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Anyone else missing posts in smaller Lemmy communities because they are overshadowed by the popular ones? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I tend to miss posts in smaller communities, no matter what sorting options I use when I display the "Subscribed" feed on the frontpage.

If I sort by "New", unsurprisingly most new posts are on the popular communities. Same if I select "Hot", "Active", or "Top Hour" etc. Overall it makes sense, small communities don't have new content as often, and threads there are not that "active" as there not many users.

I think the algorithm should somehow ensure a more diverse feed. There also no "multi-reddits" atm, so you can't just create a feed of those smaller communities.

Of course, I could create another account and only subscribe to small communities, but that's inconvenient. Simply checking them manually is what I do atm, but it's also not that convenient. A temporal solution might be using the RSS feeds, but overall it seems something should be done about it on Lemmy's end.

So, anyone else experiencing that or am I missing something? Because if I am not the only one then perhaps this issue should be brought to the attention of the devs (if it wasn't already).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What I did on Reddit and started out doing here is to only subscribe to the smaller niche communities in the first place. There's no reason to subscribe to the big ones, since they're going to show up on All anyway.

What I've started setting up here though - I have accounts on a bunch of different instances and I'm looking to add a few more, because my eventual goal is to use different instances to get different experiences.

That's the way it already works to some degree. Since a community isn't shared with a federated instance unless and until someone from the instance subscribes to it, the "All" that different instances show actually reflects the preferences of the people on that instance. So for instance, it's already the case that if you view the "All" displayed on a tech-focused instance, it's likely going to show every vaguely tech-oriented community out there, and not so much of anything else, because there are going to be lots of other things to which nobody on that instance has bothered to subscribe, so for all intents and purposes they just don't exist on that instance at all. And I expect that over time, that's just going to be more and more the case. So I assume that between the inclinations of different instances and a bit of judicious blocking, I can set it up so that I can go in through my account on one instance and get all the gaming/media/internet content I might ever want or go in through another one on a doiferent instance and get all the news/politics content I might ever want or go through another one and get all the art/literature/philosophy content and so on.