Hey, I’m subscribed to a variety of communities in different instances (my “home” instance is lemmy.world) all of them with varying degrees of activity but some nonetheless, when I enter the “subscribed” feed, all is overwhelmingly populated by one community. I guess its because this community is way bigger than the others and it overshadows the post coming from others. As its understandable i would like this feed to be more of a mix of all the c/ that I follow, so i guess my question is, Is there a new sorting algorithm in the works? Is it a feature its being worked on? Or is this by design and it will stay this way? Also, is this something that an instance can change on its own? I know lemmy is open source and that probably the host could change something like this but maybe it breaks the activitypub protocol something, I don’t know.

  • kevincox@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It can definitely be solved. You can change how you rank posts based on the sub that they are in. So for example instead of sorting simply by upvotes-downvotes you can do something like (upvotes-downvotes)/subscribers or (upvotes-downvotes)/average-community-score. Basically this way you are sorting based on how popular each post is for a given community instead of an absolute score.