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[Feature tracking] Multicommunities / multimagazines

Created this thread to keep an eye on this feature as I believe it could have a huge impact on communities visibility

Edit: multicommunities / multimagazines would work similar to multireddits: they would be created by users for themselves. Users would be able to make them public if they want to, but the main use case would be private.

The idea is to be able to browse your own "memes feed" and then "news feed" without having all the content mixed in your general Subscription feed

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For Lemmy:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

Last comment on July 28

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For Mbin:

https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/issues/486

Last comment on 14 July

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For Piefed, I couldn't find any, @rimu@piefed.social is there one I might have missed?

I know Piefed has topics, but multicommunities or magazines would be more about having personal curated group of communities

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- It's not really on the radar over here. I'd like to democratise the management of topics in some way but what we have now seems to be enough at present. There is not a massive amount of active groups so one admin manually categorising them is still doable.
  
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  Thank you for coming back!
  
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IMHO this should be opt-in for communities and not left to the users alone.

The amount of low quality drive-by comments by people not understanding what a community is about and just sorting them in the broadest of categories like "technology" is bad enough as it is (and causes a lot of extra workload for community moderators).

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- Opt in for communities to self group as one single feed they can advertise without duplication? Sure.
  
  Prevent people from being able to group them however they see fit in their own feeds? Definitely not.
  
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  I really like the idea about grouped communities with deduplication
  
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- How could it be any worse than what the all feed does? I would presume that if someone has added a community to a “multi” which they then actively view they’re at least generally interested.
  
  I’m with you on community visibility options in general though. I’d figure that if/when private communities come, expanding that to “visible only to subscribers” would be possible and should then control the problem you raise. Or am I missing something?
  
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  Yes the all-feed is bad enough as it is, this would make it worse as on the all feed things tend to not stick around that long and get drowned out in the noise.
  
  As for your suggestion to have "visible for subscribers only" communities. Yes that would be welcome, but obviously "multi" community subscribers are subscribers as well, so that wouldn't really solve the issue?
  
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Right now I do this by having multiple accounts on different instances with different themes for their home feed, but I could see why this would be more efficient for a lot of people lol.

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- Yeah, that's one way to do it, but it's not an option for everyone.
  
  I interact with tons of posts and post a ton, myself, so having to switch to my "main" account in order to not spread my user history across half a dozen accounts would be a pain.
  
  Best of both would be nice.
  
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  Indeed. No updates so far on neither platform unfortunately.
  
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- That's what I do too, I find it's helpful to separate topics by accounts.
  
  A multi community feature would surely be helpful for some people though.
  
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- Nice, you are one of the people I mentioned in a comment below: https://sopuli.xyz/post/16331525/11486547
  
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What are multi communities?

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- Groups of communities that you would able to browse together, similar to multireddits.
  
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Summit supports multi community feeds. Use it every day!

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Are they going to put this feature in the apps

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