Comment on Fediverse Frustration: The Homogeneous World of Lemmy Feeds

• misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How does this prevent anyone from participating? This kind of sort would make one engage less with some content and users they don’t want to. You could do it for efficiency, mental health or whatever reason you come up with. Having an option of increasing importance of your local instance in shaping what you see is just one more way of tweaking your experience without affecting others. It’s dangerously close to „the algorithm” but works without being a black box.

  OPs issue is not solved by private instances because it cuts off contact entirely. You might as well set view to Local and ban other instances in your client.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    How does this prevent anyone from participating?

    OPs issue is not solved by private instances because it cuts off contact entirely.

    …I mean that sounds like the entire point of what you’re proposing? I guess I’m still confused but I will agree that BlueSky-style custom feeds would be a super-nice addition to any social platform.

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    • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This is not BlueSky-style, it’s Activity Pub style.

      I can browse a Lemmy community from Mastodon and see it in a very different way. Yes, I could sort by activity but then I’d have to keep a separate Lemmy account for those low traffic communities. In Mastodon I can make a list of groups and see only last two replies per thread effectively. Votes are irrelevant and Mastodon has that covered by not implementing that at all.

      We don’t have any control over how others will view whatever communication or interactions are being sent over AP. That also means it’s free to reinterpret in whatever way one sees fit.

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