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Is there a way to subscribe to all communities with the same name?

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?

admiralteal ,

What to would like to see is flipboard-style communities where mods import and curate other communities/magazines. I'm not fond of too much happening automatically, but certainly would enjoy seeing someone more in the weeds than my assemble the best of fediverse for a particular interest.

ebits21 ,
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I think there has been talks before of some kind of groups on the Lemmy GitHub. So maybe in the future. Likely not a priority right now.

ApollosArrow , (edited )
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I would love a feature like this, but for the opposite, so I can automatically block magazines/communities that have specific words

Arotrios ,
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Not exactly what you're looking for, but kbin's search functionality can give you a list to find every community with that name that's federated on their instance:

https://kbin.social/magazines?q=astronomy

While it's not a one-button solution, it does make subbing much faster. Note that on Kbin, communities are magazines (aka subreddits).

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  • [email protected]
  • random
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
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