Comment on How should Lemmy sort posts so small communities can compete?
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months agoI’ve just tried it out on “All” and basically the entire first page is filled with one user’s posts to !visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Hm
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=Scaled
Yeah, maybe so. I think you may have to do it to “Subscribed” only, and then sometimes cut out one specific community or other that it is over-promoting. I mean, it’s doing what it’s supposed to do, promoting small communities, but I think sometimes it maybe gets carried away.
Maybe the size of the community should be determined based on posts per month instead of the number of active users
MHLoppy@fedia.io 5 months ago
Imo that's as much a problem of the sorting algorithm as it is with a single community blasting out too many posts at once without any consideration for how current frontends are unable to usefully integrate that into people's feeds. A couple of years ago nanoUFO was being a bit (subjectively) overenthusiastic about posting - I counted and !games had 40 posts at once from them and it made the first couple pages of my feed basically unusable for a while.