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why is like 30% of the content on Lemmy star trek related? is it just a side effect of the particular communities I'm in or is it an actual platform-wide thing?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Lemmy needs better sort options. Certain communities get a ton more posts than other communities, so their posts wind up being a huge percentage of the front page.

Lemmy needs a hot+diverse sort option that weights against posts in a community that already has a lot of posts on the the front page of hot.

I don't want to block those communities, i just want to see other topics too

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

I think the "scaled" option does that more or less

[–] aaaa 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm my experience the scaled sort just has the same problem only the opposite. You end up with a feed full of mostly brand new posts in empty communities.

Either a dozen posts by a moderator of one community, or a single user posting the same thing to a dozen vaguely related communities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

yeah, it's not the best. might be good to have an option that makes it so you can't get stuff from the same community more than a couple times in a row.