Ok, so one of the bigger problems I see on Lemmy is the fact that I subscribe to dozens of different communities, but my feed is always the same. News news news technology technology technology.

What if I want something lighthearted? What if I DON’T want to see certain topics???

Maybe I’m at work, and a big sports game is going on. I don’t want spoilers, so now I can’t look at Lemmy.

Or what if Nintendo hosts a Nintendo Direct before I get a chance to see it? Welp. Can’t look at Lemmy.

But…what if I could? What if my main feed was exactly what it is now. But what if I had user created catagories? I could make one called “News”. Now if I want to see the news, I can include that catagory in my home feed. Or I can exclude it from my home feed. I could switch over to the news catagory, and then every community that I’ve designated under the news catagory that I’ve created will show ONLY those communities home feed.

Or maybe I want to see only video game related stuff.

Or maybe I only want to see sports stuff.

I could even create user created tabs. I could name the first one “Happy” and it could include light hearted catagories. Things like /c/aww and /c/humor

I could have a tab called “Serious” and it could be all news, and updates on the world.

I could have a tab called “Nerdy” and it could be all technology and video game related stuff.

Or I could have my main home tab, where I choose which communities/catagories do and don’t appear.

And you could do the same concept in Mastadon with followed users. If you follow some users who only post about pro-wrestling, and you don’t want to see that? Uncheck your pro-wrestling catagory from your home feed tab. Have a seperate tab just for pro-wrestling.

I’m sure you could implement this with other fediverse services. I just haven’t used many to give examples of how they would work, if I don’t know how the core platforms themselves work.

  • ericjmoreyEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    This suggestion seems to be a bit different from what you implemented on piedfed. I’m having trouble articulating it though. Something more like a feed of user defined subset of subscribed communities/topics.

    • Rimu@piefed.social
      4·
      6 months ago

      Yes, it’s a bit different.

      In Kbin they are user-defined. If kbin.social was online I’d share a link.

      • ericjmoreyEnglish
        21·
        6 months ago

        I didn’t realize kbin.social went offline.

        How’s your project going? Are you finding any tradeoffs you made stand out as especially worthwhile or something you’d choose differently if you started over (perhaps something you’re planning to change)?

        • Rimu@piefed.social
          3·
          6 months ago

          It’s going well, thanks for asking. I enjoy using it and improving it every day.

          Over the last year I’ve learnt a lot and if I started again today I’d lay some of the underlying foundations differently - in a way that supports a medium sized app instead of a small one. At the time I didn’t know if it would ever grow beyond being small… Good problem to have!