Right now, big communities dominate the feed. I’m wondering what sort algorithm could level the field so niche or hobbyist communities have a fair chance to get seen.

There’s a good related post: Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until Lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account. It puts it well:

“If Lemmy is to truly start having active hobbyist communities instead of being 95% lefty US politics, Shitposts, and some tech stuff, it needs a sort that takes into account the user’s engagement.”

What do you think should be the default sort for a more balanced Lemmy?

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[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

TIL: there are people who don’t sort by “New”

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 4 days ago

That would cause me to miss many interesting threads that were created at a time when I happened not to be looking at Lemmy.

"New comments" it is for me, that causes threads to get bumped to the top as long as other people still find them interesting.

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I almost always sort by bew, then I check once a week using top to see if I missed anything.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 4 days ago

This is the way, and for comments added on posts