I would really like the ability to create my own algorithm. For example, I follow communities for my local sportsball team and memes. Memes, I really just want to see what’s “hot” for the last day but my sportsball I want to see everything posted for the last week.
And the real dream would be to tweak this algorithm across fediverse services.
Like a multireddit-like ability? I know that would be useful and has been highly requested. I personally would love that function.
That would be really cool too but I was thinking more like a “See first” “See top only” sort of option between different communities.
Would that not be just sorting by either local (assuming your instance has content you like) or sorting by subscribed communities only?
No, let’s say you’re subscribed to 2 communities. One is very active and the other one is not too much. In that case the popular one would always dominate the feed. But there could be an option to mark a community as “important” so you see more of it.
Exactly this. My specific issue is memes vs my city. My city gets’ about a post a day where memes get’s like 20-30. I really care about the 1 post per day with my city and I care enough about memes to subscribe but not enough to see all 20.
Yeah I am subbed to some of the meme communities and I find them entertaining…but the problem is they are significantly more active than other communities. When I browse my subbed feed I only see memes and almost nothing else. I don’t want to unsub because I enjoy the memes, but I also want a more balanced feed.
Reddit seemed to fare better at parsing this sort of disparity.
What I’d like is a multi-Reddit to aggregate identical named communities (with manual additions/deletions…like a regular multi) across instances.
To differentiate from people who are talking about multireddits, because what I think you’re really after is an open content algorithm. The answer is not yet but I think it’s only a matter of time. This is the real killer feature of the fediverse that hasn’t been talked about yet.
It would be good, but I’m not sure if the expected Multireddit-style behaviour will ever appear on the threadiverse - at least not in the way I use them (I don’t subscribe to any sub in a multireddit) - for the same reason that Lists are limited in value on Mastodon: there appears to be a “safety and privacy” policy in place that prevents you from adding accounts to a List that you’re not subscribed to.
The only reason I use them is to remove their noise from my feed/timeline. Looking at you, Cory Doctorow… 👀
Maybe it will change, or maybe it will be different here (threadiverse) compared to Mastodon. I guess we’ll see.
You may have meant to reply to a different comment. I am specifically not talking about multireddits.
Oops, I think you’re right.
Personally I’m just sorting by Subscribed, Top/Hour to exclude the popular local content that’s not of interest to me. For instance no sportsball or gaming, nothing against but I don’t care and I need more room for cats, otters, and beby elephants.
Not yet but the fediverse is an open protocol and standard. Just like email, http, and html have evolved over the years, so can and will the fediverse. If it’s technically possible it can happen.
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Not yet. Until we get multireddits or something equivalent I just use a folders of bookmarks to specific communities I care about, and then open them all at the same time ¯\(ツ)/¯
Why not do hot with just your subscription? Or better yet go to that community page and then you only get content about sports.
My thought (but may be wrong) is to use All and block those I don’t want. This (I assume) would allow me to see any new areas. It’s tons more work but I think ultimately it will expand my areas of interest.
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