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TheFriendlyDickhead ,

I actually enjoy that the algorithm is not that good. I hate it that every site nowadays just throws everything they think you want at you. It’s so refreshing to just see what people are posting without that complex stuff going on in the back.

nothacking ,

The lemmt documentation nicely explains a the options:

join-lemmy.org/docs/…/07-ranking-algo.html

Kissaki ,
  • Lemmy uses the same Rank algorithm above, in two sorts: Active, and Hot.
    • Active uses the post votes, and latest comment time (limited to two days).
    • Hot uses the post votes, and the post published time.
favrion ,
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If Lemmy is turned on by it.

Kissaki ,

I got burned by it.

IonAddis , (edited )
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I went into my preferences to change it to Top 6 Hours.

So far, after the change, I’m getting an experience closer to the old reddit (before they messed with the sorting to keep actually interesting things from getting to the top too quickly.)

This also is exposing me to smaller but not dead communities I can subscribe to.

Edit: Although, I suspect there might be a bug with Top 6 Hours in that it tries to do that too when I go to my own profile to see my recent comments. I don’t suppose anyone knows where I’d look to see if there’s an existing bug report for that? I’d expect, when looking at my own comments, to see ALL of them without the sorting applying to that page. Instead, that page works funky until I set my preferences back to Hot or Top or whatever.

scutiger ,

If you set your default sorting method in your settings, it applies it to all pages by default. So your subscribed will also be sorted that way when you might prefer that be sorted by new or active. Then you need to manually choose to sort it differently each time you change between subscribed/local/all.

IonAddis ,
@IonAddis@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, it makes sense for those pages. I just wasn’t expecting it to apply to my own comments when I go to my profile page as those pages on most sites exist outside of the forum sorting preferences.

Chickenstalker ,

Cultured gentlemen of honour sort by new.

misterundercoat ,

Top SixHour gang

Pog ,

I love sorting by new, its chock full of interesting (and shit) content that you’ll never know what to expect lmao

zkfcfbzr ,

Sorting by hot and All, my front page looks like this right now - guess the bugged algorithm really likes that community for some reason.

Hiccup ,

Mine keeps pushing the firefox community to the top for some reason.

Saneless ,

Same for me

Brkdncr ,

As far as I can tell, when I sort by hot it overheats the CPU of the instance server.

Neirin_D ,

For me, the first page is showing new stuff but the second page sometimes shows posts from weeks ago or even 2 years ago.

Edit: hot is completely broken when I browse subscribed posts.

Quill0 ,
@Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net avatar

Sort by new and be the change you want to see

eporetsky ,

Funny that the first post I saw when sorting by Hot is a post asking what hot sorting is

all-knight-party ,
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That's the secret. It sorts all threads so that the ones about hot things are first.

Wander ,
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That’s just a bug. It gets better with newer versions of Lemmy.

trambe ,
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From what I understand, hot is supposed to be like Reddit where they show up posts that are gaining traction in the day.

But yeah it’s pretty buggy right now, been seeing a lot of old posts too

SamC ,

There is a bug with hot sorting at the moment: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3428

If you want to know how it’s supposed to work, see: join-lemmy.org/docs/…/07-ranking-algo.html

TheGoldenGod ,
@TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world avatar

The answers always in the GitHub lol, but I haven’t been here long and I was sure something was off with the sorting but assumed it was due to server issues or low on the fix list.

Sev ,
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I like to use Hot for up and coming kinda posts, or finding random communities. When I get bored of that, I normally do one of the Top ones (Day, 3, 6 hours etc).

HorseFD ,

For a big instance, Hot sorting seems to work pretty well. Otherwise Top Day is probably a better choice.

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