Was just browsing my favorite communities, commenting on posts I found really interesting, and engaging with other users who wanted to have conversations.
… and not a single paid ad in my feed. I effing love this platform.
Was just browsing my favorite communities, commenting on posts I found really interesting, and engaging with other users who wanted to have conversations.
… and not a single paid ad in my feed. I effing love this platform.
I think it goes too far the other way. I see a lot of comments with the default votes at the top, which are frequently less insightful than the highly upvoted comments below it.
It’s completely fine for the scale lemmy is currently at, but I think it would be problematic with anything approaching Reddit scale.
Edit: fix typo: cord -> votes
That’s intentional, reddit has probably the worst sorting algorithm of all the link aggregators. It’s entirely time dependent. In practice, the first post / comment is nearly always the highest rated, regardless of it’s quality.
https://minimaxir.com/2016/11/first-comment/
TL:DR of the above article: if you’re not one of the first ten or so commenters in a reddit thread, don’t even bother.
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html
Ah, that’s why I see heavily downvoted posts near the top.
I wonder if it would make sense to randomly sort for the first couple hours, and then sort by that metric afterward. That would further limit the first mover advantage in more popular communities.
Regardless, lemmy’s sort seems to be fine with the scale it’s currently at.
Default cord?
And I agree it may not scale properly however we’re still far away from that and I think it’s beneficial for growth now.
Default votes. As in, new posts float to the top, even if they don’t have any actual votes.
It’s good enough, I don’t think we’re at the point where it’s “better than Reddit” because they operate at very different scales.