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Is there a way to derank certain magazines on user side? Something between full blocking and full allowing a magazine? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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

Fine, you are welcome to stay with the meme enjoyers. It makes me wonder why you are not on reddit. If reddit "does it so well" why didn't you stay on reddit?

I'd at least hope you were arguing in good faith, but you're obviously not. I pointed out specific features of Reddit which, in my opinion, worked fairly well, and I pointed out how they could work here as well. That doesn't mean I had any reason to stay in Reddit.

You've mostly deviated from the subject and assume that most people are exactly like you, hate memes and all "thrash" content - by your definition that everything you dislike is thrash. I disagree with that. I think most people like generalist topics, thus why they flow towards those communities.

Mastodon, having existed for longer, is a good example. The main generalist instances are far bigger than the specific tech or art ones. But, because they haven't defederated from each other, everyone can sit in their favourite instances, in which the local content most suits their tastes, but still interact with one another. You can go on fosstodom and mostly see FOSS related topics on the local view, while being able to interact with more generalist instances like mastodon.social at will. If fosstodon had defederated from mastodon.social, it likely would've lost many of its users as they'd probably not like being in an instance that forbids general content.

Being in an instance with people who share similar topics is fine. Defederating from general instances, though, just puts you in a small bubble. I don't understand why you reject that any other solution other than defederation might work when it has worked for Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc.

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

I'd at least hope you were arguing in good faith, but you're obviously not

Can't you just say "I disagree with you" instead of accusing people of arguing in bad faith? What's so hard with explaining why you left reddit?

Being in an instance with people who share similar topics is fine. Defederating from general instances, though, just puts you in a small bubble.

Wow, what a colossal waste of time it was. I spent time explaining the thing and that's all I've got in return.

I don't understand why you reject that any other solution other than defederation might work when it has worked for Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc.

The mass of content is different, the type of content is different. I don't know why you compare them. Reddit is the closest example of what we are aiming for and you refused to answer why you left reddit.

I'm done, I'm not spending more time with this.