cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5038153

The All-Feed is very important to increase the content-quality of the threadiverse and therefore, ensure its existense. However, for smaller instances, there is only limited reason to put the All-Feed prominent in their UI, because their posts will never be present there. However, if they push people toward their the Local-Feed (which they currently do), people will only stay on their instance and overall discussion quality declines.

So, to truly overcome instance protectionism, we need a new feed, in which an instance can find a good balance between showing content from other instances and its own.

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  • Blaze
    9·
    1 year ago

    In my personal opinion, it works okay as it is now.

    If I want to browse my small instance content, I use their local feed.

    If I want to browse content from another small instance, I just subscribe to their communities.

    Discovery is done through lemmyverse.net, !trendingcommunities@endlesstalk.org , talking to people, etc.

    • blue_berry@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      That’s fine. I also think it works okay at the moment, but I’m a critical person and I think this could become a problem in the future, so I think about how it could be solved.

      If I want to browse content from another small instance, I just subscribe to their communities.

      I’m just not sure the average user does that. Especially casual ones.

      Also I think the average user doesn’t want to use third-party websites to discover new content, especially on the phone. These services just appear to me to be workarounds.