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Programming.dev will hide political NSFW/pornographic and bot communities. Hidden communities can still be accessed, but don't show up on All unless you subscribe to them. (legal.programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Kind of answers the suggestion I had a while ago ( https://lemmyverse.link/lemm.ee/post/52588852 ) to have instances that would hide political communities from the All feed to be more welcoming to new joiners.

If a generalist instance implemented a similar hide list, it could become the one recommendation for new joiners, at it would avoid overwhelming them with politics.

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am against your proposal.

Because it would effectively amount to a (simple, rudimentary) recommendation algorithm. We should not have such a thing by default. Rather, the user has to explicitely agree to getting "clever" recommendations. Otherwise, we end up in the same mess as Twitter, Facebook, ... getting claims that we have a "biased" algorithm.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

uhm, there is no algorithm. just choice to subscribe a bunch at once. i don't even know all meme communities, so how can i subscribe all of them? there is no way at the moment. even if someone knew all and subscribed to them, chances are, if a new one gets created, they will never see it, because they are just getting their subscribed memes.