I recently came across a proposal to create a marketplace of sorting algorithms for Lemmy, allowing users to browse, select, and even create their own custom sorting algorithms. This would provide more advanced users with additional ways to customize and sort content, and give the community the ability to share their creations. I’m curious to know if this is actually possible within the Fediverse and what your thoughts are on the idea. Would this be a valuable addition to Lemmy, or do you see any potential drawbacks?
Not particularly. I’ve said it before, but “Active” being the default sort is one of the big reason Lemmy is doing well right now, because it concentrates the conversations so that the front page is a lot busier relative to the userbase size.
You are free to submit a pull request to the Lemmy repository if you have a custom sort that you feel would be useful. It’s open source software, no need to have everyone to download a different sort from a third party marketplace.
I can’t be the only one who’s tired of seeing two-day-old posts on the frontpage with active, and less-than-an-hour-old posts with hot
I’m definitely there with you. I actually forgot that hot existed because it’s basically a ‘new’ sort.
On the one hand it’s handy because it makes me browse Lemmy less and do more productive things instead, but it isn’t good for encouraging growth of niche communities and topics if everyone is just looking at the same few posts.
The main problem I see with that approach is that the dropdown with the algorithms is getting ridiculously long. Even if the algorithms are only added through GitHub there should be a way to customize which ones to show.
Use a combobox? Seems easy to solve.