Yes, inspired by…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jWGbvemTag
Lemmy MultipPass is a proposal to implement a system for: 1) sharing subscribed communities list publicly. 2) Creating specific MultiPass community lists that are not owned by any one person but instead managed like a Community with multiple moderators.
You may know the concept of “MultiPass” as “MultiReddit”, multiple subreddit viewing. Basically a way to build a subscribe community list that is shared. Right now, Lemmy 0.18.4 era has only you personal subscribe list or a single community.
I created a posting about the privacy concern of sharing community list openly: https://lemmy.ml/post/3663416
Worth a mention…
One thing that MultiReddit has on Reddit… is a way to specify on the URL which communities you want blended. Example, 2 subreddits in one URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter+WhitePeopleTwitter/
I’m currently not including that ability in the scope of the design. As there are multiple front-end apps for Lemmy in active use and expanding the development scope is not what I’m looking to do ;)
Even if the design solves the “multiple people can edit the list” problem, there are many issues within Lemmy right now that do not make it robust. Right now, there is no way to re-home a community when the home instance goes down. That would still impact MultiPass - because the edits to the PlayList/CommunityList would still have to be federated/replicated to all other instances by the home instance the community was first crated on.
If anything, this project serves to highlight some of the longer-term needs of Lemmy’s core programming.
MultiReddit was widely introduced in 2013, a decade ago. But Reddit already supported blending multiple communities OTHER than the Join/subscribe/member list…
It’s the idea of sharing the lists with others more deliberately that was what was new in 2013.
With Lemmy, I think there is more need than ever to discover communities and explore. There has been an explosion of instances and communities, finding the quality ones is where a good Multi editor group comes in…
I think some people don’t look at this as a pretty straight-forward topic: right now Lemmy has only one Playlist for what you want, and it requires you to log-in to even use that Playlist. Having the ability to change Playlist is pretty core to any multi-media tool.
A down-side…
One side-effect of having the ability to share subscribed lists is that you don’t have to actually subscribe. The list itself will be viewed as a single subscriber, even if 10 people are using that list. I assume multi-reddit had this same general issue. And, of course, “All” works that same way.
So some communities may feel like their subscriber count is low compared to “users/week”- which Lemmy does go out of way to show both… so It’s kind of covered by the “users/week” which IIRC - counts posts and comments as active users. Not sure if voting in a community counts as activity…