2y ago

Is there a way to personalize your feed?

I would really like the ability to create my own algorithm. For example, I follow communities for my local sportsball team and memes. Memes, I really just want to see what's "hot" for the last day but my sportsball I want to see everything posted for the last week.

And the real dream would be to tweak this algorithm across fediverse services.

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Like a multireddit-like ability? I know that would be useful and has been highly requested. I personally would love that function.
- That would be really cool too but I was thinking more like a "See first" "See top only" sort of option between different communities.
  
  Would that not be just sorting by either local (assuming your instance has content you like) or sorting by subscribed communities only?
- What I’d like is a multi-Reddit to aggregate identical named communities (with manual additions/deletions…like a regular multi) across instances.
To differentiate from people who are talking about multireddits, because what I think you're really after is an open content algorithm. The answer is not yet but I think it's only a matter of time. This is the real killer feature of the fediverse that hasn't been talked about yet.
- It would be good, but I'm not sure if the expected Multireddit-style behaviour will ever appear on the threadiverse - at least not in the way I use them (I don't subscribe to any sub in a multireddit) - for the same reason that Lists are limited in value on Mastodon: there appears to be a "safety and privacy" policy in place that prevents you from adding accounts to a List that you're not subscribed to.
  The only reason I use them is to remove their noise from my feed/timeline. Looking at you, Cory Doctorow... 👀
  Maybe it will change, or maybe it will be different here (threadiverse) compared to Mastodon. I guess we'll see.
  
  You may have meant to reply to a different comment. I am specifically not talking about multireddits.
Personally I'm just sorting by Subscribed, Top/Hour to exclude the popular local content that's not of interest to me. For instance no sportsball or gaming, nothing against but I don't care and I need more room for cats, otters, and beby elephants.
Slide has multireddit and, I presume, this would be a feature for Lemmy too.once it's up and running. It's still in an alpha release state.at the moment.
Not yet but the fediverse is an open protocol and standard. Just like email, http, and html have evolved over the years, so can and will the fediverse. If it's technically possible it can happen.
Why not do hot with just your subscription? Or better yet go to that community page and then you only get content about sports.
My thought (but may be wrong) is to use All and block those I don't want. This (I assume) would allow me to see any new areas. It's tons more work but I think ultimately it will expand my areas of interest.
Not yet. Until we get multireddits or something equivalent I just use a folders of bookmarks to specific communities I care about, and then open them all at the same time ¯(ツ)/¯

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