I’m new here. I came over because I’m annoyed at reddit, but I don’t quite understand how things are supposed to work.

As I understand it, Lemmy is like a reddit where a bunch of individuals run separate servers. My main interest is in /c/parenting.

I see that Lemmy.world’s /c/parenting has some posts. Lemmy.one has some. Lemmy.can has some, etc.

None of these sites individually has enough posts/people to be useful (network effect), but together, they could make up a useful forum.

How do I get all of the other lemmys’ /c/parenting posts to appear alongside the ones from Lemmy.world in the web interface?

  • bitofarambler@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    join the communities you’re interested in and then your “subscribed” feed will include all the posts from just those communities.

  • subversive_dev@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    I’m surprised this hasn’t been mentioned, but you can view all the posts across the network that are visible to your server in the “All” feed. I personally don’t even bother with subscribing anymore, I block the communities I’m not interested in

  • QuadratureSurfer@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    You can’t with Lemmy, yet. Maybe if you use a frontend client that supports it (like “blorp”, or “Interstellar”). However, if you use PieFed you can do this. Just set up what’s called a “Feed” and then you can combine all of the parenting communities into one.

    For example, this is what the “AllGaming” feed looks like: https://piefed.social/f/allgames

    There might be a feed already set up on the PieFed.world instance, otherwise you could be the one to set it up for everyone else.

    Compared to Lemmy, PieFed also allows you to use tags on posts, user flair, create polls, blur spoiler images, and it will also combine the comments of anything that’s been crossposted (separated into groups for each community) into a single post.

    • Mose13@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      Blorp dev here. If I’m understanding the problem correctly, there are multiple parenting communities that OP wants to combine into one. If that’s the case, you’re in luck because I just pushed an update to Blorp that improves support for PieFed’s multi community feeds. Someone just has to create a feed that combines all the parenting communities.

      I would start by creating an account on PieFed.social, try and setup the feed yourself on the official PieFed.social website (you can’t create feeds through Blorp yet), and if you get stuck ask in !piefed_help@piefed.social.

      Once the feed is created, you should be able to pull it up in Blorp. There is still a lot of improvement for feeds in Blorp, like listing all the feeds you’re subscribed to. Stay tuned.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
      2·
      2 days ago

      Added context: PieFed is an alternative to Lemmy but still can access the same communities and content through a different interface and different set of features. They are both interoperable.

  • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
    31·
    3 days ago

    You aren’t seeing other posters because there aren’t other posters lmao

  • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
    42·
    3 days ago

    You can’t on lemmy until lemmy 1.0 releases. It doesn’t have feed options.

    However, Piefed does. Piefed is another software that reads Lemmy instances and can do exactly what you want.

    EDIT: You could just only subscribe to all the parenting communities, although obviously that would be diluted if you subscribed to other things too.