In the screenshot you can see that there is currently one rising community overloading my post feed. I assume this is happening to many users. I understand that I can block the community but that’s not really what I want. I think that this problem could be solved by introducing a mechanism to dynamically limit the number of such posts based on user preferences. For example I could set this community to appear less often and an algorithm could apply this preference to my feed order. I know that the proverbial algorithms used by major social networks are frowned upon. That happens for a good reason - they are opaque, proprietary and often show signs of bad intention. They are used for political and social influence, to silence opposing voices and a whole array of other nefarious goals like playing of people’s fear, outrage, etc. The thing I’m suggesting would have to be transparent by design and fully optional. That’s a social media “algorithm” I’d like to use. I’d like to hear what other people think about this idea.

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    Random slots, where random posts (age/upvote count does not matter) are introduced and marked as such could help in such a problem without complex systems.

    The proportion of these random slots could be a user-setting.

    Something similar to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Random Does this exist in lemmy (backend) api?