Jerboa

Frankly, I prefer not to have content similar to what I upvote. I'm not here to stay in my own echo chamber, but to see different opinions, new things.

A sorting algorithm seems out of scope for Jerboa, which is just a lightweight client. The current algorithms, such as they are, are handled by Lemmy itself, and I think it makes more sense to keep it that way so that features aren't unique to this one app. Plus that way you aren't downloading the entire list of content and sorting it locally, which seems somewhat expensive versus just sorting it on the server where it already is.

Relay for Reddit did something I really loved. They had a hide all read or seen posts button that simply removed them from your current list. Didn't affect visibility if you refreshed the list, posts would reappear.

Jerboa should take into account user’s voting pattern and recommend current based on what the user likes.

I would absolutely not want this. I can already curate my feed exactly how I want it with subscriptions, but when I click on All I want it to be the exact same view that everyone else gets.

On the topic of hiding seen posts, yes I think this is a pretty common suggestion/complaint of Lemmy at the moment. Part of it is that there is currently barely a fraction of activity vs. Reddit or other websites. I am curious to see how the feed changes as more people contribute.

Also related, the staleness of 'Hot' and 'Active' is actually a bug and instances can temporary fix it by restarting.

Lemmy already supports showing/not showing seen posts.

All we need is a quick way to toggle it on or off.

I'm here to get away from ALL interest based algorithms, I specifically want to live in a world where it isn't considered normal to outsource your sense of taste to software, because the better they work, the more your development as a person stagnates.

Change comes from seeing content outside of your preferences, to have your views and interests challenged. If a person is only ever shown stuff they already want to see, they stop finding new things and growing.

The whole point of the community>subcommunity format and the voting system is the ability to enable HUMAN self-curation. Why the heck would anyone attracted to lemmy want what you are suggesting? Reddit was already lambasted for introducing their recommended posts into the feed, which was yet another reason I hated their official app and new web interface.

Social media should be a real reflection of humanity, not an AI enforced echo chamber to comfort each person in their unique ways, driving individuals and groups apart, instead of together.

Any algorithms involved should be the same for all, not personalized. The actual content can be customized by what you subscribe to or block. We already have the tools we need to make social media what it should be.

Interest based machine customization is a tool of manipulation and profit. Not equality and freedom of thought. It's most dangerous aspect, that it can skew reality for the whole of the human race, as a it is a filter through which we view ourselves.

I don't love the idea of a neutral vote, because it would necessitate you voting on each and every post for them to stop showing up on your feed, which is actually how the "hide read posts" seems to work right now, but without the neutral vote.

And fuck it, it may be a hot take here, but I don't dislike the idea of suggested posts showing up on your feed. It's a great way to find new communities you wouldn't have found otherwise, even if Reddit was a bit... heavy-handed in its approach

But yeah other than that your idea for showing the user the actual weights used for their suggestions algorithm does sound interesting, but I'm not sure how plausible it is (assuming many of these algorithms use machine learning and the weights are basically meaningless to humans)

I would greatly appreciate any kind of feature to handle read posts, even if it's entirely manual (for now).

That said, I don't have any strong opinions on how this should be implemented. I just wanted to say that the very fact we can have this kind of conversation out in the open is so exciting. Maybe in the very early days of Reddit or Twitter that kind of user feedback was appreciated, but the last decade of monolithic tech giants has been so depressing.

The last week or two has honestly been my most refreshing and invigorating time on the web that I can remember since I got my first Gmail account back when it first went open beta.