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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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[-] fgil@lemmy.fgilcc.eu 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There’s currently a PR for a different sort that would kinda of address this issue.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3378

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Wow. I'm kinda impressed that that's already in the works.

I'm rather pleased with how many developers have gotten involved with the project. Looks like the work might not be finished yet on this feature, but it's definitely on its way!

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

After the stability issues with Lemmy were addressed (and they have been, for the most part...) the next thing that needed a revamp was content aggregation. It's too stale. It's no wonder they're pilling on to address it.

IIRC it took quite a while for Reddit to find an algorithm that worked, and it constantly needs tweaking. It will here, as well.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

This seems ideal. I hope it makes it in soon.

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