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?

  • @[email protected]
    17•1 year ago

    I would like to keep things as they are now and simply add a sign up button next to the instance in the search window. That way they all stay separate but it doesn’t take a lot of extra clicks to get signed up for everything. Or maybe we just have some site hosted by Lemmy devs that crawls for instances based on a keyword search that let’s you sign up from there.

    • @[email protected]OP
      13•1 year ago

      I get that. And definitely simpler. But what if a new community pops up? It sounds tedious to keep checking back in the search engine

      • @[email protected]
        8•1 year ago

        Technically a notification could be if a instance using the same name pops up, but that wouldn’t be that simple. I don’t think its that tedious to check the list every once in a while.

        As to the design I had an idea. It could be a list of instances using the name and at the top it has a join all button. Then instance has its own join button.

        • Temple Square
          4•1 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.