Fediverse Frustration: The Homogeneous World of Lemmy Feeds
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Isn't that what the local feed is for? All means, well, all.
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I don't know why you would want that.
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Showcase truly instance-specific content
Local feed
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This one million times.
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OP still wants to see all federated content but through a local lens, hence suggestion it could be implemented as a sorting option.
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This is already implemented and coming with Lemmy 0.20.0 afaik. Not precisely with this goal in mind, but more general to give instance admins more customizability over vote federation.
I kinda agree that it might be interesting to lean into the idea to have the all feed further curated by what instance members are interested in. It already is to some extend, but the bigger the instance the more it gets dilluted out right now.
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Strongly disagree. This is just recreating what already exists, using a technology that's actually not great for it. Each website's connections should in some way resemble what that website is tailored to. And we don't need a network of websites that are tailored to "looking exactly like every other website, because we couldn't be arsed to pick a niche".
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Strongly disagree. This is just recreating what already exists, using a technology that's actually not great for it. Each website's connections should in some way resemble what that website is tailored to. And we don't need a network of websites that are tailored to "looking exactly like every other website, because we couldn't be arsed to pick a niche".
And we don’t need a network of websites that are tailored to “looking exactly like every other website, because we couldn’t be arsed to pick a niche”.
That's the whole point of the Fediverse, and Lemmy instances. Mastodon instances look like each other, to an extend.
And even here, https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/ and https://lemmy.world/ default themes look different.
If you want a truly different layout, there is https://fedia.io/m/floatingisfun
But that's a unique case, because Mbin allows community-based themes
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Strongly disagree. This is just recreating what already exists, using a technology that's actually not great for it. Each website's connections should in some way resemble what that website is tailored to. And we don't need a network of websites that are tailored to "looking exactly like every other website, because we couldn't be arsed to pick a niche".
Well, I strongly disagree right back.
Especially smaller instances regularly have reliability or federation issues, so it's vital for me to be able to hop to an alt account and still the same all feed.
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there’s no algorithm
There are several algorithms to choose from. OP is upset because they don't like the default one. They don't seem to understand that they can change it.
What’s suggested here is to have some sort of sort/scaling that would assign higher weight to votes from local instance.
But why?
promotes decentralisation
Decentralization is not the same thing as fragmentation. What you and OP are suggesting is the latter.
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Use All to get started. Check it out now and then for some variety and maybe to find new communities. But absolutely curate your own Subscribed timeline.
