In the screenshot you can see that there is currently one rising community overloading my post feed. I assume this is happening to many users. I understand that I can block the community but that’s not really what I want. I think that this problem could be solved by introducing a mechanism to dynamically limit the number of such posts based on user preferences. For example I could set this community to appear less often and an algorithm could apply this preference to my feed order. I know that the proverbial algorithms used by major social networks are frowned upon. That happens for a good reason - they are opaque, proprietary and often show signs of bad intention. They are used for political and social influence, to silence opposing voices and a whole array of other nefarious goals like playing of people’s fear, outrage, etc. The thing I’m suggesting would have to be transparent by design and fully optional. That’s a social media “algorithm” I’d like to use. I’d like to hear what other people think about this idea.
I ended up blocking the community so I could see any other posts. How does this happen with Lemmy? Like honestly, I am confused about this.
Short answer? The service is still incredibly small and posts aren’t usually flooding in second-by-second like you may be used to on the much bigger sites, so one over-agressive user can easily dominate the front page for a while, purposefully or not. That’s just going to happen.
If you’d rather not block the whole community, hide the individual posts as you spot them to free up your feed again. If one user keeps dominating your feed, just block them. That’s the best we can do as regular users.
Other options are changing your sorting method. Like if they’re currently dominating the Hot feed, they’re probably not also dominating the Top 12hr feed, just switch to that.