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Scaled sort seems broken for small communities (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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Whenever I subscribe to a small but very active community, for example lefty_news@ibbit.at, my Scaled sort feed gets flooded almost entirely by posts from that one community. I thought Scaled sort was supposed to highlight outliers across all communities to prevent a single instance from dominating the feed. Is this a bug or just how it's supposed to work?

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[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's just a scaler on the points, it doesn't have any balancing methods in it. Few users means big multiplier on the scores.

Usually few users means few posts.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

This is a known issue and will be fixed in Lemmy 1.0: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5210

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Piefed has feeds, which allows to organize subscriptions and avoid that kind of issues