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The changing feel lemmy.ca’s front page (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Back when I joined lemmy.ca, the front page was full of bicycles, city/province-specific community posts, and others like woodworking This morning, four or five of the front page posts were making fun of some crazy bikini lady(?). I read their “read this first” post and understand why they’re doing what they’re doing, but is there a way to get our default front page to be a bit more…friendly and community-oriented?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (5 children)

You can only change it for yourself by changing it to subscribed, or changing it to all. https://lemmy.ca/settings

Compared to other social media sites, lemmy doesn't curate/manipulate in the "feed". This is both good and bad. Because .ca isn't just Canadians, but every instance we are linked to, whatever communities from here that get a little traction globally will poison the feed.

It order to fix that, .ca would need to limit what kinds of communities can be made on this instance. They do this with the no porn/bigotry rule, but that's still not very specific. There is also the issue of a small number of people on the platform creating 50+ communities, not doing anything with them, not even making a single post. This poisons looking for new communities.
They could decide to change the rules and remove a bunch of communities, but I assume the admins discussed this, coming to the conclusion that it would drive a large amount of people away.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

It order to fix that, .ca would need to limit what kinds of communities can be made on this instance

Why not just curate the frontpage feed? I don't think you can avoid having to do this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Because the lemmy software doesn't do a curated feed, and there isn't one "front page". There are 57 options for what you see when you first log in, depending on what you chose in your https://lemmy.ca/settings.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Can.... can we change that so it does have a curated feed? 57 options isn't exactly user friendly and it's not really a solution to OP's complaint (echoed by others in this thread). Anyone know if the Lemmy devs would accept a patch for something like that?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Late answer, but https://quiblr.com/ can be used for a curated feed for Lemmy

Announcement from a month ago: https://lemmy.ca/post/22440619?scrollToComments=true

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

If you would like to propose it to them or provide the code, they are the admins of Lemmy.ml and here's the github: https://github.com/LemmyNet