Viewing posts by all tends to be dominated by a few communities
https://lemmy.world/post/1723295
Viewing posts by all tends to be dominated by a few communities - Lemmy.world
I’ve noticed that there are a few communities that tend to dominate when viewing
all. Some days it gets to where looking at all isn’t very different than just
looking at [email protected] [[email protected]] or [email protected]. Before
someone says “you can just block communities you don’t want to see,” it’s not
that I never want to see them, it’s that I want to be able to have a view that
shows me what is new and popular in a wide variety of communities. I appreciate
seeing a few good memes in my feed. The problem is when that’s all I see.
Changing the sort from active to hot or top x days doesn’t have much effect on
which communities dominate, so that isn’t the solution either. Lemmy devs - if
you are reading this - it would be nice to have a feed that limited the number
of posts showing up from any particular community. It could be a simple cutoff
of 2 or 3 posts, or maybe some wort of weighting function to cause additional
posts from the same community to appear lower in the sort order for that feed.
I’d love to hear what devs and other uses think about this.
I see the same thing as you and decided to try and post more about the topics that interest me, also for me “Hot” sort tends to yield more variety compared to “Active”
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lemmy.fmhy.ml/comment/1180416 it’s a direct copy/paste of that comment plus one sentence
Viewing lemmy posts by all tends to be dominated by a few communities - FMHY
I’ve noticed that there are a few communities that tend to dominate when viewing
all. Some days it gets to where looking at all isn’t very different than just
looking at [email protected] [[email protected]] or [email protected]. Before
someone says “you can just block communities you don’t want to see,” it’s not
that I never want to see them, it’s that I want to be able to have a view that
shows me what is new and popular in a wide variety of communities. I appreciate
seeing a few good memes in my feed. The problem is when that’s all I see.
Changing the sort from active to hot or top x days doesn’t have much effect on
which communities dominate, so that isn’t the solution either. “You can just
subscribe to communities you like”. True, but that has the effect of narrowing
what I see. I’d like a view that showed me new things I never thought to
subscribe to. Lemmy devs - if you are reading this - it would be nice to have a
feed that limited the number of posts showing up from any particular community.
It could be a simple cutoff of 2 or 3 posts, or maybe some sort of weighting
function to cause additional posts from the same community to appear lower in
the sort order for that feed. I’d love to hear what devs and other users think
about this. Edit: To everyone saying “just sort be new” - yes, that has its
uses, but it only solves part of the problem. I’d like a feed that shows me what
is new and popular, but from more than just one or two communities.