this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
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What's liked by the general population is a good metric for providing general stuff to the general population and that's what we're talking about in All.
That average can however deviate a lot from the sweet spot for some people, quite possibly a large minority (even the majority depending on how concentrated or not people's tastes are around it).
Something that looks at your previous choices (or even generally stated choices in the form of communities you subscribe to or block) similarly to what some search engines and some social media sites will do, can shift that toward more your own specific tastes, but that's computationally more expensive and requires more users and more user data to get better results (basically it's finding certain kinds of users and local minima which are more satisfactory to them).
I suspect something like an AI solution (not LLM, just a much simpler neural network) running on your own device that tries to predict what you're going to click on and learns with what you do (or not) is the only way for a personalized "no fluff on my feed" solution, but that's for apps running on top of Lemmy, not the Lemmy engine.