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Hmm, so far I think I still liked Reddit's algorithm better. Somehow it always managed to combine top posts from huge communities (news, videos, etc) with small niche interest communities on the same timeline. Hot on Lemmy feels almost like a random selection of posts to me. What people post here is good, but the way it's selected and sorted doesn't feel quite as meaningful to me.
I think size of the community should be factored into the ranking, at least a little bit.
Same. I used reddit mostly for smaller communities and the hot algorithm doesn't seem to pick them up here. They're pretty inactive but they do have daily posts. If I don't go directly to that community though, I won't see them. I'm sure these things will be refined over-time.
That was what the popular page was supposed to do. In reality it just made more subs that I'm not interested in rise to the top instead of posts that a lot of people are interacting with. I don't really care about some random sports teams rare upset that day, or a nitch reality tv show episode that randomly popped into the feed. It's just not interesting.
I guess it would be best suited for the Subscribed filter because that would only be topics you're actually interested in.
I believe Reddit's "Best" sorting algorithm did this, but I'm not sure. Looking at it a 4 hour old post with 2 upvotes from a small community is ranked higher than a 3 hour old post with 889 upvotes from a large community.
Reddits hot page shows posts based now how many upvotes they've gotten against an exponentially increasing negative score based on the age of the post. This prevents day old posts from filling the hot page, forcing new topics to the top and generating new discussions. Here half my hot page is under an hour old, on Reddit most of the hot page is 6 hours or more, sometimes less in my sub feed if it's a slow day. I can't figure out what's wrong with the hot page here, but it feels awful to use any of the filters. I've been resorting to constantly flipping through the various filters hoping something feels as fresh as reddits hot page, but I haven't figured out if any of them work for that yet.
Try the Top Six Hours filter
Okay, but why aren't those posts showing up in hot as opposed to the 20 minutes old posts with 20 upvotes? Now I can only see what is relevant from the last 6 hours when the hot page should be organized so I can see the relevant news for today at almost any point. Instead it's half filled with minutes old memes. The hot algorithm needs a lot of work.
I agree with this. Reddits best sort or even hot somehow seemed or felt better with what was shown to you.
Although Lemmy ain’t bad and I’m sure it’ll better in time (even if it stays the same still beats reddits bs now)