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What would you like to change about Lemmy culture? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago by PinkyCoyote@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is a great comment, thank you. Very good links.

Do you know how federation affects the sorts? I assume, based on my longer experience with Mastodon, that the All feed is actually just all of the posts that have been federated to my instance i.e. someone on my instance is subscribed to that community. So any communities no one on my server is subscribed to are invisible regardless of sort.

That implies the All feed is unique to each server, and therefore all of the sorts are also unique. Which would mean for at least a certain percentage of posts, they might be in your hot or active feeds, even though no one is really interacting with them much any more.

What do you think? Maybe it doesn't work as much like Mastodon as I think, but since it's all the same fediverse it feels like a logical assumption.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Put simply, the sorting / ranking is based on the score and the time published, so as long as things are getting federated within a few seconds, then federated posts / comments are no different from local ones. Mastodon only sorts things by newest AFAIK.

That implies the All feed is unique to each server, and therefore all of the sorts are also unique. Which would mean for at least a certain percentage of posts, they might be in your hot or active feeds, even though no one is really interacting with them much any more.

Should only be an issue if your server blocks other ones.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So is the All feed actually all communities and not just ones federated to your instance by virtue of someone on the instance subscribing? That was really the crux of my question.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah, this is completely different and has nothing to do with sorting. All means the latter, IE communities connected to your instance, that your instance knows about. Lemmy doesn't crawl anything, federated communities need to get subscribed to first, then posts can start coming in for them.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes but also no. Because if the contents of All are unique to each server, that has some implications for which posts appear in the various sorts, right? Maybe I'm overthinking and the effect is minute, but I feel like in at least some cases it would mean less active posts could squeeze out more active posts.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Its best to just think of them as separate to keep it clear. Sorting affects all posts (federated or not) in the same way.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Alright. I appreciate the conversation. I feel like I'm not getting my point across, but that's cool. I'm not going to keep bugging you. Thanks again!