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r/selfhosted is still rising, WTF? Come to Lemmy!!! (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago by peregus to c/selfhosted

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Hi all! I used to be a daily r/selfhosted lurker and a bit active user. Since the Reddit saga I thought that r/selfhosted would be one of the first and bigger community to move to Lemmy due to the IT knowledge of all of their users and the sensitivity about self host/privacy/open source, but I see that not only the community is still all there, but it's rising. :( That really makes me sad. How can we convince the mods there to move people here? Is it allowed to talk about Lemmy on Reddit or do we risk of being banned?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm happy to help provide answers on my fields of interests but they are pretty much dead on Lemmy for now, it's a chicken and egg thing.

It doesn't help that because we don't really have good algorithms, my feed is dominated by generalist topics, memes, news and tech stuff. So even if I subscribe to smaller communities, if I don't intentionally go visit them they're never in my feed.

We need to better surface posts from smaller communities by having a weighted algorithm so that your feed is a mix of big and small communities.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This was actually mentioned in an issue on the github. I can't quite remember whether it was turned down or just inactive. I totally agree. If we're going to compete with big social medias then we also need some kind of algorithms. Opt-in/out of course.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't Hot supposed to work like that? When it's not broken, of course.

I feel like some simple algorithm like the ones used in dithering may be used to mix up the feed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My understanding was that hot was just posts with rapidly increasing upvotes, but it's still not weighed between big and small (could definitely be wrong).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You're probably right. I should go check out the source at some point.