PieFed just added a multi-reddit feature, which we’re calling “Feeds”. It combines multiple Communities (actors of type “Group” in ActivityPub) into one.
Feeds can be followed from other PieFed instances, which will subscribe the follower to all the communities in the feed.
Try it out at https://piefed.social/feeds
It’s similar to PieFed’s concept of a Topic https://piefed.social/topics, except topics are maintained by the instance admins. Feeds are crowdsourced and federated topics.
When you subscribe to the feed (which you can do from a remote Piefed instance, you don’t need to be on the same instance as the feed), behind the scenes PieFed subscribes you to all the communities within. If the feed owner adds a community then all the feed subscribers automatically follow/join the new community too.
The content is essentially the same. Compare https://lemmy.world/c/news with https://piefed.social/c/[email protected].
Some differences listed at https://join.piefed.social/features/
Thanks, interesting! The reputation feature sounds intriguing.
I tried checking out https://piefed.social/c/[email protected], but it doesn’t look like it has any content or updates from the last 4 months, what’s up with that?
Not sure what happened there. It only had 1 subscriber so I’ve just joined too and hopefully that’ll make it receive content in future.
Sounds like fodder for a bug report. You’re welcome :P