danc4498Jul 17, 2023

Is lemmy working on better default sort options than “hot” and “active”?

https://lemmy.world/post/1630855

Is lemmy working on better default sort options than “hot” and “active”? - Lemmy.world

I’m not really sure where to ask this question. Maybe there’s a lemmy dev community where these kind of discussions already happen. I feel like the default front page in Lemmy is still severely lacking when compared to Reddit’s r/all algorithm. I find hot and top hourly to be nearly identical. The top 6 hour is closer, but still not as good as what the Reddit default front page is.

Show threadAVeryCleverNameJul 17, 2023
I sort by new. It seems to work. There’s a severe lack of comments, which I am trying to do my part to rectify.
Show threaddeweydecibelJul 17, 2023

Yeah that’s something I’m noticing a lot too. It feels like, at the moment, a lot of the communities are communities in name only. People upvote posts when they see them but there’s not much discussion happening.

Which is something that will improve with time, obviously.

Show threadimaqtpieJul 17, 2023
One thing that I try to do is find other comments and respond to them. A lot of times it’s easier to respond to another comment than to make a top level comment in the post, imo. And it opens up the door to a discussion, which is the while purpose of this platform
Show threadSerinus
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Jul 17, 2023 at 4:59pmWeb
Show threadimaqtpieJul 17, 2023

Hmmm I’ve been on [email protected]

The lemmy.world community has a few hundred more subscribers but slightly less activity. I’ll come join you on [email protected]

Show threadSerinusJul 17, 2023
I’ll go sub over there too. I just want a community that’s not on Reddit.