Custom Listings and a Proximity Metric

Now hear me out: I think we need a more attractive content recommendation system. I don't mean "intransparent way to manipulate your opinion", but ways to discover content you like.

I recommend: Add a custom listing, in other words modify this box:

to include an extra category "recommended" or something like that.

When you click on it, it displays you content not only from the local instance, but other from other instances and communities that you're not yet subscribed to, but are somehow similar to what you're already subscribed to. There should be a way to figure out which communities are "similar", somehow I'm willing to provide further details about this once i thought about it in more detail. An example is: Every community can have links to other communities in its sidebar, and those are considered "similar" then. So if you're already subscribed to a community A, and A links in its sidebar to B, then B can be "recommended" to you. I'd be glad to provide further details if questions remain. I'm good with maths so i could write a few formulas on how to do the exact calculation or sth. It should all be open-source, of course.

Thanks for considering it! The lemmy software already works great (big thanks to the lemmy developers) and this would be an improvement IMHO.