I’ve noticed that the “All” feed on Lemmy is pretty much the same across all instances, showing posts from every instance regardless of the specific focus or community vibe of the instance you’re on. This seems like a missed opportunity to make the experience more tailored and engaging for each instance’s unique audience.
For example, if there were an instance dedicated to literature lovers, wouldn’t it make sense for the “All” feed on that instance to prioritize content that’s more relevant to people who enjoy books, poetry, and writing? Instead of being a global feed that shows everything from memes to tech news, it could reflect the interests and values of the instance’s community.
I feel like making the “All” feed more tailored to each instance would not only improve user experience but also strengthen the sense of community within each instance. What do you think? Would love to hear everyone’s thoughts!
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The problem I see with this idea is that I have no idea who most people are on “my” instance or what sort of content they’re interested in. Even for a topic based instance like https://startrek.website/, outside of Star Trek, what are the chances that the interests of the members align?
The Lemmy developers were working on making user defined custom feeds. If that ever get implemented, I’d certainly give many ideas a try. But the Lemmy devs don’t have any new feed options on their priority list and I doubt they will anytime soon.
The main dev (only dev?) of piefed seems much more likely to implement new ideas. For example, I had mentioned that only botes from a community’s subscribers should be counted on posts to said community by default with the owner of the community given an option to count all votes. It was implemented within days.
All is meant to be everything, local exists for what you are talking about.
Seems like an opportunity to lose users. The whole instance thing is already kinda confusing for new people (source: just joined yesterday), but making every instance only connect to a select few instances would mean having to make an account on multiple different instances if you wanted to see a disparate selection of content. As much as I enjoy debating politics and religion I wouldn’t join a server that only showed those communities because I also like videos of huskies being sassy, battletech memes, etc.
Because “All” is everything, from every instance? You can already do what you want with “Local.”
Its only everything from other instances and communities that the current instance subscribes to. It doesn’t subscribe to the full pipe of everything.
What’s likely happening is people in aggregate generally subscribe to the most popular communities and those communities have the most upvoted posts.
Technically true, but since this tool got widely adopted it does mean pretty much a full pipe of everything: https://lemmy-federate.com/instances
“All” is all content on the fediverse, across all instances with which your home instance is federated. It will be similar for all instances, because most are federated with the big instances and those tend to have more posts and interaction.
If you only want to see the feed of communities on your local instance, you can just browse your “Local” feed.
I’m not referring to the amount of content but how it is curated. If it showed the content sorted by votes from the local instance instead of an aggregate of all instances the content would differ form instance to instance.
But then you’d only be seeing your instance…?
Which is already a thing, browsing by local…?
They are on reddthat.com. “Local” would show them posts from reddthat.com communities; it would not show them posts from lemmy.world communities.
Suppose a post on a lemmy.world community is downvoted by the fediverse in general. However, that same post is highly popular among reddthat.com users, for whatever reason.
This user would like that post to appear high in reddthat.com/all, even though it would not appear high on lemmy.world/all.
The idea is kinda interesting. “all” is not the right category for it, but the idea of instance-peer curation has merit.
All means all, it’s not meant to be curated.
That said, it sounds like you are suggesting more of another sorting algorithm. Could be a neat idea.
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I don’t think changing the default behaviour of the All feed is wise, but adding a sorting option like Hot(Local) or something to the All feed to see what is trending in terms of votes from your local instance could be interesting for medium sized instances. But for any small or tiny instance this would be essentially worthless so it would have to be optional.
No need to add it. It exists. Just switch the view from “All” to “Local” and sort by “Hot”.
No, that would show posts made on your local instance sorted by Hot. Not global posts but sorted by what’s voted Hot by your instance’s users.
Isn’t that what he wants?
No, they clarified that they want the All feed from across the fediverse to be able to be sorted/curated according to the local instances preferences
That’s what local is! Your instace’s local feed. I feel like we’re agreeing with each other, but there’s some confusion.
No, your local feed only shows posts from communities hosted on your instance.
The all feed shows posts from communities hosted anywhere in the Threadiverse. The OP wants this, content from anywhere, but sorted/tailored by interactions your local users made.
The all feed is all federated instances. If you want a different one you would have to find one federated to different instances. And if it was tailored, it wouldn’t be “all” now would it.
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browse /all/new
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block every instance/comm/poster I don’t wanna see
It’s that simple 🤷♂️ if I see something new I don’t like, boom, list get bigger.
That works if you never ever want to change your mind about not seeing stuff. Otherwise it sounds like a nightmare
Huh? I just go to my block list if I really feel like suddenly seeing posts in foreign languages or about subject matter I’ve never had an interest in.
My subscribed feed isn’t that active, if I want to see new posts every few hours I might as well just stick to all/new tbh
Oh I thought that was assumed.
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There should be another feed, besides subscribed, local and all, that shows the channels that are relevant to the instance.
This idea relates to custom collections: https://lemmy.world/post/26654286
How do you define “relevant to the instance”?
Can only speak for myself, but anything the instance admin deems related. Or voted / suggested by their members.
Posted, commented, or voted on by members of your instance, without counting what the rest of the fediverse is doing with it.
How have you been here for a year and don’t know you can sort your feed?
I agree, the all feed is commonly misunderstood to mean all of the Lemmyverse, but this is both a technical impossibility and also a false notion.
What the all feed actually means is all communities subscribed to by a member of your instance.
Especially on thematic, not too big, instances this can be quite interesting and definitely more useful that a bland feed of everything mixed together.
Obviously the bigger the instance, the more the all feed will tend to conform to a bland mix, and somewhat controversially a lot of instances are registered with a bot service that actively auto-subscribes each to other communities making the effect much worse.
You are local for the Local feed. Example for literature.cafe: https://literature.cafe/
There is indeed some plan to tweak the All feed, but it’s usually quite light: https://lemmy.zip/post/33065677
