Is there a way to subscribe to all communities with the same name?

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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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I would like to keep things as they are now and simply add a sign up button next to the instance in the search window. That way they all stay separate but it doesn't take a lot of extra clicks to get signed up for everything. Or maybe we just have some site hosted by Lemmy devs that crawls for instances based on a keyword search that let's you sign up from there.

I get that. And definitely simpler. But what if a new community pops up? It sounds tedious to keep checking back in the search engine

Technically a notification could be if a instance using the same name pops up, but that wouldn't be that simple. I don't think its that tedious to check the list every once in a while.

As to the design I had an idea. It could be a list of instances using the name and at the top it has a join all button. Then instance has its own join button.

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