• toast@retrolemmy.com
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      2 months ago

      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.

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      2 months ago

      https://dubvee.org/about reportedly has it.

      Community Favorites and Grouping

      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.