dryguy

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That just gives you what's new. I'm looking for what is new and popular. I usually browse by top 6 hours.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm definitely not suggesting that any of the existing feeds need to be done away with. They all have their uses.

 

I've noticed that there are a few communities that tend to dominate when viewing all. Some days it gets to where looking at all isn't very different than just looking at [email protected] or [email protected].

Before someone says "you can just block communities you don't want to see," it's not that I never want to see them, it's that I want to be able to have a view that shows me what is new and popular in a wide variety of communities. I appreciate seeing a few good memes in my feed. The problem is when that's all I see. Changing the sort from active to hot or top x days doesn't have much effect on which communities dominate, so that isn't the solution either.

"You can just subscribe to communities you like". True, but that has the effect of narrowing what I see. I'd like a view that showed me new things I never thought to subscribe to.

Lemmy devs - if you are reading this - it would be nice to have a feed that limited the number of posts showing up from any particular community. It could be a simple cutoff of 2 or 3 posts, or maybe some sort of weighting function to cause additional posts from the same community to appear lower in the sort order for that feed.

I'd love to hear what devs and other users think about this.

Edit: To everyone saying "just sort be new" - yes, that has its uses, but it only solves part of the problem. I'd like a feed that shows me what is new and popular, but from more than just one or two communities.

 

Steve Martin is a surprisingly good banjo player. I absolutely love this particular piece of his.

 

I just found out about https://mlmym.org and I couldn't be happier. You can use it by just appending the url for a lemmy instance like so:

https://mlmym.org/lemmy.world

https://mlmym.org/beehaw.org

https://mlmym.org/sh.itjust.works

etc.

Enjoy!