I tend to miss posts in smaller communities, no matter what sorting options I use when I display the “Subscribed” feed on the frontpage.

If I sort by “New”, unsurprisingly most new posts are on the popular communities. Same if I select “Hot”, “Active”, or “Top Hour” etc. Overall it makes sense, small communities don’t have new content as often, and threads there are not that “active” as there not many users.

I think the algorithm should somehow ensure a more diverse feed. There also no “multi-reddits” atm, so you can’t just create a feed of those smaller communities.

Of course, I could create another account and only subscribe to small communities, but that’s inconvenient. Simply checking them manually is what I do atm, but it’s also not that convenient. A temporal solution might be using the RSS feeds, but overall it seems something should be done about it on Lemmy’s end.

So, anyone else experiencing that or am I missing something? Because if I am not the only one then perhaps this issue should be brought to the attention of the devs (if it wasn’t already).

  • @[email protected]
    87•1 year ago

    That’d be great. Currently 90% of my feed is /c/memes and while I do find them entertaining, I also miss a ton of posts from smaller communities related to my hobbies that I would engage with more.

    • MentalEdge
      57•1 year ago

      It’s also preventing smaller subs from being discovered and growing.

      Seems there’s a PR for a “best” sorting option, which sorts by the top post from each sub, and then the second place post from each sub, and so on.

      Sounds perfect.

      • @HollowNotion
        10•1 year ago

        I haven’t looked at the PR, but if it’s really that simple, that doesn’t seem like the full solution. I don’t particularly want a sub with 10 users popping up on the front page after 3 upvotes just because it got to the top of that sub. Sub weight, as mentioned in the top comment here, should probably be taken in to account.

          • @HollowNotion
            2•1 year ago

            Doesn’t stop them from showing up via All and Local, which is what I want to do without having the completely block these communities. Just my preference.

    • @Zeth0s
      17•1 year ago

      I blocked meme, shitposting and 196.

      All is nicer now.

      I liked some of the memes but they were too many

      • @[email protected]
        5•1 year ago

        Best solution I’ve found is to block all of that on the main account and just switch over to another account if you feel like seeing the memes.

    • @[email protected]
      13•1 year ago

      Yeah, I had to leave memes because it was my whole feed. I feel like one of lemmy’s biggest potential selling points would be a scriptable feed. There are some small communities I want to see every post in, and other huge ones that I only want to see maybe the top 5 from.

    • neo (he/him)English
      5•1 year ago

      I’ve unfollowed /c/memes for exactly this reason. Not that I don’t like them, but I wanna see “literally anything else”

    • Wren 🪐
      2•1 year ago

      Yeah it would be really great to be able to make a temporary filter, like I’d love to be able to have my homepage without any content from Memes without having to unsubscribe