This would push users toward local posts (especially on smaller instances) while still supporting a better distribution of user engagement over the threadiverse. And if you don’t trust that it was implemented correctly – you can simply check it by counting the amounts of posts against your chosen probabilities.
Edit: changed feed name to mixed-feed
I’d prefer a more generalised multi community approach.
Being able to merge various android communities server side would be great.
Ok but that’s about the problem of redundancy in the threadiverse. That’s a different discussion.
I’m going to say something completely taboo.
I want an algorithm. I want something to watch what I’m doing and serve me content that I’ll enjoy.
Meaning that it will store your preference in a per user file and learn from your behavior. Tracking your every like and every comment, measuring every word you posted against every tagged key words available and serving you the most probable posts that matches the most with your profile.
And of course this would be open to the public given the nature of the fediverse. And then advertisers would just waltz in and pluck it from the records.
Sure! I’m anonymous here anyway. It’s the Internet. No one knows I’m a dog.
Well now, good boy, I guess!
Thank you, daddy
This sounds like a good clientside feature, idk about making it into main product.
I like the idea, but it should also include another feed specifically with subscribed smaller communities, since they’d still get buried under this system.
Honestly don’t bother with the customization by the user. That seems to be the solution to when anyone might object to something, but it just creates more confusion to the average user. Maybe keep it as a setting in the instance config. Less is more.
Mostly agree, except many people are fed-up with algorithms, so giving a manual option helps with that.
Thanks to @[email protected] for half of the idea
Thanks for your effort, especially the example screenshot! Your presentation with colors showcases the idea very well!
It’s not clear where the numeric preferences (e.g. 10/40/50) should be defined. Is it in user settings? Or should it be right next to the Subscribed/Explore/Local/All toggle? And is it a digit input field, or a graphical control like sliders? Anyways, details.
I’d also like the option to always show new posts or posts with new comments from favorited communities. This could help small communities and their subscribers to get things going.
Or well, we can implement both ideas with the same mechanic: Allow me to override the likelihood with which a post from a specific community shows up in my feed. This way, I can include both big and active communities in which I’m only mildly interested, and small and rarely active communities in which I’m very interested in the same feed.
It’s not clear where the numeric preferences (e.g. 10/40/50) should be defined. Is it in user settings? Or should it be right next to the Subscribed/Explore/Local/All toggle? And is it a digit input field, or a graphical control like sliders? Anyways, details.
I don’t know but yeah I think that would be details.
I’d also like the option to always show new posts or posts with new comments from favorited communities. This could help small communities and their subscribers to get things going.
But that’s what subscribed is for, right?
Or well, we can implement both ideas with the same mechanic: Allow me to override the likelihood with which a post from a specific community shows up in my feed. This way, I can include both big and active communities in which I’m only mildly interested, and small and rarely active communities in which I’m very interested in the same feed.
This could also be addressed by giving smaller communities slightly more weight in general. To prevent their posts not appearing because bigger more active communities. But I think that’s a different problem. Also, it was also trying to be addressed here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3907
Absolutely may I have this please
I like that idea.
I’d also like to be able to set the balance of new/top/hot
Made an issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2137
