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Just had a thought about feed sterilization (self.asklemmy)

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

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I began noticing on Reddit (official mobile app) that if I hadn’t viewed a community in a while, it would NEVER show up in my feed. I always assumed this was Reddit trying to play “Facebook” BS - safe to assume with Lemmy that won’t be the case?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

safe to assume with Lemmy that won’t be the case?

That likely wont be the case. Excluding bugs, the methods for Hot, Active, etc. are pretty well defined in the Lemmy documentation (can't comment on Kbin). And how they're sorted is identifiable in the source code with enough technical knowledge. If there were any "dark patterns" to drive engagement or make it more Facebook-ified it would be readily apparent from looking through the source. More importantly, I don't think there's a strong motive for something like that currently. If certain instances decide to go ad-supported I can see a fork in the frontend source code to support those types of practices happening though.