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New communities and flooding the feed (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

It’s a complaint about the algorithm flooding my feed

Or rather, the absence of one.

I guess in a way you're showcasing where algorithmic sorting/grouping, when not used just to promote ads and increase profitability, can have a positive impact. Because they could for example be used to temporarily suppress exactly what you mean, and require a community to stay "active" for longer than a brief flare-up to start spreading wider and wider.

That being said, I find the lack of such stuff refreshing. You after all select whether you want to see "All" content, and even the sort mechanism.