I hate it that I muss all interesting low volume communities posts

Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨jeena@jemmy.jeena.net⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

I wish Lemmy had the Mastodon functionality to create your own lists of communities. I subscribe to a ton of communities and I have a couple of them which are very low volume but I’m very interested in seeing each and every post there. Right now I have to remember them and go to them specifically once every couple of days to check if there are new posts there.

In Mastodon I have a #Homies list which is always visible and there I see the posts of people I personally know and want to see each post of them. It’s amazing and easy to implement.

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Chainweasel@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Mastodon is federated though, couldn’t you just create those lists of Lemmy communities and view them in your preferred method on Mastodon?

Not trying to sound like a smartass but it seems like a possible solution to your problem.

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- jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, as a workaround perhaps, I will try to check. But the UI is not very good for shawing Lemmy posts on Mastodon.
  
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  - thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I actually do this with a few crafting communities that rarely get new posts, makes it easy to see when something pops up in one of them.
    
    It’s not ideal obviously and I do hope we get these sorts of features eventually, but in the meantime it’s a decent workaround for a very specific situation.
    
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- wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s a functional workaround, but Lemmy’s version of federation where every single post and comment gets boosted by the community “account” makes things difficult to handle.
  
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dystop@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Why not sort your subscribed communities by New?

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- SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Wouldn’t that lead to the same problem of low volume communities getting pushed out by high volume communities?
  
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- jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That is exactly what I’m doing but the high volume communities just push out so many posts that it’s impossible for me to read every single one to be sure that I didn’t miss any from the low volume ones.
  
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  - m_f@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Which communities are so high volume? I sort by new and don’t have any issues reading every single post from my subscriptions
    
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- can@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Recent attacks for one.
  
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- SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Wouldn’t that lead to the same problem of low volume communities getting pushed out by high volume communities?
  
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  - naught@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    high volume comment
    
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- crypticthree@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I do top of the hour
  
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Spacebar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I want to be able to browse just the communities I moderate. Communit lists would address this.

Lemmys mod capabilities are pretty poor in general. It’s holding back adoption of lemmy.

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- nowwhatnapster@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Kbin has a moderated filter which is nice
  
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- realcaseyrollins@kbin.projectsegfau.lt ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I'd like this too, especially since I moderate far fewer communities than I subscribe to, it would make it easier to keep tabs on the content that's being posted.
  
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Rescuer6394@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
i would like a random sorting in a given time frame. for example, random 6h.

same as top but wirh posts ordered randomly.

this mitigate your problem but not solve It entirely.

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- NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Random sort? How do you do that?
  
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  - Rescuer6394@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    you don’t, i just wish you could
    
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idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This isn’t a permanent solution but this could be a temporary solution until this gets implemented by the lemmy devs. If you are already using an app and are on Android Summit for Lemmy supports multi-communities.

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- jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ah interesting, I’ll check it out, thanks for the tip!
  
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dhork@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Make sure to check “new” now and then. That will show you all posts chronologically, regardless of how visible they are to the other algorithms.

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- jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  New is my default, but because I’m in a different time zone than many of those low volume ones I more often than not miss all their posts.
  
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  - FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Do you restrict to a certain amount of time?
    
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Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Have you tried blocking? I have found blocking a few communities and users helps keep my feed less annoying. I do agree with you, tho, I wish there was a better way to promote the niche stuff we want to see and not have to wade through a lot of repetitive “front page” stuff constantly.

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- jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I could just unsubscribe but then I would not see those at all. But perhaps a bit more feed hygiene would help with this already, I never unsubscribed but perhaps it’s time to to some clean up.
  
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  - Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yes, I try to limit stuff that I block but it’s a helpful tool for things I have zero interest in.
    
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oldGregg@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I sort by all/new comments and block the communities I’m not interested in

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LeftRedditOnJul1@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I hear you, I’ve been struggling with that as well. Right now just experimenting with alt accounts that I can use in place of different feeds, but I recognize that might be inconvenient.

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zoe@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
lemmy.wold eats up most of the feed and eclipses smmaller coms, in a way that i hav to filter it so i could see the niche and curious stuff, which happens to be interesting most of the time.

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