What I mean is someone sets up a new community, blasts it with a bunch of content to get things started, or sets up a new community bot that makes 20 posts and every other post in my feed is that community. Usually with 1 or 2 votes each and no comments. No matter what way I sort I see this.

I have zero issues with people getting things going within their space, and it’s not a knock against new communities that don’t want to be empty when people stumble across them.

It’s a complaint about the algorithm flooding my feed with so much content from one place that I’ve unfortunately blocked communities over this that I otherwise would have continued to run across and maybe engaged with in the future.

I’m not sure if your first X results should all be unique communities or putting some sort of engagement threshold in place before they show up in the top X posts or something. I don’t really have a perfect answer but to me this is a flaw in the system.

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[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s my understanding that there is no algorithm. View only your subscriptions, only communities on your local instance, or the entire fediverse. Sort them however you want. Mix it up to find what makes you happy.

All that said, I personally would like to avoid seeing any account less than, say a week old. Maybe a filter coded into the interface would work.

[–] SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn’t “hot” “new” etc an algorithm? I don’t think there is an algorithm-less way to sort the feed. Even a date sort is an algorithm.

[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 0 points 1 year ago

Technically fair point. I stand corrected.

I understood OP to be pining for an obscured algorithm that surfaces “Interesting” content. I have zero desire for any of that nonsense here. It’s part of the reason that I’m adamantly opposed to federation with Facebook (when they finally figure out how to do it).

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is an algorithm, its just a non-personalized one.

[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh? How so?

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

High level overview vs a link to the code 😉 https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html

[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

Technically fair point. I stand corrected. I understood OP to want an obscure algo to surface “interesting” content with no need for user interaction. I’m adamantly opposed to injecting that nonsense here.

Thanks for this link. I keep getting the sort orders confused despite having it explained well multiple times.