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Does lemmy have some sort of time-elapsed-since-post increasing, front-page-relevancy decreasing attribute? (self.main)

submitted 2 years ago by Varyk to c/main

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Whenever I visit lemmy, many of the posts are days old. Is that a lack of content being created by me and the other users, or... What? Thanks for any insight

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sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] WillOfTheWest 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The site defaults to sorting by active posts. There are options for hot, new, and top over the past day. I tend to sort by new.

[–] Varyk 7 points 2 years ago

I didn't see the other options, thanks. Now I'm on it!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I sort by new.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

The algo that runs the frontpage is made for a much smaller community. The Lemmy-project is run by good coders without much foresight.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Have you tried sorting by hot?

[–] mershed_perderders 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hot is somewhat stale at the moment. This is apparently due to the spike in users voting and the subsequent decrease in active users. So posts that garnered a high number of votes are pushing down other, newer posts making those older top posts somewhat sticky.

The recommended trick is to, for now, sort by "New" or "Top Day." Your mileage may vary, obv.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

This what I found to be true as well. Sort by New is a more vibrant experience than sorting by Hot.

[–] Varyk 5 points 2 years ago

Hahaha, welp! Thank you, that seems have been my issue.