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Is lemmy working on better default sort options than “hot” and “active”? (self.general)

submitted 1 year ago by danc4498 to c/general

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I’m not really sure where to ask this question. Maybe there’s a lemmy dev community where these kind of discussions already happen.

I feel like the default front page in Lemmy is still severely lacking when compared to Reddit’s r/all algorithm. I find hot and top hourly to be nearly identical. The top 6 hour is closer, but still not as good as what the Reddit default front page is.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've switched from All to Subscriptions only, and I'm getting some really wonky Hot posts. The first ~20 posts are fine, but after that, it starts serving me reeeally old content. (Reproduced in multple apps, so it's not just Memmy).

https://imgur.com/a/xfi0xsY

[–] BitingChaos 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I had stuff in my feed jump from a few hours old to then showing things that haven't had a comment in TWO YEARS back to showing content from a few days ago.

There has to be a bug somewhere in Lemmy's API in regards to what posts are returned.

Edit: I just checked your screenshot. You're showing the same kind of thing I see.

[–] Carnelian 2 points 1 year ago

Happening for me too, and I know many others, as sometimes the old posts will have new comments lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This. That’s definitely a bug. It wasn’t always happening and seems somewhat recent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Even on All I'm seeing the same thing with Hot.