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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] 3 points 1 year ago

I think this problem is relegated to being registered to larger instances. On one hand you get lots to choose from when it comes to your local feed, similar to how Mastodon works, on the other hand you have the problem you just mentioned. I know you bring up the problem of narrowing what you see, but if you're going to be on a big instance, there really is no other way than to subscribe to those communities you have a specific interest in. I'm on a smaller instance and I just take the time to go through communities that I may have an even fleeting interest in and subscribe to them, avoiding larger generic communities. This is the same strategy I employ when it comes to my news feed as well. I only subscribe to RSS feeds from sites I have an interest in.