Does anybody know if there's anything like a Lemmy + kbin client that could connect to these multiple fora and build a feed that looks somewhat like what you'd see on Reddit? These individual instances remind me a lot of old forums, which is great, but what I like (liked?) about Reddit was having the ability to subscribe to multiple, high quality subreddits and have them all in a single feed.
I think kbin has the best interface and I am hoping they get “multireddits” implemented soon so you can combine communities from multiple servers into a single view
Blocking interactions would be understandable but also blocking read-only subscriptions seem like a mistake.
Edit: Figured out myself. It wasn't that difficult :) I agree with others that this needs to be mentioned more often. But, when I searched for "dotnet" in lemmy.world, it didn't return "https://kbin.social/m/dotnet" as one of the search results. Is this due to defederation? Is there a way to add a community using a unique identifier instead of searching for it?
It's kind of complicated, but is only a problem for new instances and new communities. After everything is established, it'll be a lot easier.
I expect the software will continue to improve, though, so these rough edges will eventually be taken care of. I hope. :D
Some of them seem legit, but a majority of what I clicked seem like random people trying to ride the drama and make their own spin-offs.
Finding a post using a kbin/lemmy server and then copying and pasting the url into mastodon in order to interact with it is not practical.
I have also seen a lot of people say they ended up subscribed in a way that resulted in getting all comments instead of only top level posts when they subscribed to communities, which is also not at all practical. Is there a way to subscribe to top level posts within a community?
There's also some defederation issues, so you may need several accounts and then stich them all into one feed to truly get everything you want, but I've not attempted that.