I’ve noticed that the “All” feed on Lemmy is pretty much the same across all instances, showing posts from every instance regardless of the specific focus or community vibe of the instance you’re on. This seems like a missed opportunity to make the experience more tailored and engaging for each instance’s unique audience.
For example, if there were an instance dedicated to literature lovers, wouldn’t it make sense for the “All” feed on that instance to prioritize content that’s more relevant to people who enjoy books, poetry, and writing? Instead of being a global feed that shows everything from memes to tech news, it could reflect the interests and values of the instance’s community.
I feel like making the “All” feed more tailored to each instance would not only improve user experience but also strengthen the sense of community within each instance. What do you think? Would love to hear everyone’s thoughts!
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The problem I see with this idea is that I have no idea who most people are on “my” instance or what sort of content they’re interested in. Even for a topic based instance like https://startrek.website/, outside of Star Trek, what are the chances that the interests of the members align?
The Lemmy developers were working on making user defined custom feeds. If that ever get implemented, I’d certainly give many ideas a try. But the Lemmy devs don’t have any new feed options on their priority list and I doubt they will anytime soon.
The main dev (only dev?) of piefed seems much more likely to implement new ideas. For example, I had mentioned that only votes from a community’s subscribers should be counted on posts to said community by default with the owner of the community given an option to count all votes. It was implemented within days.
“All” is all content on the fediverse, across all instances with which your home instance is federated. It will be similar for all instances, because most are federated with the big instances and those tend to have more posts and interaction.
If you only want to see the feed of communities on your local instance, you can just browse your “Local” feed.
I’m not referring to the amount of content but how it is curated. If it showed the content sorted by votes from the local instance instead of an aggregate of all instances the content would differ form instance to instance.
All means all, it’s not meant to be curated.
That said, it sounds like you are suggesting more of another sorting algorithm. Could be a neat idea.
But then you’d only be seeing your instance…?
Which is already a thing, browsing by local…?
