Only seen it the past hour or so but I’ve already set it as my default. It seems to work exactly as I’d hoped where smaller but no less interesting communities get their posts higher in my feed.
This could be a huge change and I think lemmy would benefit from those of us caring about the idea being vocal about it and assessing its efficacy.
Yea I wouldn’t want to use it outside of the subscribed section, as generally the only small communities I’m interested in are the ones I’ve sought out.
That being said, it wouldn’t surprise me if the scoring for “Scaled” maybe mishandles posts at the edge of “small” where a post has one upvote. As each post starts with a single upvote, they’re not necessarily particularly useful?
yeah, when a post has 1 upvote on a community with 3 users the algorithm will prioritize it over 1 upvote with 40000 users.
I don’t know, I think this can be refined if the user is not on the subscribed section.