That's actually a pretty idea. I'm imaging something like a tool included into lemmy where you can collect different subs into one folder and even share these/export those folders as xml or json to a new account... And now we're talking about RSS-feeds. Basically.

But RSS-feeds included into lemmy. I don't really know if that would help to get rid of reposts, but it's certainly an interesting idea. Something one would have to integrate in an Lemmy update, so you would need to contribute to the Lemmy code.

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

I actually love this idea. I'm on a federated service, why do I need to go to 3 meme communities on 3 instances when I could go to "meme" and see all of them?

Crossposts from within the cross-feed could be automatically hidden to avoid showing the same post multiple times, and then we just start spreading the word to crosspost instead of reposting. I think the only issue is that this would definitely be better to implement client-side because AP is just a protocol to move data, whereas this requires checking too many user-defined variables to make it idiomatic easily. I could be wrong though, I don't know the AP code very well