We’re working on a multireddit feature which will let people join or leave large groups of related Communities with a single click, and see all the posts from those communities in a single list. These groups will be crowd-sourced, so anyone can create or share collections of Communities around their interests. Basically the same as https://piefed.social/topics except crowd-sourced (and federated?).

We’re stuck on what to call this feature, though, and your creativity could really help us out! Here are some ideas we’ve been tossing around:

  • Bundles
  • Community Packs
  • PieSlices
  • Stacks
  • QuickJoin Packs
  • Collections (kbin called it this)
  • Topics (we call them this now but they’re all maintained by the instance admin)

Which of these do you like best? Do you have any suggestions of your own? We’re aiming for something that’s easy to understand, catchy, and fits the PieFed ethos. I’ll copy those suggestions into individual comments on this post so people can upvote what resonates with them.

The problem I have with ideas like “Collections” or “Topics” is those concepts have no relation to “Communities” which increases the learning new users need to do while getting comfortable. Something more intuitive like “Towns” is more obviously a larger or group of “Communities”, for example.

Please throw your ideas into the comments below and vote on what you see!

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
    612·
    6 days ago

    “Feeds”

    A feed is a source of posts. Doesn’t matter if it’s a Lemmy community, a multireddit-analogue, an RSS feed, or whatever. You can subscribe or unsubscribe to that source of posts, or you can create and share your own feed for other people, or configure your feeds.

    • maegul (he/they)English
      7·
      6 days ago

      Yes this is probably the best answer, where it being vanilla is part of the point.

      You can easily combine it with other words to make it more clear too. “Community Feed” for instance. Or “Pie Feed” if you want to lean into the branding/mascot. But the “feed” core remains and explains what it is.

      What’s more, as people may hate it, BlueSky is basically using the same term for the same generic idea (custom bundling of content streams).

      • astro_ray@piefed.socialEnglish
        6·
        6 days ago

        Yeah, using feeds in combination with other terms really makes it perfect. It is intuitive for SNS users and covers a broad range of meaning, appropriate for this usecase.

  • gjoel@programming.dev
    4·
    5 days ago

    Lemmy is kinda rat related, so the feature of collecting multiple communities together, say, by tying their tails together, could be described as rat kings.

    • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      As much as I really like bundles, multicomms and feeds for their more versatile feel, I really love that this one conveys the social context through the name

      It feels intrinsically human and about human connection

      • maegul (he/they)English
        2·
        6 days ago

        So my argument for “feed” is that it’s more of a functional category than a description. Which means you can combine it with other terms. Like village, to convey what sort of feed it is.

        A “Village feed” would be one aiming for a certain degree of cooperative spirit or something. While a “User feed” would be just someone’s random interests.

  • solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    21·
    6 days ago

    Part of the linguistic challenge is that community is already pretty broad, and can include multiple layers. A community can be made up of other community or just be part of a larger one.

    If it wasn’t already loaded with even more meaning, something like “nation” might be appropriate.

    Society?

    Edit: I don’t actually think we should have something overly specific to fedi verse. I agree with having something like “feed”, it’s common language that people are more likely to already understand as long as the implementation is close enough to existing analogous functionality.