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Often, its asked what the fediverse or lemmy needs more of in terms of content, but are there any specific features or functionality you really feel are lacking?

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Multi-communities.
So you can create a list of communities over various instances and show all posts in them as if they were one.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is the big one I want too. I'd love to curate topic based feeds from multiple communities so that other people could subscribe to a single coffee feed instead of 5-8 communities that they had to find themselves. I think this would be particularly useful for new people joining Lemmy, it would save a lot of time if they could just sub to a couple of multi's and start getting content they're interested in rather than needing to build their sub list entirely from scratch.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah. Or just personalized feeds that you could share. I'm sure some instances have a great list of communities that their subscribers follow, that isn't available on/Local. And going to /All isn't always a good time. If there was like a /All, but maybe with some extra filters, that users could just subscribe to, that would be awesome

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I always use /all, out of curiosity what's your issue with it? I have nsfw hidden, and have been having a good time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I like /all too, just to be clear. But sometimes I'd like to browse the equivalent of /all, just without politics. Sometimes it's a little much and the feed could be 70%+ posts about the US election

Plus, some instances seem to have a certain "style" to them. I feel like it would be cool if there was some currated feeds that instances presented, that include content across multiple instances that fit that "style". Would just be an easier way to explore those niche communities. It would also kinda solve the issue with having fractured communities for the same topic across multiple instances

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I have this in Tesseract as "Community Groups" (works exactly like you described; browse the group as a custom feed), but I've neglected it for some time now. It works, but it's kind of slow and the sorting/mixing could use some improvement.

The sorting/mixing used to be better, but Lemmy 0.19.0 removed most of the ranking specs from the API response, so I can only sort on the basics like score, number of comments, and date. :(