There is currently no engagement-based individual curation on Lemmy. The two most commonly used ranking algorithms (Hot & Top) are based strictly on votes. Top sorts by the total number of votes from within a given time window while Hot considers all votes against a steep time-based curve.
Not coincidentally, this is the same algorithm methodology used by Reddit. Two Reddit users subscribed to the exact same communities will see the exact same Hot/Top feeds, regardless of how much or little they individually engage with specific posts. Lemmy intentionally copied this community-based engagement methodology, presumably because it’s part of the secret sauce that makes Reddit-like platforms special.
That was true at one point, but reddit has had personalized rankings for a while now. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/7hkvjn/what_we_think_about_when_we_think_about_ranking
But your point stands; reddit’s earlier ranking methodology was obviously pretty good since it made the site so popular.
I don’t want to have any sort of curated content. Is not subscribing to anything the best way to achieve that?
Go on the All tab with the setting New to see all posts that can be read by your instance. This still allows you to subscribe to some stuff on the Subscribed tab without having any curation in the All tab.
Subscribing to a community does not curate content. All subscribing does is add it to your list of subscribed communities, so it’s one of the ones that shows up when you look into your Subscribed feed (sometimes called the Home feed). Subscribing to a community will not impact the Local feed or the All feed.
Lemmy does not have “curated content” outside of your subscriptions adding to the Subscribed feed, and your blocks taking away from all feeds.
Perfect, this was what I wanted to ear. Thank you
There will always be some form of algorithm that decides which posts go to the top of your feed, but lemmy gives you lots of options to control how you want it to work, and none of them are curated by anyone specifically. There’ll never be no algorithm though, you’ll always need to pick something
There are only feeds for Subscribed, Local and All. Things can only show up there is they fall under one of those categories. Then the secondary filter determines the order. New is going to be chronological, Hot is some formula of votes per hour, active is some formula of comments per hour, old is probably reverse chronologically. etc…
It won’t ever factor in what you visit and engage with on its own.
Thanks that makes sense. I get why some people are against it, but ranking on your engagement can be super useful imo. Like if I comment on a couple niche communities a lot, I don’t want those to be drowned out by the much larger communities.
No, if you want to see a community more, subscribe to it so it shows up in your subscribe feed. The “Hot” ranking is only based on the age of a post and the score, “Active” is similar but using the time of the last comment instead.
The feeds are “All”, including every post on Lemmy, “Local”, including only posts to your instance’s communities, and “Subscribed” showing subscribed (joined) communities.
I do see some clumping of communities in /all. Sometimes every other post will be from a certain community. I notice it most of its something nsfw.
I do not know what it is that the sorting algorithm decides that I’m into short haired ladies this one day and into furry the other, but somehow it does.
I do see some clumping of communities in /all. Sometimes every other post will be from a certain community
I had to block Star Wars Memes.
I haven’t even seen that show up yet 🤔
I think what you are seeing is a small number of users making a large number of posts to certain communities in a short time. Lemmy isn’t large enough to have an organic flow of content from different people, given that most users are lurkers.
Doesn’t “All” show all posts from communities on your own, and other instances when someone on your instance has joined them? Or is that no longer the case and did I miss that?
Yes, but thats because your instance doesn’t start federating with another instance until someone subscribes to a community from the other instance, your instance just won’t have any posts to display
