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!
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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 particuoar 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.
Because “All” is everything, from every instance? You can already do what you want with “Local.”
Its only everything from other instances and communities that the current instance subscribes to. It doesn’t subscribe to the full pipe of everything.
What’s likely happening is people in aggregate generally subscribe to the most popular communities and those communities have the most upvoted posts.
“All” is all content on the fediverse, across all instances with which your home instance is federated. It will be similar for all instances, because most are federated with the big instances and those tend to have more posts and interaction.
If you only want to see the feed of communities on your local instance, you can just browse your “Local” feed.
I’m not referring to the amount of content but how it is curated. If it showed the content sorted by votes from the local instance instead of an aggregate of all instances the content would differ form instance to instance.
But then you’d only be seeing your instance…?
Which is already a thing, browsing by local…?
They are on reddthat.com. “Local” would show them posts from reddthat.com communities; it would not show them posts from lemmy.world communities.
Suppose a post on a lemmy.world community is downvoted by the fediverse in general. However, that same post is highly popular among reddthat.com users, for whatever reason.
This user would like that post to appear high in reddthat.com/all, even though it would not appear high on lemmy.world/all.
The idea is kinda interesting. “all” is not the right category for it, but the idea of instance-peer curation has merit.
to me this feels more like a sort option than entire feed, since it’ll be the same content as the all feed. like the idea though
All means all, it’s not meant to be curated.
That said, it sounds like you are suggesting more of another sorting algorithm. Could be a neat idea.
That would make it unusable for single user instances…
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
That’s what the local feed is for.
I’m constantly surprised by people who don’t seem to understand what ALL means.I don’t think changing the default behaviour of the All feed is wise, but adding a sorting option like Hot(Local) or something to the All feed to see what is trending in terms of votes from your local instance could be interesting for medium sized instances. But for any small or tiny instance this would be essentially worthless so it would have to be optional.
Because then it wouldn’t be “all” any more.
You could do something like that, where instance admins choose what they believe is more relevant, but then it would be better to call it “featured” or “curated”…
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.
