PumpkinDrama
@PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com
- Comment on How should Lemmy sort posts so small communities can compete? 1 week ago:
I’m fine just using the hot sort or scaled sort in my subscribed communities. I don’t participate much since I mainly post in niche communities, and Lemmy tends to smother those, so I have to keep using Reddit.
- Comment on How should Lemmy sort posts so small communities can compete? 1 week ago:
I think it is, and niche has lost to shitposting. Also, don’t tell me what to do.
- Comment on How should Lemmy sort posts so small communities can compete? 1 week ago:
Nah it only rewards communities with few members, that means bot communities with lot of posts and almost no active users are always going to be top. That’s not the outliers sorting that I want.
- Comment on How should Lemmy sort posts so small communities can compete? 1 week ago:
- Compute raw post score (upvotes minus downvotes).
- Normalize score by community size (e.g., divide by square root of monthly active users).
- Calculate z-score relative to community mean and standard deviation.
- Apply time decay to prioritize recent posts.
- Sort posts by adjusted z-score.
- Outcome: Posts that significantly outperform their community norm appear prominently, giving small and large communities equal visibility potential.
- Enhancements: Minimum engagement thresholds, Bayesian shrinkage for small communities.
- Submitted 1 week ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 44 comments
- Submitted 1 week ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on Looking for bot-friendly Lemmy instances/communities for RSS reposting 2 weeks ago:
Saying that without showing any proof seems slanderous.
- Comment on Looking for bot-friendly Lemmy instances/communities for RSS reposting 2 weeks ago:
So should I ask the admin first or it’s fine if I just make my own community there and run the bot to post my RSS feed?
- Comment on Looking for bot-friendly Lemmy instances/communities for RSS reposting 2 weeks ago:
There is also ibbit.at !meta@ibbit.at but with that one, I guess you will have to ask for separate communities per feed and the admin does care about the type of content it would be pulling
This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for, and I see the sources I wanted are already there, so there’s no need to post my own.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on What are your must-block tags on social media? 3 weeks ago:
Many clients allow blocking keywords. I don’t think tags are coming anytime soon.
- Comment on What are your must-block tags on social media? 4 weeks ago:
Funny
- Comment on What are your must-block tags on social media? 4 weeks ago:
Cats
- Comment on What are your must-block tags on social media? 4 weeks ago:
Memes
- Comment on What are your must-block tags on social media? 4 weeks ago:
US news
- Comment on What are your must-block tags on social media? 4 weeks ago:
Billionaire
- Comment on What are your must-block tags on social media? 4 weeks ago:
Elon Musk
- Comment on What are your must-block tags on social media? 4 weeks ago:
Donald Trump
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 33 comments
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 4 weeks ago:
I think upvotes are stupid in the first place since Lemmy doesn’t personalize the feed based on the upvotes like many other social media. You would achieve pretty much the same results scoring posts based on views and comments.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 2 months ago:
Lemmy’s privacy is a joke compared to other social media since all your posts are permanently public under your profile with no option to restrict visibility, meaning not only can anyone see your outdated cringe-worthy posts anytime, but any tech company could probably de-anonymize your profile just by looking at the topics you post in.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 2 months ago:
Yeah because first of all, content had to be spread out across 562826 different communities for no reason other than that reddit had lots of communities, after growing for many many years. It started with just a few.
Then 99% of those were created on Lemmy.world, and every new user was directed to sign up at Lemmy.world.
I guess a lot of people here are younger than me and didn’t experience forums, but we had like 30 forum channels. That was enough to talk about anything at all. And I believe it’s the same here, it would have been enough. And then all channels would have easy to find content.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 2 months ago:
Over the past few days, I’ve witnessed a remarkable surge in the number of communities on browse.feddit.de. What started with 2k communities quickly grew to 4k, and now it has reached an astonishing 8k. While this exponential growth signifies a thriving platform, it also brings forth challenges such as increased fragmentation and the emergence of echo chambers. To tackle these issues, I propose the implementation of a Cross-Instance Automatic Multireddit feature within Lemmy. This feature aims to consolidate posts from communities with similar topics across all federated instances into a centralized location. By doing so, we can mitigate community fragmentation, counter the formation of echo chambers, and ultimately foster stronger community engagement. I welcome any insights or recommendations regarding the optimal implementation of this feature to ensure its effectiveness and success.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 2 months ago:
Allowing 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.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 2 months ago:
The issue with Lemmy’s “all feed” is that the largest or most popular instances tend to dominate what appears there, which undercuts the ability of users on niche or smaller instances to discover content truly relevant to their specific interests. This make different instances feel less distinct and reduces the value of joining a niche instance.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 2 months ago:
The decentralized nature of Lemmy, while appealing in theory, creates significant frustration in practice due to widespread instance blocking. Finding an ideal instance becomes a daunting task, as users must navigate a complex web of inter-instance politics and restrictions. The only reliable solutions seem to be either hosting a personal instance—a technical hurdle for many—or simply hoping that your chosen instance’s admins align with your preferences and don’t block communities you enjoy. This politicking ultimately undermines the platform’s potential.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 2 months ago:
There were several issues on GitHub regarding proposals on how to solve the low visibility of small instances. However, after the Scaled Sort was implemented, all those issues were closed, yet the problem persists. I continue to use Reddit the same as before because I primarily used it for niche communities, which are lacking here. The few times I’ve posted to a niche community here, I’ve either received no answers or been subject to drive-by downvotes, likely from users not even subscribed to the community. As a result, I now only post on Lemmy when the post is directed to a large community, and I use Reddit for the rest.