Was just browsing my favorite communities, commenting on posts I found really interesting, and engaging with other users who wanted to have conversations.
… and not a single paid ad in my feed. I effing love this platform.
Was just browsing my favorite communities, commenting on posts I found really interesting, and engaging with other users who wanted to have conversations.
… and not a single paid ad in my feed. I effing love this platform.
That’s intentional, reddit has probably the worst sorting algorithm of all the link aggregators. It’s entirely time dependent. In practice, the first post / comment is nearly always the highest rated, regardless of it’s quality.
https://minimaxir.com/2016/11/first-comment/
TL:DR of the above article: if you’re not one of the first ten or so commenters in a reddit thread, don’t even bother.
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html
Ah, that’s why I see heavily downvoted posts near the top.
I wonder if it would make sense to randomly sort for the first couple hours, and then sort by that metric afterward. That would further limit the first mover advantage in more popular communities.
Regardless, lemmy’s sort seems to be fine with the scale it’s currently at.