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I live in the EU area; why is the 'Evanston, IL' community ~half of my feed at LOCAL/Active? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sorry if this is not the right community for the question - this was the first one that came to my mind. I'm just wondering if I'm misinterpreting the meaning of the word 'local' in this context; or this is somehow pretty normal and due to the algorithm (in which case I'd like to know this algorithm a little more); or maybe because it's a bug.

UPDATE: I just reloaded the site, thinking I might have just pressed 'next' one too many times, making the algorithm run out of ideas. At the moment I don't see any more Evanston content, however, this has happened several times before, this is why I decided to write here, because it was the 4th/5th time already.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Local is not geographically local. It means all communities on the lemmy.world instance. What you can do is block the Evanston community, or, subscribe to the communities you care about then browse by Subscribed instead of Local. Unfortunately some communities dump tens of posts at once and end up looking spammy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the clarification. So it's probably the first point.

I know about blocking communities, and probably will do - I just feel that blocking a community is a bit overkill, especially if otherwise I don't mind seeing posts from them, just not that many. Also, if I want Lemmy to grow, prematurely blocking communities before things could get traction seems somewhat conterintuitive to me. I also use the Subscribed feature when I get bored of random/spammy content, but my curse is that I'm interested in niche, slow communities, so I can choose between these two.

It's alright, the rest of my problem is not relevant here anyway, and you answered my question, so thanks a lot!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I wish lemmy had a hide community option, one that could be used so you do not see the posts in your feed, but could visit the community and see what is there.