Rimu

That sounds awesome!

Maybe PieFed’s new feeds feature could be used to combine communities in interesting ways - https://piefed.social/post/500805

I appreciate your words of caution. Remember this feature is very new and will no doubt get a lot more finesse added in future. There’s no point building some baroque all singing-all-dancing perfect thing unless we’re sure people will use it and by releasing earlier we get valuable feedback which determines whether we continue building that feature at all, etc. It’s very bare-bones at the moment.

The feed creator needs to know about the communities so they can type/paste the community address in, yeah. This feature takes the expert fediverse landscape knowledge contained in the heads of the terminally online and makes it available to more casual/new users.

While the actor is a Group and you can follow it, no posts are Announced. All the federation of posts is still driven by the individual communities within the feed. You’ll need to modify Lemmy to add the logic of subscribing to the constituent communities when you receive an Accept.

Also there are Add and Remove activities sent out whenever the feed owner manages the list of communities within which would need to be handled.

Documentation still to come…

Possibly. (Subscribing to a feed does actually subscribe you to all the communities in the feed. So technically they are not drive-by comments by non-members. But I see what you mean.)

Discoverability is a huge huge problem with all federated platforms and this will significantly alleviate that.

Yes, that is high on the agenda.

Sorry, can’t remember which post it is.