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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

I'm not so sure that people want to join the biggest party. I follow a lot of similarly named/themed magazines/communities because I don't want to miss interesting or informative content. The content i like might not get that much engagement (upvotes or boosts). I guess this is similar to what I followed on Reddit.

Right now kbin.social has the categories Subscribed and All (this is what I see on mobile). Maybe we need a Favorites category as well for the mags/comms we like the most.

I like to check out memes but there has been a flood of them. So I don't subscribe to those mags/comms because I know I will find them easily on the All queue regardless.

ETA: I love that there is no algorithm showing me more of what I've already engaged with or more of what it thinks I want. I like being exposed to new stuff that I didn't know I wanted to read about.