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Cake day: February 4th, 2025

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  • Thanks for pointing me in the right direction(s). To summarize my request: I’d love to have a way to bundle multiple communities into a single section or feed in order to focus on a specific topic (and take breaks from… others). The obvious parallel from Reddit is a MultiReddit. For examples of how I use them:

    • Games: Just games and related topics. A nice place to indulge in a hobby
    • HappyPlace: No, not like that. These are cute pics and videos of animals, dogs, art and photography, a place to relax and remember the world can be good

    I see this as one of the most useful and even powerful features of a community-based system like Lemmy. Would love to have this option here











  • I feel like this kind of misses the point. To be clear: If someone absolutely cannot avoid installing slop apps and enabling notifications for everything, I can see their need for an ultra minimal device or other solution. But I also think that speaks to a larger, personal discussion about discipline and possibly addiction, but that’s outside the realm of this thread.

    My point is we can choose which apps, notifications, features, and algorithms are allowed to get our attention. It’s easy to turn off all notifications or never even allow them in the first place—after all, apps have to ask for that permission in the first place.

    But the choice is the point. If someone is traveling somewhere they probably want maps to tell them important information about the journey. Otherwise why turn on directions at all? That’s the entire point.

    We even have the ability to disable all texting notifications but also choose to allow them from certain people if they’re important enough. These devices are simply tools and we have the power to choose how they operate. The device isn’t the problem, it’s our choices.