Comment on Fediverse Frustration: The Homogeneous World of Lemmy Feeds

remon@ani.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Kichae@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Strongly disagree. This is just recreating what already exists, using a technology that’s actually not great for it. Each website’s connections should in some way resemble what that website is tailored to. And we don’t need a network of websites that are tailored to “looking exactly like every other website, because we couldn’t be arsed to pick a niche”.

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well, I strongly disagree right back.

    Especially smaller instances regularly have reliability or federation issues, so it’s vital for me to be able to hop to an alt account and still the same all feed.

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  • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And we don’t need a network of websites that are tailored to “looking exactly like every other website, because we couldn’t be arsed to pick a niche”.

    That’s the whole point of the Fediverse, and Lemmy instances. Mastodon instances look like each other, to an extend.

    And even here, lemmy.dbzer0.com and lemmy.world default themes look different.

    If you want a truly different layout, there is fedia.io/m/floatingisfun

    But that’s a unique case, because Mbin allows community-based themes

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• lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Exactly! That’s why it’s called “All” and not, say, “Some” or “Maybe”.

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• misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s because there’s no algorithm but that’s not what OP is after I think. We already have scaled sort which adjusts score based on community size. What’s suggested here is to have some sort of sort/scaling that would assign higher weight to votes from local instance. This is a great idea that promotes decentralisation and I wouldn’t discard it like that.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    there’s no algorithm

    There are several algorithms to choose from. OP is upset because they don’t like the default one. They don’t seem to understand that they can change it.

    What’s suggested here is to have some sort of sort/scaling that would assign higher weight to votes from local instance.

    But why?

    promotes decentralisation

    Decentralization is not the same thing as fragmentation. What you and OP are suggesting is the latter.

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    • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They can change sorting and view but they will not get anywhere near their stated purpose. OP wants instances to gather people that share similar interests or beliefs so that his/her browsing experience is shaped by this choice in a natural manner.

      As an very rough example, this could mean that in discussion-centric instances text posts would be ranked higher because users in those instances tend to upvote them more often. This would also mean that less interesting stuff is not filtered but lower in the ranking. Those seeking such experience (it does sound attractive to me) would have higher incentive to join smaller and more focused instances. Maybe they wouldn’t be so small then or they’d have to vet new users and it’d be a terrible idea. Still worth considering imo.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        OP wants instances to gather people that share similar interests or beliefs so that his/her browsing experience is shaped by this choice in a natural manner.

        That’s what communities are for. Like…I don’t understand.

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ok, but then this should be a seperate feed from “all”.

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    • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      OP still wants to see all federated content but through a local lens, hence suggestion it could be implemented as a sorting option.

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