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What non-technical criticisms do you have of the Lemmy/kbin/link aggregator fediverse experience? (septic.win)

submitted 1 year ago by LimitedDuck@septic.win to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I strongly agree that it needs to improve. Besides the sorting algorithm issues, one issue is that "all" depends on what people on your instance have subscribed to. So small instances might not have much or have a very biased all. I think Lemmy should at least default to basically subscribing to the N biggest communities for all instances, purely to seed the "all" view.

As well, most instances should default to "all", because "local" is usually going to be extremely limited and misleading. Defaulting to local will just make the fediverse look bad. New users aren't going to realize they can switch to all. They'll just think there's barely any content and leave.