This would push users toward local posts (especially on smaller instances) while still supporting a better distribution of user engagement over the threadiverse. And if you don’t trust that it was implemented correctly – you can simply check it by counting the amounts of posts against your chosen probabilities.

Edit: changed feed name to mixed-feed

  • Ljdawson (Sync dev)English
    17•2 years ago

    I’d prefer a more generalised multi community approach.

    Being able to merge various android communities server side would be great.

    • @blue_berry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      Ok but that’s about the problem of redundancy in the threadiverse. That’s a different discussion.

  • LiškaEnglish
    6•2 years ago

    Wonderful idea - full support on my part 👍🏻

    … The Fediverse can only acquire steady growth if engagement in some of the bigger communities picks up and new users are noticing that there is constantly something going on around here - I’m sceptic that with the natural spread of thematically related smaller communities over the Fediverse, we can make that happen without pushing some incentives for community centralization…

    • @blue_berry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      No it doesn’t. It addresses a different problem, namely: posts from small instances should be somehow boosted in my feed.

      The problem I try to address is regarding posts from my local instance vs. posts from all federated instances. I would like to have a sorting that gives up a good mix here and that would also be in line with admin’s motivations to keep their instances alive. As described here: https://lemmy.world/post/5110168 their chose to promote the All/Explore or the Local feed can be modeled with problem from game theory and can result in admins to choosing to promote only the local feed if they find that the All-feed gives their posts a disadvantage and over long, drains away their user engagement. Scaled sort will not be able to fix that.

      (Actually should have written that in the description)

      • @emhl@feddit.deEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        I just look at the local feed and then at the all feed. I don’t really see any issue with what’s the default

        • @blue_berry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1•2 years ago

          I often do that but often enough I just stay on local out of convenience. It would be great to have just one feed for that where you can get both

  • @surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4•2 years ago

    I’m going to say something completely taboo.

    I want an algorithm. I want something to watch what I’m doing and serve me content that I’ll enjoy.

    • SpziEnglish
      4•2 years ago

      Thanks for your effort, especially the example screenshot! Your presentation with colors showcases the idea very well!

      It’s not clear where the numeric preferences (e.g. 10/40/50) should be defined. Is it in user settings? Or should it be right next to the Subscribed/Explore/Local/All toggle? And is it a digit input field, or a graphical control like sliders? Anyways, details.

      I’d also like the option to always show new posts or posts with new comments from favorited communities. This could help small communities and their subscribers to get things going.

      Or well, we can implement both ideas with the same mechanic: Allow me to override the likelihood with which a post from a specific community shows up in my feed. This way, I can include both big and active communities in which I’m only mildly interested, and small and rarely active communities in which I’m very interested in the same feed.

      • @blue_berry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        It’s not clear where the numeric preferences (e.g. 10/40/50) should be defined. Is it in user settings? Or should it be right next to the Subscribed/Explore/Local/All toggle? And is it a digit input field, or a graphical control like sliders? Anyways, details.

        I don’t know but yeah I think that would be details.

        I’d also like the option to always show new posts or posts with new comments from favorited communities. This could help small communities and their subscribers to get things going.

        But that’s what subscribed is for, right?

        Or well, we can implement both ideas with the same mechanic: Allow me to override the likelihood with which a post from a specific community shows up in my feed. This way, I can include both big and active communities in which I’m only mildly interested, and small and rarely active communities in which I’m very interested in the same feed.

        This could also be addressed by giving smaller communities slightly more weight in general. To prevent their posts not appearing because bigger more active communities. But I think that’s a different problem. Also, it was also trying to be addressed here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3907

  • 👁️👄👁️English
    2•2 years ago

    I like the idea, but it should also include another feed specifically with subscribed smaller communities, since they’d still get buried under this system.

    Honestly don’t bother with the customization by the user. That seems to be the solution to when anyone might object to something, but it just creates more confusion to the average user. Maybe keep it as a setting in the instance config. Less is more.