Some instances and groups are very chatty (*gestures to /lemmyshitposts), so much so that they dominate the All page.
I knew that there would be a point that browsing /all would no longer be a pleasant or feasible experience, but I quite liked having a pulse on what everyone in the #threadiverse (that kbin.social federates to, anyway) are thinking. But right now it seems @memes is dominating everything.
I don’t want to fully block them from showing up in my feed, but i don’t want to let them full send either. Would it be feasible to add a feature in future releases to be able to adjust the algorhythm on the user-side that would allow for mutes, or deranking it in your feed, instead of outright blocking it?
I was just getting ready to post something like this as well. We need a way to put a ‘slow-mode’ on certain communities. I don’t want to block them entirely because I enjoy them too, but at this point /all is literally all shitposts and memes. Even scrolling way down (infinite scroll) it’s all memes all the way down.
I want to be able to discover other communities and engage and grow them, but we just can’t see any of them with all the memes.
I’ve been sorting by new and active for this, but agree with your sentiment
Perhaps it would be possible to make the all feed collapse posts that fall under the same community? Something like “x posted on somemagazine, with y other posts today” which would just link to the community?
I do agree that the memes have been fun but also it’s kind of dominated my feed lately – I’ve had to stick to /sub
We could use the Reddit approach to Hot (in Reddit’s equivalent to /sub):
- Show the hottest post
- Show the hottest post that isn’t in a magazine from which a post was already shown
- Repeat step 2 until we’ve reached a minimum level of hotness
- Show the rest in order of hotness regardless of which magazine they came from
Ideally you’d replace Step 4 with something that recursively applies steps 1-3 to what’s left over, but since Reddit doesn’t do that, I assume it would be too computationally expensive.
My naive guess to how Reddit does it would be that they do two SQL commands that look something like this
WITH CTE AS (
SELECT *
,row_number() OVER(PARTITION BY magazine ORDER BY heat) AS row_num
FROM posts
)
SELECT *
FROM cte
WHERE row_num = 1
ORDER BY heat;
followed by
SELECT *
FROM posts
WHERE id<> $IDs_of_previous_request
ORDER BY heat;
Good news, just like Reddit enhancement suite, kbin has kbin enhancement suite going. Why don’t you ask them if they can do this.
It might be kinda hard to pull off, but I’ll see what I can do. I’m not sure if KES can be used to (easily) modify the post rankings, but I think randomly hiding them based on a factor you set could work well. So if you set it to 50% for @memes, it’ll hide half of the posts from there on average.
It’s not perfect, but I think it strikes the right balance between seeing every post and blocking it. I’m busy this weekend but I’ll create an issue on KES’s GitHub repo and someone might beat me to it.
This might be a bad suggestion, but would it be possible to do something like mute community for x hours? So until now reaches a timestamp, hide posts from that community (sort of like discords mute channel for x hours). That way people could be like “I’m done with memes for now, but want to see them when I wake up”
You may also want to consider requesting this as a feature for https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisApp
https://kbin.social/u/hariette is implementing a feature where your subs home page can be “sprinkled” with posts from communities you don’t already follow. See:
What you’re asking for is a variation of that.
Agreed, custom aggregators for kbin and the fedverse in general, will become a thing.
I can see a view that combines the hot posts from each of my subbed communities, with the top 1 or two posts from each featuring, filtering over a time constraint or some other ranking system.
A client side implementation would be possible, but expensive in api calls. Server side should be easier. Maybe even defining a query language of sorts that can be user customised, if we wanted to be really fancy.
Some form of weighted rank, combining activity and interaction. I am subbed to some slow communities that are just starting. Maybe having a post or two in 24 hours where I would want those posts to rank highest. Subbed fast paced communities would then rank lower if we factor frequency and interaction on a per community basis.
Yes, Hariette has been super responsive to the community. They’re a fan of Apollo and they’re trying to bring that same community interaction between users and their development of the app. Looking forward to it.
I’ve just blocked all memes communities for now. It was funny the first few times but it got old real quick.