EternalExplorer

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Anyone else missing posts in smaller Lemmy communities because they are overshadowed by the popular ones? (lemm.ee)
 

I tend to miss posts in smaller communities, no matter what sorting options I use when I display the "Subscribed" feed on the frontpage.

If I sort by "New", unsurprisingly most new posts are on the popular communities. Same if I select "Hot", "Active", or "Top Hour" etc. Overall it makes sense, small communities don't have new content as often, and threads there are not that "active" as there not many users.

I think the algorithm should somehow ensure a more diverse feed. There also no "multi-reddits" atm, so you can't just create a feed of those smaller communities.

Of course, I could create another account and only subscribe to small communities, but that's inconvenient. Simply checking them manually is what I do atm, but it's also not that convenient. A temporal solution might be using the RSS feeds, but overall it seems something should be done about it on Lemmy's end.

So, anyone else experiencing that or am I missing something? Because if I am not the only one then perhaps this issue should be brought to the attention of the devs (if it wasn't already).

Who here still wears a mask? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] EternalExplorer@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This thread is an interesting "filter bubble" experience. Here, a city in central europe, nobody I know wears one anymore, even those who were always extra-careful on the cautious side. Basically nobody in stores wears one nor in public transport. Yeah, on occasion you find 1-2 exceptions that confirm the rule.

Probably, this thread is largely visited by those who still do, and ignored by those who don't.

Gentoo vs. NixOS for a simple desktop system in c/gentoo@reddthat.com
[–] EternalExplorer@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another thing that I thought of is that maybe I can somewhat replicate NixOS’ rollback feature, which is my absolute favourite feature of it, using a combination of Git and ZFS snapshots? I’d like to hear your thoughts on this.

While I don't know what exactly NixOS' rollback feature entails, I run / on btrfs and use a cronjob to create snapshots of the "rootfs" subvolume. I maintain a history for the last 48h. This allows me to roll back when something goes wrong, which basically never happens though. That way though there is basically nothing to fear when doing large updates.

Welcome to lemm.ee! in c/meta@lemm.ee
[–] EternalExplorer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, my previous instance has had some issues with stability and database corruption repeatedly. Lost posts, subscriptions etc. I am here now due to the similar federation policy, which I believe is the right one. The performance is also great. Very promising!