i saw those in the settings for post sorting, and was wondering what they even do lol
“Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time
Hot: Like active, but uses time when the post was published”
This is what I like about the fediverse. I asked a similar question on Reddit a long time ago. Got a snarky comment “it is what it sounds like” and nothing else.
Thanks for answering.
Glad I could help. Not too long ago I was thinking about the same question myself, so looking up the answer a second time was fairly easy.
Will hot be improved in the future? It keep showing new dead posts on my end.
there was a bug in hot that showed years old posts. should be fixed in the latest versions.
Yes, but it still show too many posts that are too new to have more than 0-1 comments on my end, even on the Everything page.
I also want to know. I notice “hot” seems almost completely useless right now. A lot of posts with hardly any upvotes or comments get counted as “hot”. Yet, I believe it’s the default sort, which is a shame.
This has almost nothing to do with the Connect app. It is the way Lemmy server calculates the sorting of posts for the feed
Eh, it’s still good to know.
I’m not totally sure but I think active is based on the rate of comments and hot is based on the rate of upvotes + random sprinkling of years old stuff.
Which one is better to find new communities?
You can also go to
About InstanceandView Communitiesto see a list of communitiesfor finding communities, you might want to try this
