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 read something the other day that they’re working on a new sorting algorithm that would limit it to the top few posts from each community within a given time frame. Specifically to address this issue.

No idea on timeframe or further details, or if I even summarized it correctly lol.

I really hope they consider doing a multi subscription sorr as well. I miss being able to go to just the news or just funny, etc.

Yes, they are working on a so called “best” sorting: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3378

And yes, they are working on “multi”: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

Feature sort by best by L3v3L · Pull Request #3378 · LemmyNet/lemmy

This will add sort by best. see: #1026 In the case of posts: sort by top posts but by community example result: 1st place post from community A 1st place post from community B 1st place post from c...

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Sweetest, pretty close to perfect then. Thanks.