Does Lemmy have an “algorithm”? Like if I engage with one community a lot, will that show up more in my feed?
Does Lemmy have an “algorithm”? Like if I engage with one community a lot, will that show up more in my feed?
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There are only feeds for Subscribed, Local and All. Things can only show up there is they fall under one of those categories. Then the secondary filter determines the order. New is going to be chronological, Hot is some formula of votes per hour, active is some formula of comments per hour, old is probably reverse chronologically. etc..
It won't ever factor in what you visit and engage with on its own.
Thanks that makes sense. I get why some people are against it, but ranking on your engagement can be super useful imo. Like if I comment on a couple niche communities a lot, I don’t want those to be drowned out by the much larger communities.
So check on those couple niche communities more often. All and Local feeds are not meant to deliver you custom content, Home is a curated list that you create, and if there’s anything you want to see more of, visit it directly as often as you like.
It'd be nice if each one was weighted and we could adjust the weights to see some more than others. By default it would just be as it is now.
Even simpler, I think being able to "favourite" some communities and (optionally?) applying a greater weight to those communities in a user's feeds would solve the problem quite nicely.
I can't really imagine wanting to do the reverse anyway (subscribed to a community but I want to see less of its content)
I can see someone getting tired of a sub and wanting to see less of it but not wanting to unsubscribe
Not really relevant here, but back when we were all on the old site, I was always bothered by the perverted nature of some of the questions on their equivalent of c/asklemmy. I wish I had a way to prevent NSFW specifically from that community from showing up on my feed while also still getting to see dank memes and dark jokes.
Right? I don't want to see the porn nsfw stuff, but stuff like violent games, movie, shows, etc that also get marked nsfw I wanna see.
I thoroughly enjoy being able to design my own feed, and not have some corporation shove stuff down my throat in order to keep my engagement up. The past couple times I've checked facebook (primarily to check events) I've left again almost immediately, because I'm so put off by the way they shove stuff in my face just to find out what I'm interested in. I've even noticed that if I spend more time looking at a post from some source (no clicks/interaction, just reading text on an image) they start funnelling more of that into my feed.
There are people who sort by new posts, or new comments, it's not as common but some people do sort by it so in a way you're helping to spread
Edit: oh, you asked if it would show up more in your feed, not others'
I think active has got something to do with some formula of comments per hour.
I've been using "Subscribed" and "Top Day" for a while. Works well for me. If I used "All" there would be a large number of communities I'd need to block. Easier to just join the ones you want to see.
To add to this, hot seems to be local, top day seems to be lemmy-wide