Lemmy.world finally updated to v19 and I see that I have the option to do scaled sort. Typically I sort by “Top 6 hour”, “Top 12 hours”, and then “Active”.
None of these options are really like the old “Hot” sort on Reddit. So how does the scaled sort work? Is anyone who has been on v19 a while using it much?
I believe it’s to help raise up tiny communities. So a community with ten members that has a new post with one upvote should be scaled to the same as a huge community with a post with hundreds of upvotes.
This is to combat a few huge communities dominating the front page, when some smaller communities may be trying to take off.
That makes a lot of sense, especially for sorting the all and local feeds. Sounds like that’s probably a good method of sorting things. Although that begs the question, what does the Lemmy “hot” sort do then…
I know that I could easily google the answer but I wanted to give this community so more traffic. From join-lemmy,
There is a new scaled sort which takes into account the number of active users in a community, and boosts posts from less-active communities to the top. Additionally there is a new controversial sort which brings posts and comments to the top that have similar amounts of upvotes and downvotes. Lemmy’s sorts are detailed here.
So it sounds like it is more like the rising sort on Reddit?
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