Imo that’s as much a problem of the sorting algorithm as it is with a single community blasting out too many posts at once without any consideration for how current frontends are unable to usefully integrate that into people’s feeds. A couple of years ago nanoUFO was being a bit (subjectively) overenthusiastic about posting - I counted and !games@sh.itjust.works had 40 posts at once from them and it made the first couple pages of my feed basically unusable for a while.

Scaled is also probably better suited for your subscribed feed rather than /All.

What are your blocking habits?

I made it through nearly two years and eventually caved after I made the mistake of arguing in favor of the truth, supported by video evidence and a fact check from an internationally recognized fact-checking organization only to be told to “fuck off”, a second user said that they enjoyed pissing on my shoe(s) in their personal fight against truth, and some other catastrophically braindead takes. I generally don’t like the blocking approach for opinions I don’t agree with because everyone has differing views and also people have bad days and that’s just life. However, being actively hostile to the truth and being extremely confrontational about it was a bridge too far for me and it was either blocking a few mouldy potatoes in an attempt to keep things tolerable or getting off the threadi/fediverse so I decided to give the former a whirl.

If you do block a lot of people, has that affected your experience?

Thankfully haven’t felt the need to block many, so the only thing I’ve really noticed is that occasionally one of the blocked users comments in the thread for something I’ve submitted (which I don’t get a notification for and can’t see) - but then someone unrelated replies to them and then I get a notification for a comment chain which I can’t actually load. It took me a while to even figure out why I was getting these “ghost” notifications.

the kbin.social domain expires in a few days, on 10 September

Looks like someone might’ve bought the domain?

FYI your first link isn’t actually inside of your spoiler tag

An empty stomach
Hungry for my beloved starch
Life in Latvia

Knock at door. “Who is?” “Free potato”. Open door. Is secret police.

https://xkcd.com/221/

We just sent the code

Somehow this phrase triggered a memory of this short comedy sketch: https://youtu.be/LButXcZ57pc

Tbh I thought it was a bunch of non-lemmy platforms (e.g., mbin which fedia.io runs - anecdotally it usually happens due to some types of edits not federating well), but if someone from infosec.pub (which runs lemmy) also had the problem then I’m actually not sure what the common factor is lol

edit: the common factor might just be instances that have blocked lemmy.ml, which currently includes fedia.io (my instance) and infosec.pub (the other commenter’s instance), though I’m surprised links to lemmy.ml’s hosted images are included in the block

Yes! It still maintains some features not in mainline Mastodon, which I guess is why infosec.exchange runs it

Image link for those on platforms that don’t see it (e.g., me): https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/745658dd-60ef-44f9-bcf9-290aa9f23573.webp

https://lemmy.world/post/30798447

Kinda scary that the threadi (??) instance with the (probably) second-highest active users struggled enough to warrant a shutdown :(

Thanks! I did actually Ctrl+F the first two pages but that post has unfortunately not federated to me so I can’t see it on my instance! The woes of federated social media :(

https://fedia.io/media/76/9c/769c2c9146db022100a057732ac38d2502b3a8edc32068b3ff484e43006bed7b.png

I’ll delete the post to preempt anyone else from getting upset at me despite doing nothing wrong 🫠

Weirdly grateful right now that lemmy image embeds don’t work properly on mbin (they fall back to being ordinary URLs) 🫠

It’s technically an option, yeah, but as you said it’s not something practically used as an “everyday” feed-sorting algorithm. It’s not as though it’s a default or suggested sort option - compare that to Mastodon where it’s the only sort option X_X

Definitely agree that the the common-with-Mastodon viewpoint of exclusively using chronological feeds seems to have over-corrected too far. Can you imagine if the threadiverse was sorted that way? It would be insane and essentially unusable at scale - so we can at least acknowledge that sorting algorithms have a useful place and are not some unsalvageable, irredeemable evil. I wish there was something like a bunch of open source algorithms which the user could choose between in whatever UI they’re using. At the very least there should be some acknowledgement that I, the user, don’t have an identical level of interest in every account I follow, or even in every topic which the same account posts about.

And while microblogging platforms seem to have it worst, there have also been times in the threadiverse where I’ve subscribed to a community/magazine only to later unsubscribe because the activity levels it produces in my feed are much higher than my interest levels in it. So even here (where we have sorting by “hot” etc), some kind of user-configurable weighting would be nice to better match how I actually want my feed to work!

edit: typo

Searching for the phrase, documentation matches for Taiga so maybe you’re right!

For what it’s worth I generally agree with you, and especially think the people who treat /all as their own personal feed are nuts, but nonetheless it’s something that some people do 🫠

Everyone has their own preferences about how to use things!

Browsing the global/all feed is one way to find new communities, and some people just like using it in general rather than defaulting to a subs-only view.

Just be aware that some places/connections have trouble connecting with it: https://catbox.moe/faq.php (under Connectivity Issues)