I wish Lemmy had the Mastodon functionality to create your own lists of communities. I subscribe to a ton of communities and I have a couple of them which are very low volume but I’m very interested in seeing each and every post there. Right now I have to remember them and go to them specifically once every couple of days to check if there are new posts there. This is because the high volume communities push all the other things down so people don’t see them and don’t vote on them.
In Mastodon I have a #Homies list which is always visible and there I see the posts of people I personally know and want to see each post of them. It’s amazing and easy to implement.
Mastodon is federated though, couldn’t you just create those lists of Lemmy communities and view them in your preferred method on Mastodon?
Not trying to sound like a smartass but it seems like a possible solution to your problem.
The existence of a way to get around the problem doesn’t mean the problem is solved. If a lot of people want to do this, then it should be easier to do and obvious how to do it
Big agree. I hate that I have to block news communities to get them out of my feed. I never subscribed to them.
Yeah, as a workaround perhaps, I will try to check. But the UI is not very good for shawing Lemmy posts on Mastodon.
I actually do this with a few crafting communities that rarely get new posts, makes it easy to see when something pops up in one of them.
It’s not ideal obviously and I do hope we get these sorts of features eventually, but in the meantime it’s a decent workaround for a very specific situation.
It’s a functional workaround, but Lemmy’s version of federation where every single post and comment gets boosted by the community “account” makes things difficult to handle.
Why not sort your subscribed communities by New?
Wouldn’t that lead to the same problem of low volume communities getting pushed out by high volume communities?
That is exactly what I’m doing but the high volume communities just push out so many posts that it’s impossible for me to read every single one to be sure that I didn’t miss any from the low volume ones.
Which communities are so high volume? I sort by new and don’t have any issues reading every single post from my subscriptions
I’m subscribed to 127 communities. I’d say the high volume are all the Technology and World News communities.
Recent attacks for one.
I do top of the hour
Wouldn’t that lead to the same problem of low volume communities getting pushed out by high volume communities?
high volume comment
I want to be able to browse just the communities I moderate. Communit lists would address this.
Lemmys mod capabilities are pretty poor in general. It’s holding back adoption of lemmy.
Kbin has a moderated filter which is nice
I’d like this too, especially since I moderate far fewer communities than I subscribe to, it would make it easier to keep tabs on the content that’s being posted.
Make sure to check “new” now and then. That will show you all posts chronologically, regardless of how visible they are to the other algorithms.
(It’s how I found your post… )
New is my default, but because I’m in a different time zone than many of those low volume ones I more often than not miss all their posts.
Do you restrict to a certain amount of time?
I’m not sure what you mean.
You can restrict what you view to within an hour, 6 hours, 12 hours, etc.
i would like a random sorting in a given time frame. for example, random 6h.
same as top but wirh posts ordered randomly.
this mitigate your problem but not solve It entirely.
Random sort? How do you do that?
you don’t, i just wish you could
Have you tried blocking? I have found blocking a few communities and users helps keep my feed less annoying. I do agree with you, tho, I wish there was a better way to promote the niche stuff we want to see and not have to wade through a lot of repetitive “front page” stuff constantly.
I could just unsubscribe but then I would not see those at all. But perhaps a bit more feed hygiene would help with this already, I never unsubscribed but perhaps it’s time to to some clean up.
Yes, I try to limit stuff that I block but it’s a helpful tool for things I have zero interest in.
This isn’t a permanent solution but this could be a temporary solution until this gets implemented by the lemmy devs. If you are already using an app and are on Android Summit for Lemmy supports multi-communities.
Ah interesting, I’ll check it out, thanks for the tip!
I hear you, I’ve been struggling with that as well. Right now just experimenting with alt accounts that I can use in place of different feeds, but I recognize that might be inconvenient.
I sort by all/new comments and block the communities I’m not interested in
lemmy.wold eats up most of the feed and eclipses smmaller coms, in a way that i hav to filter it so i could see the niche and curious stuff, which happens to be interesting most of the time.
Sync app curraits your feed so that you only see posts from what you’re subbed to, you just have to switch from “everything” to “subscribed.”
I am always only on subscribed.
