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).

  • whathis@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    1 year ago

    Yeah 90% is just the memes community because its so big, memes are a big part why i joined reddit and now lemmy, but it’s just to much, i want variety at my feed!

    Especially with the retro memes thing going on, I found it funny like the first 10 post, but it’s getting on my nerves already. I wonder what people that came here just now have to think

    • Mythril@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 year ago

      I look forward to when “multireddits” are implemented in Lemmy, I used that feature all the time on Reddit.

      Although it’d still be an issue that the smaller communities are simply lacking in activity in general, I guess.

      I do like talking to myself IRL too, but there’s a limit to even that lol

      • lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        I didn’t use that on Reddit but it seems like it would be more useful here since basically the same community can pop up multiple times on different instances.

      • whathis@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        sadly i don’t think it’s coming soon, i looked at github, there you can open a “issue” (feature ideas, bugs). One of the rules is no multiple issues, so searched if someone requested it and there is one about mutireddits thats chilling there since 2020 and another from 2021

        • dm21@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          We could vote/comment on the existing issue to potentially get it on a priority list

    • omgarm@feddit.nl
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      I have kinda solved this accidentally. I have accounts on multiple instances. One them has no filters and the other one has all meme communities blocked and nsfw turned off. Now if I load [email protected] I see everything, but [email protected] is a nicely trimmed feed.

      This works well if you use Liftoff on android at least.