• Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
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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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      11 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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          10 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].

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            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 […]

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              9 days ago

              Right so they both use time and they both use activity, but in my experience Hot prioritizes newness more while the top posts in Active tend to be slightly older, having had more time to make the rounds to where more people know about it, and then the activity comes from new people seeing it but also from notifications among people that already saw it - e.g. on this OP where we are doing that now.:-)