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).
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.
Personally, I’m not so interested in a single algorithm to cover all bases and give me something that I can doom scroll forever.
I’m more interested in having the right tools to flexibly explore and consume content as I want, and happy if that means moving through various settings and multiple feeds in a session, so long as it’s user friendly enough to do so.
At the moment, I think two features will dramatically improve one’s ability to manage the feed. First is this “best” sort being implemented. Second is multi-communities (or multi-subreddits). Either are pretty good on their own. But in combination, they provide quite a lot and I’m honestly not sure what else I’d want.