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Viewing lemmy posts by all tends to be dominated by a few communities (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd agree if the coms in question were niche but so far in my experience they never are. When it comes to communities dominating All, it's always bottom-of-the-barrel memes and porn. The posts from non-garbage communities that show up are usually by themselves

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone’s definition of bottom of the barrel will be different, and nobody’s personal content preferences should be forced on the community as a whole. If you really dislike those communities that much you can block them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do, my blocklist is quite large already

The point I'm making is that the communities that would be most affected (negatively) by it are the giant low effort meme/shitpost ones that don't "need" the exposure to thrive because they're general interest communities

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right now those communities are more important than ever. They are what's going to bring more people here and grow the fediverse. I don't want to start hiding popular content at a time when Lemmy most needs to be popular.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is the goal of Lemmy to follow the reddit playbook where quantity is more important than quality? I much prefer thoughtful, specific content to "mass appeal" content. There's no shortage of places to find the latter, why does it need to be the focus here?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The goal is likely going to be different based on what community you're in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because this is donation-funded. Having a big audience is the only thing that can ensure financial stability long term.?

And I don’t think content that is funny rather than informative is inherently bad or less important. There’s nothing wrong with this place being fun and not just some stuffy content classroom.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The real issue I see is that it's all reposted reddit content so Lemmy looks like a crappy clone instead of being its own thing. For those who enjoy those posts, why would they switch to a site that has the same posts but with empty comments sections?

I'm not saying it's some huge problem or anything. I just don't think limiting the amount of frontpage posts per community will negatively affect the site

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I joined because I still want the same content without the asshole owner. I’m here for the different power structure, not because I hated Reddit’s content.