I made a Lemmy instance with a custom algorithm that keeps only the top 20% most unique (=interesting?) posts. It does this by calculating a similarity score between every post on my instance and all posts that came before it. The top 80% of posts with the highest self-similarity get removed instantly.
The idea would be that this allows me to cut through the noise that's running through the communities, similar to how xkcd-signal attempted to do 20 years ago.
The instance is mostly meant for reading, not posting. So it has a very open federation policy (for now).
If anything, this is experimental. So please let me know what you think! You can see the type of stuff that gets removed in the modlog (https://lemmy.coffee/modlog).
I added the larger communities before starting to remove posts, so there may be historical posts still hanging around. Maybe everything from BuyFromEU was deleted?
You can see the kind of stuff that stays best via homepage ALL > Top last N hours
Like this, for example: https://lemmy.coffee/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=TopSixHour
Seems like !buyeuropean@feddit.uk votes and comments aren't federated to your instance: https://lemmy.coffee/c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
They are now :)
If the posts in https://lemmy.coffee/c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk are more interesting than in https://feddit.uk/c/buyeuropean, I am having a hard time deciding that lol
Thanks!