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What's the deal with "Scaled" sorting? (self.outoftheloop)

submitted 8 months ago by TORFdot0 to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] TORFdot0 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I would say Lemmy's "Hot" sort is closest to Reddit's "Rising".

"Active" seems like Reddit's "Hot" equivalent but a little lamer because it brings forward days-old posts too...