Yes the front page sucks no matter what sorting option you use and it’s not because the posted content is shitty its just sucks in the way it presents it.
Basically, Hot and Active show posts based on upvotes minus down votes, with a time decay so older posts rank lower.
Hot has the time decay based on created time, so you’ll basically only see posts from the last day or so.
Active has the time decay based on the most recent comment, so if someone comments it can bring an old post back to the top.
There is also Scaled (if your instance has updated to 0.19), which is like Hot but posts from communities with less active users will get a boost so you don’t miss out on posts in small communities from being drowned out by big community posts with lists of upvotes.
To change the default for comment sorting, YES PLEASE.
I am having to click “Top” for every single post. It’s become a reflex but seriously this is crazy. It feels like I must be doing something wrong but I have looked everywhere for the setting and there isn’t one. I’ve assumed this is just an oversight that will soon be fixed, but it never is.
As in better sorting options?
Yes the front page sucks no matter what sorting option you use and it’s not because the posted content is shitty its just sucks in the way it presents it.
To be honest, I still don’t really know the difference between ‘hot’ and ‘active’
Wish those had more accurate descriptors.
It’s explained here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
Basically, Hot and Active show posts based on upvotes minus down votes, with a time decay so older posts rank lower.
Hot has the time decay based on created time, so you’ll basically only see posts from the last day or so.
Active has the time decay based on the most recent comment, so if someone comments it can bring an old post back to the top.
There is also Scaled (if your instance has updated to 0.19), which is like Hot but posts from communities with less active users will get a boost so you don’t miss out on posts in small communities from being drowned out by big community posts with lists of upvotes.
To change the default for comment sorting, YES PLEASE.
I am having to click “Top” for every single post. It’s become a reflex but seriously this is crazy. It feels like I must be doing something wrong but I have looked everywhere for the setting and there isn’t one. I’ve assumed this is just an oversight that will soon be fixed, but it never is.
I just don’t get it.
Are you using a specific lemmy app? I imagine that many apps have this
Using the app that is the vanilla website.