Is there a lemmy app that you can group communities in a feed?
from WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 18 Aug 16:45
https://lemmy.world/post/34642896

I’d like to have a way to group communities in different feeds (the equivalent of multireddits?).

Anyone happen to know of an app that has that feature?

I’m on iOS if that matters.

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admiralpatrick@lemmy.world on 18 Aug 17:03 next collapse

Lemmy’s API doesn’t have a direct way to do that, unfortunately.

Tesseract (web-based lemmy app) used to have that before I took it out. After the ranking metrics were removed from the API, it was hard to sort them other than by new/old or by score. When you have a mix of active and inactive communities, it didn’t work great without the ranking metrics being there.

You can still group communities, but only for organizing them or (in the dev branch/next version) applying filter policies to communities in that group.

I may revisit the idea if I can figure out a better way to generate/sort the custom feeds.

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de on 18 Aug 17:24 collapse

Lemmy’s API doesn’t have a direct way to do that, unfortunately.

This feature is planned (and I think already implemented) for Lemmy 1.0. I think we can expect it later this year.

WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world on 18 Aug 20:49 collapse

I’ll have to be on the lookout for that!

TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip on 18 Aug 20:10 next collapse

I haven’t found a good solution to it, so I’ll give you a bad solution instead. If you need five stacks of communities, you can make five accounts and use each to follow specific communities. Like, one account for sports communities, second one for memes, third one for politics etc. it’s not an elegant solution, but it gets the job done.

Alice@hilariouschaos.com on 18 Aug 20:39 next collapse

Thats actually a good idea

WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world on 18 Aug 20:49 collapse

Yeah, that’s what I was planning to do if there wasn’t a better option.

klu9@piefed.social on 18 Aug 20:49 next collapse

There are feeds in Piefed

https://piefed.social/feeds

edgemaster72@lemmy.world on 18 Aug 20:49 next collapse

I think I’ve seen people say this is a thing Piefed does? Not sure about the details of how it works exactly.

waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world on 19 Aug 00:15 collapse

Summit lets you create multi-communities which I think is what you want. I haven’t tried it so I don’t know.

Oh sorry android only :(