I’ve noticed that the “All” feed on Lemmy is pretty much the same across all instances, showing posts from every instance regardless of the specific focus or community vibe of the instance you’re on. This seems like a missed opportunity to make the experience more tailored and engaging for each instance’s unique audience.
For example, if there were an instance dedicated to literature lovers, wouldn’t it make sense for the “All” feed on that instance to prioritize content that’s more relevant to people who enjoy books, poetry, and writing? Instead of being a global feed that shows everything from memes to tech news, it could reflect the interests and values of the instance’s community.
I feel like making the “All” feed more tailored to each instance would not only improve user experience but also strengthen the sense of community within each instance. What do you think? Would love to hear everyone’s thoughts!
Well it is a little different because it won’t include instances your instance is defederated from.
But what you’re wanting is essentially why subscriptions are there
That being said, an instance curated feed alongside the all feed and local would be a cool option.
Using your example, literature.cafe having an admin selected feed of communities relating to writing would be awesome.
But, there aren’t actually many instances where that would be useful, since there aren’t that many focused on specific subjects.
The all feed is there for everything federated, and that doesn’t need to change. It’s a big part of how and why the fediverse is so cool. So fucking with it is a bad idea. Adding in options is nice, but the lemmy development has a roadmap that’s pretty focused on functionality and stability, so don’t expect this kind of addition soon
Allfetches content from every* instance that your instance knows about. In my opinion, making it different per instance is a horrible idea, because it would mean that some content may or may not be visible from a particular instance, and I’d have to keep checking different instances. Not to mention this would be confusing for people new to Lemmy (e.g. “why does this instance’sAlllook different from that one’s? I thought instances didn’t matter?”)*except defederated instances, of course.
edit: So, thanks to this comment, I understood what you’re requesting, and it does seem like an interesting idea. However, rather than a seperate feed, this should just be a sort option.
The problem I see with this idea is that I have no idea who most people are on “my” instance or what sort of content they’re interested in. Even for a topic based instance like https://startrek.website/, outside of Star Trek, what are the chances that the interests of the members align?
The Lemmy developers were working on making user defined custom feeds. If that ever get implemented, I’d certainly give many ideas a try. But the Lemmy devs don’t have any new feed options on their priority list and I doubt they will anytime soon.
The main dev (only dev?) of piefed seems much more likely to implement new ideas. For example, I had mentioned that only votes from a community’s subscribers should be counted on posts to said community by default with the owner of the community given an option to count all votes. It was implemented within days.
The all feed is all federated instances. If you want a different one you would have to find one federated to different instances. And if it was tailored, it wouldn’t be “all” now would it.
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browse /all/new
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block every instance/comm/poster I don’t wanna see
It’s that simple 🤷♂️ if I see something new I don’t like, boom, list get bigger.
That works if you never ever want to change your mind about not seeing stuff. Otherwise it sounds like a nightmare
Huh? I just go to my block list if I really feel like suddenly seeing posts in foreign languages or about subject matter I’ve never had an interest in.
My subscribed feed isn’t that active, if I want to see new posts every few hours I might as well just stick to all/new tbh
Oh I thought that was assumed.
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There should be another feed, besides subscribed, local and all, that shows the channels that are relevant to the instance.
This idea relates to custom collections: https://lemmy.world/post/26654286
How do you define “relevant to the instance”?
Posted, commented, or voted on by members of your instance, without counting what the rest of the fediverse is doing with it.
Can only speak for myself, but anything the instance admin deems related. Or voted / suggested by their members.
Seems like an opportunity to lose users. The whole instance thing is already kinda confusing for new people (source: just joined yesterday), but making every instance only connect to a select few instances would mean having to make an account on multiple different instances if you wanted to see a disparate selection of content. As much as I enjoy debating politics and religion I wouldn’t join a server that only showed those communities because I also like videos of huskies being sassy, battletech memes, etc.
You are local for the Local feed. Example for literature.cafe: https://literature.cafe/
There is indeed some plan to tweak the All feed, but it’s usually quite light: https://lemmy.zip/post/33065677
How have you been here for a year and don’t know you can sort your feed?
