• OpenStars@piefed.social
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      11 days ago

      Yeah it looks fixed now. I went to !cats@lemmy.world and counted 10 posts from the last 3 hours, then viewed the community from SJW and it too has 10 posts from the last 3 hours.

      So… are you enjoying the cats flooding your feed now?:-D Or if you aren’t seeing them, it must be for some other reason now.

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        11 days ago

        So… are you enjoying the cats flooding your feed now?:-D Or if you aren’t seeing them, it must be for some other reason now.

        I’m not sure. Maybe the volume of cats has just been exaggerated? Sorting all+active only shows 1 cat in the first 80 posts that I looked at.

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          11 days ago

          Ah that seems to explain it. Active prioritizes many comments iirc, but on most of these posts I see few if any comments. Using Hot though, they can dominate a feed due to being highly upvoted.

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            11 days ago

            Ah, yeah that seems to be it. I switched to all+hot and I’m now seeing a lot of cats. I wonder what other content I’m missing out on by sorting by “active”? When I sort by “all”, I’m trying to get the posts that are trending the most on Lemmy. Maybe active isn’t the best way to do this? Interestingly, the posts that I see when I sort by “hot” don’t have as many upvotes as those when I sort by “active” so idk.

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              10 days ago

              Hot also shows newer content, as these cat posts tend to be, while Active will allow older content that is still being discussed. You should notice a lot more turnover of your feed with Hot than with Active. You can change your default sort in your Settings so you don’t have to keep switching it every time.

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                10 days ago

                Yeah, I have my default sort set to “Subscribed” + “Scaled” (I want to primarily see the stuff that I follow, and I don’t want the small communities to be drowned out by the large ones). When I want to see what’s trending (big topics that are being talked about a lot) right now, I’ll switch to “All” + “Active”. It seems like “Hot” favors boosting trending groups rather than trending single posts.

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                  9 days ago

                  Yeah I believe that is the purpose of Hot to begin with, though it’s so great that we have so many choices to pick from:-).

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                    9 days ago

                    From what I can see, “Hot” seems like a boosted “New” — it favors new posts, and ranks them by activity [1.1], whereas, from what I understand, “Active”, is more like the classic forum format where a comment bumps it back up to the top, but ranked also based on score [1.2].

                    References
                    1. “Votes and Ranking” (§“Sorting Posts”. §“Posts”). Lemmy Documentation. Accessed: 2024-11-25T01:36Z. https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html.
                      1. […] Hot: Like active, but uses time when the post was published […]

                      2. […] Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time […]