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Personally, I wouldnโt want them spending precious development time on this when you could just block the community and set a reminder on your phone for whenever you want to unblock it.
I don't want them blocked outright, though. I just want better feed algorithms. It shouldn't just be whoever spams the most takes over my entire feed. The number of posts from any given community that show up in subscribed, local, all, etc. should be limited so that smaller communities aren't pushed out of existence.
I just prefer sorting options that don't weigh posts. Like New or New Comments. I don't have nearly as many similar posts appearing on the front page sorting by New Comments, and only posts with high levels of discussion stay on the FP.
If you're going to sort by things that count all metrics to determine what's "popular," it's always going to be memes and low effort bullshit.
I think better algorithms wouldn't be a waste of developer resources. At the end of the day, the post feed algorithm is the core product, IMO.
Figuring out how to lower the weights on highly active subs is a good idea. As is ranking smaller subs' content appropriately.
For all it's faults, Reddit's algorithm was pretty good. There was always a decent mix of small and large subs on my feed.
Kbin's post ranking overall seems better than Lemmy's and that was a major factor in me choosing it as my home base.
I mean, they wouldn't need to...this is something any of us in the community could hypothetically contribute with a bit of specific knowledge and/or inspiration, but yours is a surprisingly effective and relatively low-tech solution so upvote for you good person