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).

    • giant_smeeg@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Aslong as it hides posts that are old from a less active community.

      I don’t need a 14day old post popping up on the front page all the time

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        1 year ago

        From what I’ve read in the changed code, you can select what duration you want to show the best posts for:

        • BestAll
        • BestYear
        • BestNineMonths
        • BestSixMonths
        • BestThreeMonths
        • BestMonth
        • BestWeek
        • BestDay
        • BestTwelveHour
        • BestSixHour
        • BestHour