I only see a handful of communities posts, but miss a lot from smaller communities that aren’t as active but do get daily posts. Reddit blended in smaller communities really well and it’s something I’m struggling with here.
Have you tried playing with different sort types?
“Hot” is the best sort type imo
I actually like sorting by 'New" on fedi - it promotes engagement in new content and it’s generally decent content here as opposed to what you see in “new” on reddit…
I’m sorry for showing up so much there
I guess I should add that I’ve done hot, top for the day, 12 hr, new, active, etc. I have a handful of communities I’ve never seen on my feed. I have to go to them manually.
That’s because there is no sorting algo based on… well anything. Tracking your interests and how much time you’ve spent on a comm as well.
If you choose popular/active, it gives you the most active posts, if you choose new, you get the newest ones. It doesn’t prioritize in any way. The idea is NOT to track what users do.
Though I miss comm/sub tracking as well, it gave good suggestions and kept the feed filled with interesting posts.
It could probably be implemented client wise (in app), but this thing barely works as it is now (so do the apps), so that will take time.
You don’t need user tracking to try to show smaller communities in between larger ones, you just need some sorting method that incorporates that. Hot is already scored with some algorithm, that algorithm could take into account size as well, or just a new sort with that.
I’ve been feeling the same pain, of small, less active communities just not showing up in the feed. While in principle I am very much against “the algorithm”, this will lead to a feedback loop where small communities remain small because they will be much harder to find and revisit, even more so as large ones grown even larger.
We need a kind of sort that is able to get posts of smaller/less active communities interspersed with the rest. This does not/should not be a user profiling algorithm, etc. Just a blind “show the latest post from every community unless it is over x days old, and only then show the second newest,etc” or similar would help.
As things stand now, I’ve considered unsubscribing from some communities so that they do not overwhelm the feed, but it feels like a bad solution.
I know specifically for kbin that the topic of what shows up in what section is a point of discussion with the other devs. Getting these things to work “right” is going to be a challenge.
I like the idea of more “metrics” being used to help “weight” the search results. E.g. if you’re viewed heaps of content from “magazine A”, then content should be surfaced more from that magazine.
I think search / these collections will take a while to get into a really polished state (and it’ll change as the site grows)
