Is it possible to automatically subscribe to all (federated) communities with the same name?
Example in the screenshot: I want to follow !astronomy, and I don’t really care whether the content is coming from from Lemmy.World, kbin.social and mander.xyz - I just want to see it all.
Obviously I could manually subscribe to them all, but is it possible to do so automatically? Ideally if a new similar community pops up on another instance, I wouldn’t miss it.
I read here that community grouping is a thing, so that instances with identical communities can work together. Is that a feature that could work towards this end?
Not exactly what you’re looking for, but kbin’s search functionality can give you a list to find every community with that name that’s federated on their instance:
https://kbin.social/magazines?q=astronomy
While it’s not a one-button solution, it does make subbing much faster. Note that on Kbin, communities are magazines (aka subreddits).