I must be doing something wrong. I only see like the same 5 communities, and occasionally several copies of the same post. It’s harshing my mellow because i know there’s more content out there, i just can’t see it for some reason
Is there a community for users with strange names?
Is there a community exclusively for users with strange names? And if so, how is qualifying strangeness determined?
Are you sorting by All, Local, or Subscribed?
You would never see a half an hour old post on reddit hot sort. Look on local or subscribed, and if you want variety sort by new on all
Idk why people want to see half hour old posts. That just makes hot random, not interesting.
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 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)
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
It’s only like that because the community here is much smaller and overall post quality is higher on average.
I agree with you, but with time I expect the ‘hot’ algorithm to need many revisions. Don’t get too attached.
The size of the community isn’t the only problem though. The hot page is filled with very recent posts making I virtually random as to what posts you see there. It’s not about what post people are upvoting today, there is some aberration that brings up sub 100 vote posts to the top in their first hour over a 6 hour old post with 1000 votes. Active is also filled with days old posts making it useless for keeping up with current events too.
I really like the top post per 6/12 hours, that way you can really keep up with popular posts.
That’s crazy to me. I think the sorting algorithm here is pretty awful no matter what setting I have it in. Linuxmemes, lemmyshitpost, and 196 are always on top mixed in with yesterday’s news
Are you sorting by active instead of hot? I never see old things past several hours unless it’s ultra upvoted
I just sorted by hot and got posts I looked at yesterday
