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I tend to miss posts in smaller communities, no matter what sorting options I use when I display the "Subscribed" feed on the frontpage.

If I sort by "New", unsurprisingly most new posts are on the popular communities. Same if I select "Hot", "Active", or "Top Hour" etc. Overall it makes sense, small communities don't have new content as often, and threads there are not that "active" as there not many users.

I think the algorithm should somehow ensure a more diverse feed. There also no "multi-reddits" atm, so you can't just create a feed of those smaller communities.

Of course, I could create another account and only subscribe to small communities, but that's inconvenient. Simply checking them manually is what I do atm, but it's also not that convenient. A temporal solution might be using the RSS feeds, but overall it seems something should be done about it on Lemmy's end.

So, anyone else experiencing that or am I missing something? Because if I am not the only one then perhaps this issue should be brought to the attention of the devs (if it wasn't already).

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[-] Anon819450514@lemmy.ca 121 points 1 year ago

You should go see the github for lemmy-ui. There is feature request to add the weight of the community into account so we don't only see the most popular post from the biggest communities. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 65 points 1 year ago

That'd be great. Currently 90% of my feed is /c/memes and while I do find them entertaining, I also miss a ton of posts from smaller communities related to my hobbies that I would engage with more.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's also preventing smaller subs from being discovered and growing.

Seems there's a PR for a "best" sorting option, which sorts by the top post from each sub, and then the second place post from each sub, and so on.

Sounds perfect.

[-] HollowNotion@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I haven't looked at the PR, but if it's really that simple, that doesn't seem like the full solution. I don't particularly want a sub with 10 users popping up on the front page after 3 upvotes just because it got to the top of that sub. Sub weight, as mentioned in the top comment here, should probably be taken in to account.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

That's honestly exactly what I would want.

[-] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 1 points 1 year ago

Then don't subscribe to that 10 person sub?

[-] HollowNotion@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Doesn’t stop them from showing up via All and Local, which is what I want to do without having the completely block these communities. Just my preference.

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