To me, the Local feed is one of the biggest strengths of Lemmy.
It allows having in the same platform a community/instance based feed (for example, Local in jlai.lu allows you to find most of the French activity in Lemmy), and at the same time, I can use “Subscribed” and/or “All” feeds to get a broader view of the Fediverse.
Without the “Local” view, Lemmy would just feel like another Reddit clone to me, where French communities would just be flooded by English-speaking communities. On Reddit, the French community actually had to create a subreddit dedicated to listing all French subreddits, just because the discoverability of non-English-speaking subreddits is just awful by default on Reddit.
And at the same time, I don’t see the need for “curation algorithms”. The “Subscribed” feed already fills this use case for me.
Without the “Local” view, Lemmy would just feel like another Reddit clone to me, where French communities would just be flooded by English-speaking communities. On Reddit, the French community actually had to create a subreddit dedicated to listing all French subreddits, just because the discoverability of non-English-speaking subreddits is just awful by default on Reddit.
That’s where multiredits (which are poorly advertised) come in (and are a wish list item here for aggregating multiple communities).
For example https://www.reddit.com/user/chiarastellata/m/french/ (notice the ‘m’ in there rather than ‘r’ or ‘u’) is a combination of several different French speaking subreddits that are aggregated into one feed.
Poorly advertised is an understatement, I never heard about this within Reddit xD I always thought that it was a third-party thing.
It is indeed similar to the “Local” feed from Lemmy then. However, it doesn’t have the “I’m part of a common family” feeling that I see in an instance like jlai.lu where we know that all users from the instance see the same content.
It was from a simpler time ( reddit post / archived blog post) … “reddit is vast. Unfathomably, mindbogglingly vast. There were over 71 million unique visitors last month. Yesterday, there were 5,487 active subreddits.”
On old reddit, if you had the left sidebar enabled, they showed up there. I’ve got quite a few private ones that I set up there that group my interests. https://old.reddit.com/r/multihub/
On new reddit, with the left sidebar showing, there’s “custom feeds” where you can do similar things, however its discoverability is much reduced. It’s only really visible if you favorite it so it shows up near the top of some lists / drop downs. If you still have a reddit account, and create a custom feed, you can create one, adds subs to it, make it public.
However, the difficulty with this is two part… discoverability (again) and the single ownership. The French subreddit that is a directory of other French subs is shared ownership. You’ll note with the multireddit its one person who maintains it… and that leads to abandonment.
A way to solve that (on reddit… yea, I know, talking about the other place here) is to have the shared ownership of the directory subreddit then drive scripts that update a bot account that publishes the public multireddit. You can see similar efforts with shared ownership and scripts https://hub.docker.com/u/redditopenttd (it doesn’t update a multi, but there’s no reason why it couldn’t).
Similar problems would need to be solved on Lemmy (including discovery and ownership) for the “how would you do an aggregation of multiple /c/ across multiple instances into one “bundle” and how / who maintains or curates it?”
To me, the Local feed is one of the biggest strengths of Lemmy. It allows having in the same platform a community/instance based feed (for example, Local in jlai.lu allows you to find most of the French activity in Lemmy), and at the same time, I can use “Subscribed” and/or “All” feeds to get a broader view of the Fediverse.
Without the “Local” view, Lemmy would just feel like another Reddit clone to me, where French communities would just be flooded by English-speaking communities. On Reddit, the French community actually had to create a subreddit dedicated to listing all French subreddits, just because the discoverability of non-English-speaking subreddits is just awful by default on Reddit.
And at the same time, I don’t see the need for “curation algorithms”. The “Subscribed” feed already fills this use case for me.
That’s where multiredits (which are poorly advertised) come in (and are a wish list item here for aggregating multiple communities).
For example https://www.reddit.com/user/chiarastellata/m/french/ (notice the ‘m’ in there rather than ‘r’ or ‘u’) is a combination of several different French speaking subreddits that are aggregated into one feed.
Poorly advertised is an understatement, I never heard about this within Reddit xD I always thought that it was a third-party thing.
It is indeed similar to the “Local” feed from Lemmy then. However, it doesn’t have the “I’m part of a common family” feeling that I see in an instance like jlai.lu where we know that all users from the instance see the same content.
But TIL, thank you :)
It was from a simpler time ( reddit post / archived blog post) … “reddit is vast. Unfathomably, mindbogglingly vast. There were over 71 million unique visitors last month. Yesterday, there were 5,487 active subreddits.”
On old reddit, if you had the left sidebar enabled, they showed up there. I’ve got quite a few private ones that I set up there that group my interests. https://old.reddit.com/r/multihub/
On new reddit, with the left sidebar showing, there’s “custom feeds” where you can do similar things, however its discoverability is much reduced. It’s only really visible if you favorite it so it shows up near the top of some lists / drop downs. If you still have a reddit account, and create a custom feed, you can create one, adds subs to it, make it public.
However, the difficulty with this is two part… discoverability (again) and the single ownership. The French subreddit that is a directory of other French subs is shared ownership. You’ll note with the multireddit its one person who maintains it… and that leads to abandonment.
A way to solve that (on reddit… yea, I know, talking about the other place here) is to have the shared ownership of the directory subreddit then drive scripts that update a bot account that publishes the public multireddit. You can see similar efforts with shared ownership and scripts https://hub.docker.com/u/redditopenttd (it doesn’t update a multi, but there’s no reason why it couldn’t).
Similar problems would need to be solved on Lemmy (including discovery and ownership) for the “how would you do an aggregation of multiple /c/ across multiple instances into one “bundle” and how / who maintains or curates it?”