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How does Lemmy's front page work? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What's the difference between active and hot and how does sorting work in general? I sorted by active and all instances and my page reloads and the entire thing is three month old posts from lemmygrad. How exactly does this whole thing work?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

From what I can gather, "hot" is somewhat recent posts that are being upvoted, and "active" are posts, regardless of age, which are currently generating a lot of interaction, whether upvotes or comments.

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

But none of these random lemmygrad posts had comments or upvotes?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I can't really help you there, my instance blocked lemmygrad so I don't see any of their content anyway.