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did the algorithm get better or did lemmy just get more populated? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seems like the feeds are more active and I'm not hitting things with 3 upvotes 20 minutes into my scroll. Did Connect change something, did Lemmy or are we just seeing some population increase from Boost?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's also sort by Top (with various time filters), Hot, Active, and Most/New Comments, all of which are very much algorithms. What it doesn't have is sorting based on user activity, which also isn't what's coming in 0.19. What's being added is basically the same as 'Hot', but takes into consideration the activity on the sub, so as to let smaller subs in a user's feed not be drowned out by more active subs.

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

Is that not what "active" means?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Active sorting orders posts by most recent comment, with a preference for newer and higher voted posts.

It's explained a bit in the documentation:

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I think active is global activity rather than relative activity.