I wouldn’t like to actually block a community all together here, but yeah, I would like to see less posts of that community. Is there a way to do this, either in Jerboa or the web UI?

  • AlbumEnglish
    26·
    2 years ago

    It seems like you’re confusing general recommendation algorithms like Google News/discover that suggests content you might like based on your perceived interests with a forum/link aggregator that ranks content based on time, upvotes and on your literal subscriptions.

    Reddit didn’t have this feature because that’s not how the system works.

    How do you propose to do a “show less like this” referring to recommended content when Lemmy does not “recommend” anything at all.

    • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago

      It wouldn’t need to be fancy. Could literally be “automatically hide every second post from this community”.

      • 15Redstones@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        25·
        2 years ago

        Or just “count upvotes from posts from this community as half” when sorting posts by Hot. Maybe calculating the score of a post from both the points and the size of the community so that posts from smaller communities are visible too.

        • Geiger0148@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          13·
          2 years ago

          Weighting by community, so my feed isnt completely overrun by cats and I see enough Norwegian death metal crochet posts

            • cyanarchy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              As a reddit transplant (aren’t we all?) I’m going to be avoiding cat subreddits entirely. Not that I don’t like them, it just opens the floodgates for me to subscribe to all of them and I’ll be back to square zero.

            • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              They’re on Github but pretty swamped atm.

              At the moment we are urgently working to solve major issues, such as optimizing slow database queries, ripping out the inefficient websocket API, and fixing a major security vulnerability (big thanks to deadcade). In addition we suddenly have to manage dozens of pull requests. To give us time to work on these priorities, it would be very beneficial if users could refrain from interacting with issue trackers when possible. Before opening an issue, make sure that it hasn’t been reported before. And when writing comments, make sure that they actually contribute to solving the issue at hand. Generally it is better to move discussions to Lemmy if possible.

    • PCChipsM922U@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      72·
      2 years ago

      Maybe like a personal pereference in your profile which you can tweak. Not for every community, but for ones added, yes.