It feels better to me, on my feed I'm seeing a couple loops bunched together, and then a fair number of other posts in between those bunches, so it feels much less like my feed is being drowned out

I think the real solution to this problem would be some sort algorithms that do a better job of prioritizing small communities, and that don't allow one comm to drown out others if it's really active, but short of that, your change seems to have helped :)

Thank you so much for being receptive to my thoughts! I really appreciate the work you do that contributes to lemmy being a place worth going ❤️