Right now I have my feed sorted by Hot. The sixth post in my feed is 19 days old, has zero comments, and one upvote. I’m struggling to work out what algorithm is deciding this is a Hot post

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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.

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The lemmt documentation nicely explains a the options:

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html

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  • 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.
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If Lemmy is turned on by it.

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I got burned by it.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Cultured gentlemen of honour sort by new.

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

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Top SixHour gang

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