Kind of answers the suggestion I had a while ago ( https://lemmyverse.link/lemm.ee/post/52588852 ) to have instances that would hide political communities from the All feed to be more welcoming to new joiners.
If a generalist instance implemented a similar hide list, it could become the one recommendation for new joiners, at it would avoid overwhelming them with politics.
Hidden communities can still be accessed, but don’t show up on All unless you subscribe to them.
Well, you can’t see posts even if you browse into the community directly. You have to subscribe to the community or else you can’t see the posts in it, even if you get a direct link to a post it won’t show any comments, and the community won’t show up in search results even if you search for the community ID/URL directly.
The character limit is quite strict in titles, thank you for completing
what we actually need is categoy trees we can subscribe or block, like block all sports, but allow soccer or subscribe to all memes, except shitposting. it’s not good to curate it for all users.
btw when i used reddit many years ago, when signing up, they asked to pick from a tag cloud for the home feed. if we had categories, we could do something like that as well.
Lemmy devs are kinda of set in going their direction, thats been added to piefed and mbin, I doubt lemmy will add that just like lemmy will never add following because the ppl developing it dont want it here
Are you aware of Piefed Topics? https://piefed.social/topic/sports-fitness
yeah, but I’m not sure there’s enough going on for me yet. keeping an eye on it
I am against your proposal.
Because it would effectively amount to a (simple, rudimentary) recommendation algorithm. We should not have such a thing by default. Rather, the user has to explicitely agree to getting “clever” recommendations. Otherwise, we end up in the same mess as Twitter, Facebook, … getting claims that we have a “biased” algorithm.
uhm, there is no algorithm. just choice to subscribe a bunch at once. i don’t even know all meme communities, so how can i subscribe all of them? there is no way at the moment. even if someone knew all and subscribed to them, chances are, if a new one gets created, they will never see it, because they are just getting their subscribed memes.
Great!
