If I subscribe 2 or 3 large coms, all the more quiet coms that I want to hear from get wiped out from the first pages of the feed...is there a way to recover them, by having like an upvote (increase weight by +1) subscribe button in an already subscribed com (upsubscribe, lol)...or maybe a multi? What do you use in these cases?

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[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sorting by scaled helps a little bit, but some communities just post soooo much that they drown out everything else. In order to fix that you would need “multireddits”, which don’t exist on Lemmy.

For the time being, I recommend making two accounts and using one exclusively for subscribing to the really busy communities. The other one could be used for everything else. It’s also an opportunity to try out a different instance.

If you find that one feed is getting dominated by a single community again, you may need to create a third account to manage your subscriptions appropriately.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Sort feed by ‘scaled’

[–] tiz@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 days ago

Didn’t know this was a thing. Thanks!

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 17 points 4 days ago

Cool, that helps bring the quiet ones out a bit.

[–] Blueoaky@mander.xyz 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Thanks! How does it work? Can I influence it?

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 13 points 4 days ago

You can't influence it https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago

You can not influence it. Here's a link with more info.

Lemmy uses the same Rank algorithm above, in three sorts: Active, Hot, and Scaled.

Active uses the post votes, and latest comment time (limited to two days).

Hot uses the post votes, and the post published time.

Scaled is similar to Hot, but gives a boost to smaller / less active communities.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Didn't think I had that on a PC browser! For everyone missing it like I did, it's under your main settings.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Use alts per topic you want to follow, or use Piefed and the personal feeds.

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 6 points 4 days ago

Others have already pointed out scaled (my default sort) but I have often thought I would like to see a full feed for my quieter comms. Without making a new only-quiet-comms account or modifying a Lemmy client the only way I've thought of is to subscribe to the RSS feeds (but that means using a different app and managing two sets of subscriptions).