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[–] 28 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

There are only feeds for Subscribed, Local and All. Things can only show up there is they fall under one of those categories. Then the secondary filter determines the order. New is going to be chronological, Hot is some formula of votes per hour, active is some formula of comments per hour, old is probably reverse chronologically. etc..

It won't ever factor in what you visit and engage with on its own.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Thanks that makes sense. I get why some people are against it, but ranking on your engagement can be super useful imo. Like if I comment on a couple niche communities a lot, I don’t want those to be drowned out by the much larger communities.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    So check on those couple niche communities more often. All and Local feeds are not meant to deliver you custom content, Home is a curated list that you create, and if there’s anything you want to see more of, visit it directly as often as you like.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It'd be nice if each one was weighted and we could adjust the weights to see some more than others. By default it would just be as it is now.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Even simpler, I think being able to "favourite" some communities and (optionally?) applying a greater weight to those communities in a user's feeds would solve the problem quite nicely.

    I can't really imagine wanting to do the reverse anyway (subscribed to a community but I want to see less of its content)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I thoroughly enjoy being able to design my own feed, and not have some corporation shove stuff down my throat in order to keep my engagement up. The past couple times I've checked facebook (primarily to check events) I've left again almost immediately, because I'm so put off by the way they shove stuff in my face just to find out what I'm interested in. I've even noticed that if I spend more time looking at a post from some source (no clicks/interaction, just reading text on an image) they start funnelling more of that into my feed.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I've been using "Subscribed" and "Top Day" for a while. Works well for me. If I used "All" there would be a large number of communities I'd need to block. Easier to just join the ones you want to see.

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