this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2023
123 points (95.6% liked)

Fediverse

28216 readers
220 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

What I mean is someone sets up a new community, blasts it with a bunch of content to get things started, or sets up a new community bot that makes 20 posts and every other post in my feed is that community. Usually with 1 or 2 votes each and no comments. No matter what way I sort I see this.

I have zero issues with people getting things going within their space, and it’s not a knock against new communities that don’t want to be empty when people stumble across them.

It’s a complaint about the algorithm flooding my feed with so much content from one place that I’ve unfortunately blocked communities over this that I otherwise would have continued to run across and maybe engaged with in the future.

I’m not sure if your first X results should all be unique communities or putting some sort of engagement threshold in place before they show up in the top X posts or something. I don’t really have a perfect answer but to me this is a flaw in the system.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s a complaint about the algorithm flooding my feed with so much content from one place that I’ve unfortunately blocked communities over this that I otherwise would have continued to run across and maybe engaged with in the future.

A neat feature could be the ability to snooze communities. I feel like that could help a bit with what might be considered spam (or generally temporary situations you can't be bothered with).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Love that idea actually

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That gives me an idea for my scheduler (see [email protected]) - block a community for a specific amount of time.