Comment on Fediverse Frustration: The Homogeneous World of Lemmy Feeds
Ulrich@feddit.org 6 days agothere’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.
misk@sopuli.xyz 6 days 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.
Ulrich@feddit.org 6 days ago
That’s what communities are for. Like…I don’t understand.
misk@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Community has no control over who uses it except for federation policy. Random people browse communities through „All” which leads to random downvotes, ignoring community rules and so on. I believe that idea that makes Activity Pub so nice is that you can use various apps and platforms as distinct ways of browsing and communicating with people want to do it differently.
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 days ago
If you don’t want everyone to be allowed to participate, then you’re simply using the wrong platform. Lemmy also supports private instances.