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[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

How does Lemmy decide what to display on my front page? I'm not too familiar with that.

[–] A_be_seedy@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd imagine it's upvotes and time based, which to me sounds like an algorithm. I recognize it as a better and more fair algorithm but idk how it would be argued in court as being different. But I would love to learn with you.

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That sounds like exactly the same thing Reddit does

[–] A_be_seedy@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think reddit does that anymore.

[–] Fleezy419@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

I think they still do for r/all but you can't even access it on mobile, it has to be your personalized feed tooled for maximum engagement.

[–] justaman123@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah good question, also it would be nice to have like a disinterested button so I could hide items instead of being shown them over and over again. I do tend to go to my all or local page and sort by top for the last 12 hours to get a better mix

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Most apps let you automatically hide posts you've looked at previously. I'm not sure if you just need to scroll by or if you need to actively engage with it, but it's there if you want that

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Lemmy on Voyager has an option to ride read posts but by "read" you either have to click on it or up/downvote.

Edit: HIDE read posts.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Boost has an option to mark posts as read when scrolled past.

I would suggest that judicious use of the block function is more effective, though. It's the same handful of users who consistently are the proverbial firehoses spraying all that shit-tier content into the fediverse.

Block them one by one and in no time at all your feed will clean up. More quality per scroll in the long run.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Agreed. I block people who spam the same articles in tons of questionably related instances.

[–] justaman123@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Oh so I gotta click on or upvoter downvote to get rid of em. Thx

[–] kevin2107@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

its literally open source....