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?

  • @irkli@lemmy.world
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    41 year ago

    Ah… But you’re thinking of the ‘benefit’ of centralization. That one-world model gateways what you can see as much as it enables.

    There’s always more your can’t see, and discovery is half the fun. The diversity of approach, content, management, rules and culture are more interesting, to me, than just quantity.

    Also it’s very early in adoption of federation. Let’s see how things pan out. And we definitely need to be careful of replicating the past

    Everything has Side Effects.

    • Temple Square
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      41 year ago

      It doesnt have to be centralized. Just allow power users a function in their Lemmy app of choice to “group” similar communities into one mega community per topic.

      Like a frontpage, but just for ONE topic.

      And then we could share lists with each other or something.