Sorry if this seems like a silly question but I have noticed over the last few months my feed(?) has started to act odd.
No matter what I do I don’t see any posts from .world. I checked and mander does not seem to block .world (kinda why I liked this instance) and even weirder is how my feed gets filled with mostly .ml posts with almost no activity no matter how I sort.
This did not happen before and got me thinking, I don’t even know how this works across federated instances.
Does anyone know:
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How does the sorting work on an instance? Is it all the same no matter what instance it is?
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Did anything change in the last few months, that would cause all .world (and I assume others) posts to not show?
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Other then changing instances what can I do to mitigate the weird slanted results?
The Lemmy algorithm:
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html
The instances communicate between each other using special bots in the background that transport info between instances. Dot world is too big and makes too many requests to other instances. Most instances are reducing the number of transport bots back to dot world right now. There is supposed to be a fix in the next Lemmy version, but the code base is somewhat slow moving due to only two devs and it is written in Rust. Rust is a hard language like C, and not too many here are able to contribute to it, even though it is like the new gold standard of code.
So you might see a delay between posting and replies or the interaction may come in bursts that correspond with the transport bots carrying content between instances as the host admin have configured their instance.
I believe there is some work being done on an alternative code base written in python with flask it has lots of promise and i recon with a bit of extra work it might allow for mastodon integration into one server which would be cool af.
Really want to get to the stage where an account is just a private key I hold and all federated services can work with a single username.
Imagine having a single username which is for all services.
https://piefed.social/ ?
Otherwise, for Mastodon integration, there is mbin with https://kbin.run/ for instance