I’ve noticed that the “All” feed on Lemmy is pretty much the same across all instances, showing posts from every instance regardless of the specific focus or community vibe of the instance you’re on. This seems like a missed opportunity to make the experience more tailored and engaging for each instance’s unique audience.
For example, if there were an instance dedicated to literature lovers, wouldn’t it make sense for the “All” feed on that instance to prioritize content that’s more relevant to people who enjoy books, poetry, and writing? Instead of being a global feed that shows everything from memes to tech news, it could reflect the interests and values of the instance’s community.
I feel like making the “All” feed more tailored to each instance would not only improve user experience but also strengthen the sense of community within each instance. What do you think? Would love to hear everyone’s thoughts!
The problem I see with this idea is that I have no idea who most people are on “my” instance or what sort of content they’re interested in. Even for a topic based instance like https://startrek.website/, outside of Star Trek, what are the chances that the interests of the members align?
The Lemmy developers were working on making user defined custom feeds. If that ever get implemented, I’d certainly give many ideas a try. But the Lemmy devs don’t have any new feed options on their priority list and I doubt they will anytime soon.
The main dev (only dev?) of piefed seems much more likely to implement new ideas. For example, I had mentioned that only botes from a community’s subscribers should be counted on posts to said community by default with the owner of the community given an option to count all votes. It was implemented within days.
All is meant to be everything, local exists for what you are talking about.
Seems like an opportunity to lose users. The whole instance thing is already kinda confusing for new people (source: just joined yesterday), but making every instance only connect to a select few instances would mean having to make an account on multiple different instances if you wanted to see a disparate selection of content. As much as I enjoy debating politics and religion I wouldn’t join a server that only showed those communities because I also like videos of huskies being sassy, battletech memes, etc.
All fetches content from every* instance that your instance knows about. In my opinion, making it different per instance is a horrible idea, because it would mean that some content may or may not be visible from a particuoar instance, and I’d have to keep checking different instances. Not to mention this would be confusing for people new to Lemmy (e.g. “why does this instance’s All look different from that one’s? I thought instances didn’t matter?”)
*except defederated instances, of course.
edit: So, thanks to this comment, I understood what you’re requesting, and it does seem like an interesting idea. However, rather than a seperate feed, this should just be a sort option.
Because “All” is everything, from every instance? You can already do what you want with “Local.”
Its only everything from other instances and communities that the current instance subscribes to. It doesn’t subscribe to the full pipe of everything.
What’s likely happening is people in aggregate generally subscribe to the most popular communities and those communities have the most upvoted posts.
Technically true, but since this tool got widely adopted it does mean pretty much a full pipe of everything: https://lemmy-federate.com/instances
