Feeds are a combination of communities into one, like multireddit or mastodon tags.
Try it out!
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100%. Rimu, jollyroberts and andrew are all amazing people, providing both piefed and .social itself for free. They work very hard, and hell, the feeds PR was only created 4 days ago, and pushed today!
Piefed and its devs deserve way more :D
So do I understand correctly that these are identical to Topics, except customizable without requiring backend changes?
Sweet!
Exactly :)
Neat, it federates. Seems to work similar to a normal community, so it should be easy to follow these feeds from Lemmy.
While the actor is a
Group
and you can follow it, no posts areAnnounced
. 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 anAccept
.Also there are
Add
andRemove
activities sent out whenever the feed owner manages the list of communities within which would need to be handled.Documentation still to come…