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Is there any downside to being subscribed to dead/inactive communities? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works to c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

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On Reddit, Reddit would randomly pick 50/100 communities from which it fills your home feed. Your other subscriptions do not matter until Reddit decides to refresh the list of subs its pulling from.

In theory, if you're subscribed to a bunch of inactive subreddits, your home feed is potentially being held back by these (since, as opposed to Reddit grabbing posts from 50 active communities, it's only grabbing posts from - say - 30 active communities with the remaining 20 being inactive and taking up the spot of your other active subscriptions).

On Lemmy, is there any downside to retaining subscriptions to inactive communities?

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

On Reddit, Reddit would randomly pick 50/100 communities from which it fills your home feed

Since when? Reddit must have gotten worse than I thought in the past couple of years...

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's a very old feature

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Huh. I don't think I ever saw posts in my subscribed feed I hadn't subscribed to...

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was talking about your subscribed subs, to clarify

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's the difference between "subscribed feed" and "subscribed subs"?

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

One and the same - I was saying that I wasn't suggesting what you thought I was suggesting, I was definitely talking about subscriptions. To clarify my question,

reddit.com home page generates posts from your subscriptions (the subreddits you've subscribed to).

It randomly selects 50 (or 100 if you pay) of your subscriptions and then populates the feed.

Hence the problem: if you subscribe to inactive subreddits, some of the 50 reddit selects are effectively duds; they're not doing anything and are taking up spots that other active subreddits could have. Your home feed is therefore de-facto hindered if you subscribe to inactive subreddits.

I was wondering if this is also the case on Lemmy.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

It randomly selects 50 (or 100 if you pay) of your subscriptions and then populates the feed

I was not aware that Reddit had a limit on the number of subs which appear in one's subscribed feed. I'm not aware of any such limit on Lemmy, and would be surprised if it were as low as 50 (if a limit exists).