Is it me, or is it rather slow? If I sort by active I get content that is 1-2 days old. If I sort by hot most stuff are 17-20h old.
There is interesting content on here, it’s just hard to find. And you end up having to sort by new, which is totally different experience!
Other than that I really feel like Lemmy could become something awesome.
I don’t know which sorting algorithms are affected by this same issue, but there is a known issue for the hot sorting: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076
That’s how “active” works afaik. “Active” looks at latest comment, so if it’s an old post, it will still go to the top because there are recent comments.
You can read more about it here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
I feel like Hot should have been the default. Active being dependent on comment activity isn’t a great way to see newer posts.
Interesting! Thank you. Seems great if you’re into comments, but not as great for getting new content I guess.
Then you should use “Hot”: Like active, but uses time when the post was published
So I noticed the same thing, what I do is sort by all and new and you will constantly get new stuff in the feed. Plus you can upvote and comment to help the other algorithms!