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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Which doesn't make sense on Lemmy because it's not algorithm based. But is probably a muscle memory reaction from using Reddit or similar.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Lemmy has algorithms, it's just that they aren't designed to maximise profit.

If you have the sort type set to Hot, posts are ranked based on score (upvotes minus down votes) with a decay based on post time. Active is the same but based on the last comment time.

If you are on the website, there is a ? next to the sort option that will take you to a page explaining how the different options work.

But long story short, most sorting options are affected by down votes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

I would say the distinction is that lemmy doesn't have a personalized algorithm.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

That's fair. I didn't know all that.