Lemmy has Hot, Active, and Top sort modes, all of which are different indicators of engagement.
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
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I'm not looking for groups, I'm looking for individuals.
If Lemmy allows you to follow users and their posts show up in your subscribed feed then it sounds like that would be what you want?
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3903
If you click the Subscribe button on that GitHub issue then you'll get email updates about its progress
That's not at all what I want. I feel like that much should be obvious at this point. Lemmy is a completely different type of social platform than Mastodon and other platforms like it. They do not work the same way.
Mastodon has an "Explore" section, that lists the most popular posts today. It also has subsections for trending news, hashtags, and "for you" which seems to be suggested accounts to follow.
Yes, but this is only trending posts on basically the entirety of Mastodon. I'm looking for posts in my feed to be sorted by engagement. ie: "favorites" and especially # of "boosts".
Ah, I see what you mean now. Yes, that sounds like it would probably be useful, but I hope that they are very careful with slowly adding features that change the network/social dynamics of the place.
I'm not asking them to change anything. Just wondering if there's a different existing service.
I've heard that there are some Mastodon apps that have their own algorithms, but unfortunately don't remember any details. Perhaps that would be something to look into.
check out https://fediview.com/, it sorts your personal mastodon home timeline via an algorithm that you can pick.
On Lemmy we can see things by a number of different sorting algorithms. It's actually a major improvement over Reddit in that regard. I like sorting by top, hourly. I would describe it has having higher kurtosis with lower total volume. The stuff at the top is fresh so if you check every hour or so you get the best of that hour. however if you find yourself scrolling, you'll get into novel territory very fast. It's far better than any alg reddit offered.
Yea for Lemmy it's unnecessary but, I do wish Mastodon had more algorithm recommendation
Firefish (former calckey) seems to have "trends" and "activity" filters on their platform. Saw that on joinfirefish.org
Never used firefish but perhaps try there?
Yeah I've used Firefish, and I do like it a lot, but have been unable to find a stable server. Plus the inability to follow hashtags is a huge drawback...
Can't you use Antennas to follow hashtags?
I dunno, can you? I don't need 12 different feeds. I don't spend that much time on there. I just use the "Home" feed.
You can. Putting, say, #Funny in your antenna will show you everything with the keyword “#Funny”. This is more powerful than just hashtag following, as you can even follow specific words.
Alas, as you mentioned, antenna content doesn’t show up in the home feed yet. I believe there is an open issue to change that.
Last time I went there, I was able to follow hashtags using that feature.
Do you recall which Firefish servers you tried (that were having stability problems)?
I think here on the threadiverse (Lemmy and kbin) is the best of the fediverse for this