I think even just a frontend (web UI or mobile app) could fix this pretty easily
when it loads a page with many posts from the same community, it only shows 1 or 2 and puts the rest in a queue to show on later pages
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I think even just a frontend (web UI or mobile app) could fix this pretty easily
when it loads a page with many posts from the same community, it only shows 1 or 2 and puts the rest in a queue to show on later pages
Sure, it could work as a client-side filter but then you need to develop the functionality for multiple clients.
Yep. But it could be seen as an advantage your app has that others don't, and different apps can try different approaches
Mastodon's filter system works wonders, where if you're seeing too much of some keyword you can block that temporarily or permanently, and either erase it entirely from your feed or hide matching posts in a spoiler. It would be awesome if something like that could be adapted for Lemmy.
For current client-agnostic solutions, you can do any of the following on Lemmy:
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.
If you’d rather not block the whole community
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.
That gets very complicated very quickly. I would just choose a different sort algorithm from whatever you have there (hopefully not new). And I would also not use the All feed if you don't want an unfiltered feed of everything as it is.