

        • Ben Matthews@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          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).

          • Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish
            1·
            5 days ago

            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

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    I thought about this a while ago. My conclusion was that the simplest way to handle this would be to copy multireddits, and expand upon them.

    Here’s how I see it working.

    Users can create multireddits multicommunities multis as they want. What goes within a multi is up to the user; for example if you want to create a “myfavs” multi with !potatoism, !illegallysmolcats and !anime_art, you do you.

    The multi owner can:

    1. edit it - change name, add/remove comms to/from the multi
    2. make the multi public or private
    3. use the multi as their feed, instead of Subscribed/Local/All
    4. use the multi to bulk subscribe, unsub, or block comms

    By default a multi would be private, and available only for the user creating it. However, you can make it public if you want; this would create a link for that multi, available for everyone checking your profile. (Or you could share it directly.)

    You can use someone else’s public multi as your feed or to bulk subscribe/unsub/block comms. You can also “fork” = copy it; that would create an identical multi associated with your profile, that then you can edit.

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
    4·
    6 days ago

    kbin had collections. Im on mbin now and I was not able to find it but im not sure if that is just because I may not be able to find the config. Trust cafe (not part of the federation) has a neat concept which I would love to see in the fediverse. Basically all the things you can block or subscribe also has a trust which is basically a weight on how much you favor it. By default they are 50 but you can raise or lower them. So you could drop news sources to 25 and hobby ones to 75 lets say and now the hobbies will be given greater weight in your feed. You can do it with users to so if you have someone who posts good stuff you can weight them higher. On the other side if someones stuff tends to be crap but you don’t want to outright block them you can just dial them down to 5 or something

  • Today@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    7 days ago

    You could make a different account for each category. Would be kind of clunky having to switch when you want to read each category.

    • infeeeee@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I use this workflow, and used it on reddit as well. Here I have different accounts on different instances. Mobile apps lets you change between them easily. On desktop I just open them in a different tabs.

  • muntedcrocodile@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    7 days ago

    The solution is post tagging ive seen some discussion on implementation but i dont believe it federates with mastodon tags.