I do very few things explicitly, I just punish self-similarity in a very specific way. I guess posts with actual text in the body are just more unique, given all previous posts on the instance.

Maybe using the filtered posts as a base in combination with some client side keyword blocking will be useful? The keyword blocking would be much more individual for each user.

My mistake then. I have to give Voyager another try, I guess :)

Maybe I misremember but didn’t voyager have ads? That was a turn off for me.

Or maybe that was boost?

I would still argue that thunder is the best app for lemmy

https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder

From what I can tell, the larger instances have frontpages without much user duplication. They have a LOT more memes than I do tho :)

https://imgur.com/a/xbzMXmQ

Cool. Let me know what you think!

I’ll take a look at Superbowl@lemmy.world!

The political posts thing is interesting. So far, mainly news posts with text descriptions remain on the front page (which I personally prefer over the memes, but that’s just my preference). I am having a hard time deciding if I actually find them interesting though… ^^ I think I actually prefer it over my reddit homepage, there tends to be much of the same, usually.

For comparison, see: https://imgur.com/a/xbzMXmQ

I made no changes to the lemmy codebase, its all done through an auto-moderating bot that auto-removes posts that don’t meet the standard :)

Yeah, that’s one of the potential issues that I’m currently looking out for. So far the main thing I can tell is that memes get removed like crazy (https://lemmy.coffee/c/memes@lemmy.world?dataType=Post&sort=New) and the posts on the homepage are generally much less meme-intensive when compared to instances like lemmy.world or lemmy.ml.

That’s the idea, yes.

Do you plan to publish your algorithm/filter?

In an ideal world sure. But I’d have to think about that some more, because in principle I don’t want people to game it :)