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submitted 2 weeks ago by gressen@lemm.ee to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

In the screenshot you can see that there is currently one rising community overloading my post feed. I assume this is happening to many users. I understand that I can block the community but that's not really what I want. I think that this problem could be solved by introducing a mechanism to dynamically limit the number of such posts based on user preferences. For example I could set this community to appear less often and an algorithm could apply this preference to my feed order. I know that the proverbial algorithms used by major social networks are frowned upon. That happens for a good reason - they are opaque, proprietary and often show signs of bad intention. They are used for political and social influence, to silence opposing voices and a whole array of other nefarious goals like playing of people's fear, outrage, etc. The thing I'm suggesting would have to be transparent by design and fully optional. That's a social media "algorithm" I'd like to use. I'd like to hear what other people think about this idea.

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[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago

I think even just a frontend (web UI or mobile app) could fix this pretty easily

when it loads a page with many posts from the same community, it only shows 1 or 2 and puts the rest in a queue to show on later pages

[-] gressen@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

Sure, it could work as a client-side filter but then you need to develop the functionality for multiple clients.

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yep. But it could be seen as an advantage your app has that others don't, and different apps can try different approaches

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