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

submitted 10 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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That sounds really smart.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

It is, and it's my default sort option. I find it gives a pretty good feed of things I follow and things I might want to check out.

[–] TORFdot0 6 points 10 months ago

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…