When I used RIF, I could group subreddits together (can’t remember what the name for it was), so I could put all subreddits for one subject in one group, all subs for another subject in another. It was great when I felt like seeing news about one subject, but felt like ignoring everything else.
I don’t think lemmy has anything like this, and I don’t know if any of the apps do this either.
Communities can be favorited, added to arbitrary user-defined groups, or both. Currently, groups are only useful on desktop since they’re accessed via the sidebar which is not yet accessible on mobile.
Your favorites or any of your community groups can also be combined into a custom, pseudo feed, though the implementation is still in its early phases.
I find that UI extremely confusing, but look forward to see what things continue to come out on it and also Sublinks, an alternative to the Lemmy backend.
I don’t know if RIF was exposing that underlying functionality, but Reddit had native support for that in the Web UI. It was called a multireddit, could “merge” the contents of multiple subreddits.
Reddit also had native support for ad-hoc merged views of subreddits. You could do multiple subreddits combined with a “+”, and Reddit would create a view with posts from both.
I never got much out of either functionality myself. The latter feature I saw mostly used by people creating “mega porn views” that merged many different NSFW subreddits.
A client could theoretically do that here at the client level, but AFAIK there’s no comparable server-side support.
EDIT: Hmm. Apparently people also do the same porn thing merging multiple NSFW subreddits with the multireddit feature; here’s one user’s multireddit consisting of the “top 100” – now apparently 94 – NSFW subreddits merged.
When I used RIF, I could group subreddits together (can’t remember what the name for it was), so I could put all subreddits for one subject in one group, all subs for another subject in another. It was great when I felt like seeing news about one subject, but felt like ignoring everything else.
I don’t think lemmy has anything like this, and I don’t know if any of the apps do this either.
I reeaaaaly miss being able to group subs.
https://dubvee.org/about reportedly has it.
I find that UI extremely confusing, but look forward to see what things continue to come out on it and also Sublinks, an alternative to the Lemmy backend.
Thanks, I’ll have to look at that
I don’t know if RIF was exposing that underlying functionality, but Reddit had native support for that in the Web UI. It was called a multireddit, could “merge” the contents of multiple subreddits.
https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043043412-What-is-a-custom-feed-and-how-do-I-make-one
Reddit also had native support for ad-hoc merged views of subreddits. You could do multiple subreddits combined with a “+”, and Reddit would create a view with posts from both.
I never got much out of either functionality myself. The latter feature I saw mostly used by people creating “mega porn views” that merged many different NSFW subreddits.
A client could theoretically do that here at the client level, but AFAIK there’s no comparable server-side support.
EDIT: Hmm. Apparently people also do the same porn thing merging multiple NSFW subreddits with the multireddit feature; here’s one user’s multireddit consisting of the “top 100” – now apparently 94 – NSFW subreddits merged.
Multiple - that was it. Thanks!
I loved being able to group news/posts according to subject. Feel like news related to only one group today - no problem!