I've noticed that there are a few communities that tend to dominate when viewing all. Some days it gets to where looking at all isn't very different than just looking at Memes@lemmy.ml or 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone.

Before someone says "you can just block communities you don't want to see," it's not that I never want to see them, it's that I want to be able to have a view that shows me what is new and popular in a wide variety of communities. I appreciate seeing a few good memes in my feed. The problem is when that's all I see. Changing the sort from active to hot or top x days doesn't have much effect on which communities dominate, so that isn't the solution either.

"You can just subscribe to communities you like". True, but that has the effect of narrowing what I see. I'd like a view that showed me new things I never thought to subscribe to.

Lemmy devs - if you are reading this - it would be nice to have a feed that limited the number of posts showing up from any particular community. It could be a simple cutoff of 2 or 3 posts, or maybe some sort of weighting function to cause additional posts from the same community to appear lower in the sort order for that feed.

I'd love to hear what devs and other users think about this.

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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Another, related issue to this is that I find the three frontpage categories (All/Local/Subscribed) to be too blunt of a sorting method.

I would really love if we had the option to create subcategories to our Subscribed feed, so we could group related communities and end up with different frontpages for News/Sports/Memes etc.

[–] Phlogiston@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I too would like a 'custom feed' functionality.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Being able to filter by language would also be super helpful.

Im sure the Swedish gaming community is great, some lovely Svens and Ingas but I dont speak swedish. Being able to autofilter subs by default language would be awesome.

[–] Salix@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

[–] gonzo0815@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

That's a really great idea!

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't that what reddit's "multi Reddit" was all about?

[–] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

I always hated multi-reddit because it never worked the way I wanted it to.

I wanted it to give me an r/all setup for a specific sets of subreddits. What it did was just give posts from every subreddit in the list, including ones that hadn't had posts in months. It was just trash to try to use.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes. It's been discussed on the Lemmy GitHub so it's in the works, but that's all I know.