I tend to miss posts in smaller communities, no matter what sorting options I use when I display the “Subscribed” feed on the frontpage.
If I sort by “New”, unsurprisingly most new posts are on the popular communities. Same if I select “Hot”, “Active”, or “Top Hour” etc. Overall it makes sense, small communities don’t have new content as often, and threads there are not that “active” as there not many users.
I think the algorithm should somehow ensure a more diverse feed. There also no “multi-reddits” atm, so you can’t just create a feed of those smaller communities.
Of course, I could create another account and only subscribe to small communities, but that’s inconvenient. Simply checking them manually is what I do atm, but it’s also not that convenient. A temporal solution might be using the RSS feeds, but overall it seems something should be done about it on Lemmy’s end.
So, anyone else experiencing that or am I missing something? Because if I am not the only one then perhaps this issue should be brought to the attention of the devs (if it wasn’t already).
A smart sort would be great. Maybe even some custom settings for it, like weights for community, upvotes, replies, etc.
@peter @argentcorvid algorithms aren’t evil, the important part was always control over how it works.
The fediverse is in an excellent position to first recreate the problem of having too much and then someone will take one for the team and develop some easy to configure filter that weights things properly.
Give it 6 months…
Yeah it’s the reason, back on Reddit, that I’m able to see posts from smaller subreddits show up near the top of my feed because it’s popular relative to the number of subscribers of that subreddit.
I just unsubscribe from communities which appear in All anyway, it’s a pretty good solution IMO.
Yeah 90% is just the memes community because its so big, memes are a big part why i joined reddit and now lemmy, but it’s just to much, i want variety at my feed!
Especially with the retro memes thing going on, I found it funny like the first 10 post, but it’s getting on my nerves already. I wonder what people that came here just now have to think
I look forward to when “multireddits” are implemented in Lemmy, I used that feature all the time on Reddit.
Although it’d still be an issue that the smaller communities are simply lacking in activity in general, I guess.
I do like talking to myself IRL too, but there’s a limit to even that lol
sadly i don’t think it’s coming soon, i looked at github, there you can open a “issue” (feature ideas, bugs). One of the rules is no multiple issues, so searched if someone requested it and there is one about mutireddits thats chilling there since 2020 and another from 2021
I have kinda solved this accidentally. I have accounts on multiple instances. One them has no filters and the other one has all meme communities blocked and nsfw turned off. Now if I load all@lemmy.world I see everything, but all@feddit.nl is a nicely trimmed feed.
This works well if you use Liftoff on android at least.
I had to unfollow ”politics” because it took over my entire homepage. It’s a bummer because the I like seeing the occasional political post. I’m guessing they drive more engagement and that’s why they’re so ”loud”.
