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I tend to miss posts in smaller communities, no matter what sorting options I use when I display the "Subscribed" feed on the frontpage.

If I sort by "New", unsurprisingly most new posts are on the popular communities. Same if I select "Hot", "Active", or "Top Hour" etc. Overall it makes sense, small communities don't have new content as often, and threads there are not that "active" as there not many users.

I think the algorithm should somehow ensure a more diverse feed. There also no "multi-reddits" atm, so you can't just create a feed of those smaller communities.

Of course, I could create another account and only subscribe to small communities, but that's inconvenient. Simply checking them manually is what I do atm, but it's also not that convenient. A temporal solution might be using the RSS feeds, but overall it seems something should be done about it on Lemmy's end.

So, anyone else experiencing that or am I missing something? Because if I am not the only one then perhaps this issue should be brought to the attention of the devs (if it wasn't already).

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[-] Anon819450514@lemmy.ca 120 points 1 year ago

You should go see the github for lemmy-ui. There is feature request to add the weight of the community into account so we don't only see the most popular post from the biggest communities. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues

[-] allmond226@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

The problem is I mostly use lemmy(or reddit before) on mobile, so sadly all this neat stuff doesn't help me

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

The sorting systems are server-side, not client.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

If web adds it, it is likely many apps will follow suit. It's all open source after all.

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