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?

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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (5 children)

It's a web app? Lemmy's CORS settings are messed up, I assume you have to route all requests through a proxy?

That was a nightmare for my app

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (4 children)

    Yeah, it's a web app. I route all requests through my own backend, so it's server-server communication between Nemmy and any Lemmy instance, circumventing CORS by design.

    Are you sure the CORS settings are messed up? I tried reaching the API a couple of times from my frontend for debugging and got errors due to authentication security. Are you referring to that or something else?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

    You'll get a "Forbidden" error and if you check the request, it'll say "Forbidden: Cross origin requests are not allowed"

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Ah, yes the classic. The Lemmy dev team really forgot to set CORS headers on an API lmao. Hope they fix that soon.

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