There are several other options for sorting comments, you don't have to keep it chronological...
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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Ah, thanks. I think I'm gonna stick with chronological. Feels good.
Your case almost reads like satire. So extreme. Another reason to not miss reddit and its excessive gamification among with other terrible features. You make redditors look like zombies. No offense.
None taken, I didn't start out that way on there, and at the time I didn't have the self awareness as to how compulsive it was.
I used to laugh at others when they moaned about their fake internet points, the irony!
How are you viewing? On Lemmy in the instance Iβm in I can sort comments by hot, top, new and old on the web and I can sort by top, new and active via Mlem (iOS beta app).
I always sorted by new on my favorites. Waiting for a sort by new for comments here soon hopefully.
You already can sort by new comments though? At least I can in jerboa
wihtin a thread? i can't seem to find how to do that.... seems i missed it on the website (thanks), but where is it on Jerboa...?
Well now I'm not sure if I saw it or if I'm gaslighting myself or something, I swear I was doing this earlier.
Looks like there's a new option on the website settings - sort type = new comments but doesn't seem to carry over to Jerboa...oh well, little improvements here hey
I'm not from reddit but I have thoughts nonetheless.
if you get attention to your thread via some βeasyβ method like having the most recent reply, this attracts stealth abuse. troublemakers can try to use plausible replies to push up what they want to fill the top, and push down everything else. i want to emphasize that you cannot really notice or be sure when this goes on.
therefore, it's important that popular clients don't make anything like that the default. upvotes is much harder to game. recent post (but not replies) is okay because people making too many dumb posts is obvious and they can be blocked (etc.). most replies is fine since it takes lots of different people. even some combination (weighted upvotes, weighted downvotes, weighted total replies) could be nice.
instances could take how their βfront pageβ / default sort works very seriously because it ends up shaping what users see and interact with the most.