The All-Feed is very important to increase the content-quality of the threadiverse and therefore, ensure its existense. However, for smaller instances, there is only limited reason to put the All-Feed prominent in their UI, because their posts will never be present there. However, if they push people toward their the Local-Feed (which they currently do), people will only stay on their instance and overall discussion quality declines.

So, to truly overcome instance protectionism, we need a new feed, in which an instance can find a good balance between showing content from other instances and its own.

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  • Spzi@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’m not entirely sure what they meant. There are three settings: All, Subscribed, Local. Instance owners have to choose which is the default for their instance. Neither is “pushing” anything.

    For themed instances, it makes sense to emphasize their local feed. For generic instances, not so much. Either way, users can choose another setting anytime, or even set their own default.

    • blue_berry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m basically just suggesting a feed that takes the Local and All feed, and merges it 50/50. Meaning you have the posts in the order in which you would normally see them but in the same feed. And its not like first a Local post, then an All post, then the next Local post but a bit more shaked up: for each post in the list, a coin is thrown if the next local or all post is picked.

      • Spzi@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I see, thanks. Presented this way, I like the idea much more. I generally like the idea to customize my own feed. So I’d like to take it a step further: Let me choose the numbers. 50/50 seems like a good predefined starting point though.

        Also I wouldn’t stop there but include Subscribed. So while your settings might be 0/50/50 for Subscribed/Local/All, mine would be 70/20/10, and the next guy could choose something entirely different.

        Similarly, I’d like to control how much weight small communities get in these feeds. And I’d like to say “whenever something is posted to this specific community, show it to me! No matter how much other interesting content there is from other communities.”