Hello all,
Wanted to open a discussion on Lemmy’s post sorting options right now. I don’t have any experience with implementing this type of thing but right now the algorithm appears… Off? For example, ‘Active’ gives me a lot of posts over a day old but ‘Hot’ may as well be ‘New’ i.e. more recent posts with little engagement.
I don’t know if it’s due to Lemmy still picking up steam or a fundamental flaw with the algorithm. Like I said, I’m really curious to hear the opinions of those more knowledgeable.
I always sort by “New Comments”. “Active” just gives me the same posts over and over again.
I think it’s because a few of the posts appear at the top for everyone, so people keep adding comments to those, which “bumps” them to the top of the feed like it used to work with forums back in their heyday 15-20 years ago.
And that made sense for Lemmy when it was a lot lower volume than it is now. But Lemmy has grown a bit in the last few days and there’s more content to deal with now.
This is actually a bug caused by instances not updating correctly after being up for a bit. It’ll be fixed soon. The admin of Lemm.ee has already implemented a fix themselves.