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 year ago

    Because they’re different communities, and that would just be spamming a bunch of people you’re not directly engaging in.

    It’s the mail flier version of community engagement.

    Consider a community callled “politics” on lemmy.ca. Do you think they will want to be flooded by posts about American politics? UK politics? German politics?

    No. Probably not.

    They’re a different community, made up of different people, and if you don’t want to engage with that community in any real way, you should not thoughtlessly and automatically post things to it.