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I've been on here a lot, and I use the different sorts. The think with smaller communities is how many times do you want to show the post that was made last week as new? Until someone comments in them or makes another post it's not going to bring it up in new or hot.
Maybe a random sort option could help?
But it really comes down to engagement. Engage with the smaller communities and they'll show up more.
I'm not sure exactly how the "best" feed on reddit worked, but I think that'd be a great addition.
I think big communities overshadowing smaller ones is just an inherent issue with sorting by hot or active.
I used reddit in a way where I would check out my front page, and then go to my favorite (smaller) subs to specifically look for things that wouldn't make it to the front page. Unfortunately, I've not followed through with that after leaving reddit, because I'm on kbin and it's pretty annoying to get to your followed magazines (as they're called), and I see indications about making some of them "favorite" but I don't think that functionality actually exists yet.
I'm sure it will get there eventually.
I had to unfollow ”politics” because it took over my entire homepage. It’s a bummer because the I like seeing the occasional political post. I’m guessing they drive more engagement and that’s why they’re so ”loud”.
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.