Sorting by Scaled, which by design puts emphasis on posts from smaller/less active communities, helps s lot.
I know it’s been said already and it’s not a perfect solution but for now it’s an under appreciated first step.
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PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com 3 weeks agoAllowing a user-configurable option to sort posts based solely on the current instance would address this by making the content feed more localized and personalized, helping each instance maintain its unique character and fostering community discovery without being overshadowed by larger instances.
can@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
lerba@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
In my opinion scaled is pretty unusable as it just “balances” out the feed with obscure hentai and conspiracy posts with zero comments
Steve@communick.news 3 weeks ago
That’s exactly what the Local feed is for.
If you don’t want All, don’t use All Because All will give you All, not Local. If you want Local use Local.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For me, the issue is the lack of an ability to view the local of a different instance.
I’m on Lemmy.World. You’re on Communick.News.
If I want to view the local on Communick.News, I can’t. I have to create an account there. And if I want to view the local on Lemmy.World I need to log out of your instance, and log in over here.
Now here’s the bigger issue. Lets say I can click a button, and now a home instance, and all its communities could be saved to a special drop down tab that replaces the local. Your instance is always the default, but the rest are alphabetically listed.
So now that solves that, but we run into the next issue.
What makes Communick.News different from Lemmy.World?
See, if I had a Lemmy.Nintendo instance, it could have 50 different communities of different Nintendo stuff.
Then you could have Lemmy.Linux and have all the linux communities.
And sure, it’s decentralized so maybe Linux.paradise also exists and has some of the same communities.
The idea isn’t to centralize the instances. The idea is to theme them.
OpenStars@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Reddit did this with multi-reddits. PieFed does this with categories of communities, Topic areas that are user customizable and shareable. Lemmy does not do this readily, although Blaze managed it... by making 50 different accounts, one per instance.
Steve@communick.news 3 weeks ago
You mean choose a local view of a different server? That would require every instance to duplicate everything on every other instance. Not possible.
It’s a paid instance. I pay a subscription fee to ensure to won’t die do to lack of resources.
What benefit would themed instances have. You can’t follow an instance…
Oh! That’s what your trying to do! You want to be able to see some logical grouping of related communities, and follow that! Now I get it.
Yah. That’s not the way to do that. The “MultiReddit” concept is what you want for that. A shareable list of related communities. That’ll work regardless of what instance they are hosted on.
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
you don’t actually, you can view them anonymously, although you’ll have to copy paste the post links to your own instance’s search bar in order to vote/comment