This would push users toward local posts (especially on smaller instances) while still supporting a better distribution of user engagement over the threadiverse. And if you don’t trust that it was implemented correctly – you can simply check it by counting the amounts of posts against your chosen probabilities.

Edit: changed feed name to mixed-feed

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[–] starman@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think that Explore is very confusing name for feed type. IMO there are 2 better ways to do this:

checkbox called "discover new posts" or something similar. It would randomly throw posts from All to Subscribed
"Mixed" feed type with a slider that allows users to set how many posts from All and how many from subscribed will show up in Mixed. It can look like this:

All (20%) ==( )======== Subscribed (80%)

[–] blue_berry@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just called it Explore because its called that in Mastodon. Mixed is also fine.

To include Local, you could also make a slider with two slide-poitns:

Local All Subscribed

==()===========()==

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The slider is a really cool idea, is that something they could actually build?

[–] starman@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I can't find a reason why it would be not possible