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Multi-magazines on kbin? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Kbin (and Lemmy) needs something to combine several magazines into one. Currently, there are many magazines spread over several instances. There's no way to just view or subscribe to them at once. You need to check them separately. If there were multi-magazines, new user could just search for someone's multi- and don't get confused by the ten other communities that often are empty.

Is there a chance that it will be ever implemented? It's one of kbin biggest blocks from getting popular.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's been discussed a bit. Most likely, this would end up being a sort of "mini-federation" between magazines / communities with similar purposes, so browsing one of them would pull posts from those internally federated instances too. It would be awesome if someone capable took this on as a project!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it'd be pretty nice for similar communities to opt in to co-federating (I imagine on the backend a submission to one mag would submit to all mags, and the UI just has to be smart enough to dedup)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I like how the userscript Kbin Subscriptions Panel groups magazines/communities with identical names. Makes me wish I could press something that opens up all these identically named ones into one "feed".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It'd be awesome to see a multireddit type feature, definitely. I think it has an even larger use case here than on reddit since here individuals could have a way to consolidate communities.