It’s a systematic problem. The large LW communities have a stranglehold that prevents new ones from taking hold.
For Lemmy to improve, there needs to be a very easy way to find new communities, particularly on different instances!
Currently there is no way to navigate communities on other instances without a direct keyword search, or by opening a private window to get the link directly from the other server as a logged off user. Clicking the ‘Communities’ link also needs to default to rising new communities, and not to existing communities.
There also needs to be a major change to the hot/active sorting algorithm to favor small communities with higher engagement % over large ones with higher net upvotes (lower engagement %). The top ten communities should be changing from month to month - otherwise large communities will only get further entrenched and moderation will only get worse.
This is a change that the devs would have to implement. Otherwise dbzer0 or lemmyzip or whatever other server that grows next will just eventually turn into LW and the same problem will repeat.
Does anyone know if these ideas have already been discussed in a closed pull request?
I just unsubscribed from almost all lemmy world communities and checked scaled and it’s actually a decent sort. Before it was just spam and junk. Not sure why it changed so much.
Then you create a login on any other server, go to settings and import the file.
It does not transfer your comments and posts or any other community mod stuff. It is essentially a new account, but with the same user configurable settings.
It’s a systematic problem. The large LW communities have a stranglehold that prevents new ones from taking hold.
For Lemmy to improve, there needs to be a very easy way to find new communities, particularly on different instances!
Currently there is no way to navigate communities on other instances without a direct keyword search, or by opening a private window to get the link directly from the other server as a logged off user. Clicking the ‘Communities’ link also needs to default to rising new communities, and not to existing communities.
There also needs to be a major change to the hot/active sorting algorithm to favor small communities with higher engagement % over large ones with higher net upvotes (lower engagement %). The top ten communities should be changing from month to month - otherwise large communities will only get further entrenched and moderation will only get worse.
This is a change that the devs would have to implement. Otherwise dbzer0 or lemmyzip or whatever other server that grows next will just eventually turn into LW and the same problem will repeat.
Does anyone know if these ideas have already been discussed in a closed pull request?
!newcommunities@lemmy.world
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
That already exists. It’s called “Scaled,” and it’s way better than the default active sort. Why it isn’t the default, I don’t know.
I just unsubscribed from almost all lemmy world communities and checked scaled and it’s actually a decent sort. Before it was just spam and junk. Not sure why it changed so much.
I’m lazy but might switch instances. Someone care to link me to an easy how-to? Please and thank you.
Under settings there is “Import/Export Settings” on the right side. It turns your profile settings data (including subscriptions and blocklists) into a json file.
Then you create a login on any other server, go to settings and import the file.
It does not transfer your comments and posts or any other community mod stuff. It is essentially a new account, but with the same user configurable settings.
Thank you!