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In Mastodon, when you search a Hashtag, How do you sort by most retoots? (lemmy.ml)

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I cannot figure it out. I search for anything, and it always show you the most recent comment that includes that what you are searching. That is useful for recent or ongoing events. But if I want to see the Top of the day, or most Rotoots or something like that, to see the best comments or the best explanations/summary for something, How is that done?

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[–] lazyvar 1 points 1 year ago

There is no native way to do this AFAIK.

Perhaps some third party apps offer a sort function?

But I doubt many, if any, offer the function because of how they receive posts in chunks, most recent first.

So they’d have to pull all posts with that tag first instead of just showing you the most recent ones and ask for more as you scroll down, and then they have to check each post’s boost count and place them in order.