cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5157579

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’s name from explore to mixed

  • @blue_berryOP
    2•9 months ago

    Ok, I take that.

    So the thing is: I don’t want to push users towards the Local-feed. That’s just what currently happening if you go to the front page. Local is selected as default. You can switch to All but often enough, I at least don’t do it.

    Why is that? Because instances have less control of the All-feed, its often enough full of crap and the post of small instances will almost never appear in the All-feed. So they select Local as default and I, as a user, have to always switch between Local and All, which is annoying. I want to see whats going on on my instance but I also want to discover stuff from all over the threadiverse.

    My solution is to combine the two into one feed, which simply picks posts from the respective feeds based on probabilities.

    • @blue_berryOP
      2•9 months ago

      Default-Local-Feed was also noted as bad user-experience in this article: https://www.androidauthority.com/reddit-alternatives-lemmy-3335429/

      Sure, there are categorization tools like Lemmy map that let you look up instances, but the Matrix-like grid will certainly not make things any easier for the average user. Even after logging into Lemmyworld, it took me a while to figure out that the local tab restricts all conversations to discussions on the Lemmyworld server. Switching the tab to all and catching up on discussions happening in the broader multiverse of Reddit alternatives is also possible. Still, there’s no visual identifier that guides you toward it.