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Lemmy's sorting options are so much better than Reddit's and allow long-term discussions (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Reddit made it impossible to have long-term discussions like forums do. Posts would just fade into irrelevance after a day or so, whereas with forums new comments would bump the thread.

Lemmy has a sorting option just like forums:

"New Comments: Bumps posts to the top when they receive a new reply analogous to the sorting of traditional forums"

And Lemmy also has the "Active" sorting method, which says:

"Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time"

so Active seems like a compromise between Hot like Reddit and the way forums do it by New Comments

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree. It's hard to tell, though, if it's because of the huge influx of new people arriving and interacting what what they are seeing in active, or if it's a flaw in the system. I've been here 2 days now and active hasn't changed almost at all, this morning I saw one new post near the top.

I think after a week or so it will probably stabilize and we'll start seeing more posts get higher up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's probably because the algorithm was tuned for a smaller community. As soon as posts got hundreds of comments it likely made things stay at the top for a very long time. Definitely something that will get tuned over time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yea also we might just not be used to the slower turnover of Active, compared to Reddit's Hot, I've also only been here for 2 days so idk, will definitely be interesting to see if Active gets tweaked or if Hot becomes the new default