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I made a Lemmy instance with a custom algorithm that keeps only the top 20% most unique (=interesting?) posts. It does this by calculating a similarity score between every post on my instance and all posts that came before it. The top 80% of posts with the highest self-similarity get removed instantly.

The idea would be that this allows me to cut through the noise that's running through the communities, similar to how xkcd-signal attempted to do 20 years ago.

The instance is mostly meant for reading, not posting. So it has a very open federation policy (for now).

If anything, this is experimental. So please let me know what you think! You can see the type of stuff that gets removed in the modlog (https://lemmy.coffee/modlog).

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[-] coffeeadmin@lemmy.coffee 1 points 1 week ago

Maybe I misremember but didn't voyager have ads? That was a turn off for me.

Or maybe that was boost?

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

That sounds like Boost. Voyager is FOSS.

I want to like Thunder, and I'm sure there's all sorts of reasons to, I just haven't seen any of them yet:-).

[-] coffeeadmin@lemmy.coffee 2 points 1 week ago

My mistake then. I have to give Voyager another try, I guess :)

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

And I need to give Thunder a real try - voting and commenting and such tend to be somewhat important components of the experience ๐Ÿ™‚

this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2025
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