Harmful misconception I noticed in these comments. Lemmy’s Hot leans way closer to New than Reddit does, and it makes it look like we have low activity (low comments and upvotes)
Reddit Hot All: posts are about 2 to 8 hours old
lemmy.world Hot All: posts are about 4 minutes to 1 hour old
Maybe “Active” should be made the default for new accounts?
Although we have only <40k active users total (stats). I used to mod a “tiny” gaming sub on Reddit that claimed to have hundreds of thousands of subscribers. There is no avoiding the absolute fact that we are tiny here, by comparison to the bad place!:-)
Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, given the makeup of those that stayed behind.
The default sorting method is chosen by the instance admins actually (and then a user could change theirs once they sign up).
But maybe the bigger problem is just that people are used to the name “Hot” and how it functions on Reddit. I don’t think we should match Reddit’s algorithm exactly, but as it is it looks kinda barren and not very “hot”.
Harmful misconception I noticed in these comments. Lemmy’s Hot leans way closer to New than Reddit does, and it makes it look like we have low activity (low comments and upvotes)
Reddit Hot All: posts are about 2 to 8 hours old
lemmy.world Hot All: posts are about 4 minutes to 1 hour old
Maybe we should revive this issue? https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4471
Different from Reddit is fine, but this is a HUGE difference that probably throws off a lot of people
Maybe “Active” should be made the default for new accounts?
Although we have only <40k active users total (stats). I used to mod a “tiny” gaming sub on Reddit that claimed to have hundreds of thousands of subscribers. There is no avoiding the absolute fact that we are tiny here, by comparison to the bad place!:-)
Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, given the makeup of those that stayed behind.
The default sorting method is chosen by the instance admins actually (and then a user could change theirs once they sign up).
But maybe the bigger problem is just that people are used to the name “Hot” and how it functions on Reddit. I don’t think we should match Reddit’s algorithm exactly, but as it is it looks kinda barren and not very “hot”.