My Observation: Once a post ages, it will be thrown onto into post-purgatory, a heap of dead and forgotten posts, forever, while the discussion keeps going on the 10 newest posts max.
“Solutions” I found to this:
- look up admins of communities. What do they post? What other communities do they moderate?
- be patient with discovering new communities.
Integrating randomness might help, so old posts are not buried completely … add a random page similar to wikipedias special:random article. This might also help to get a feeling for the real average content in a community.
It does not, people use New comments. We just interacted in a post that was 9 days old
I would say 9 days is quite young. The oldest post on lemmy is 6 years old.
I use the web-interface, which by default shows you hot posts on the frontpage, you need to do some clicking to find newest comments/oldest comments but there is also no inbetween.
You can configure your default sort in your account settings. I have mine on New Comments.
It’s very good right now; I appreciate that it’s based on recommendations from other users rather than an algo, keeps the feed clean.
Also, does anyone use https://quiblr.com/ ?
I know everyone in the fediverse hates the idea of recommendation algorithms because they’re easily abused and gamed on the other platforms, but I still think either apps or dedicated recommendation services that can be tweaked/inspected by the users could be a welcome addition.
As it is now, I basically have my app set to browse all and I block communities/instances I’m not interested in, but if it grows larger I don’t think that would continue working.
Have you tried https://quiblr.com/?
100%, my main issue with all the “new” social medias coming out is that they lack a recommendation algorithm which basically blocks growth for any small communities (/creators depending on platform) and does not allow me to have an interesting feed.
On Xitter I always browsed the For You page and on the daily found new creators that posted interesting stuff that I wouldn’t have seen otherwise. Now I just browse like you said on All and blocking communities I don’t want there, but its already obvious to me there’s wayyyy too much news and nothing else there. All I see is Trump Trump Tesla Trump and a bit of memes inbetween.
Have you tried adding a keyword filter using Ublock? !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca has a pinned post with a guide on how to do it
Its not that I don’t want that content at all, its that my entire feed is filled with it that is the issue.
I’m all for simple privacy friendly recommendation algorithms. I even thought of ways a privacy friendly recommendation algorithm for PeerTube could be made. Though I don’t need one in Lemmy. My subscribed feed is good enough imo
It could be better, could be worse. I’ve looked for stuff, not found it then stumbled upon it the next week. Right now it’s small so it’s not a problem
