For those who have tried MBin, is it a good Lemmy alternative? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I heard about the whole AI moderation thing and I'm trying to move to a new fedispace.

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[-] Blackout@fedia.io 18 points 1 day ago

I'll give you my number one reason for why I stuck with kbin and mbin since the beginning. They have the best hot sort. It emulates Reddit much better than the other ways of sorting. I have fedia set up with pages, no unlimited doomscrolling, and large thumbnails so I can quickly peruse anime porn.

[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

People don't talk about this enough, Lemmy's "Hot" sort is kinda garbage lol. It leans too heavily towards new posts. Same thing with sorting comments by Hot. "Active" is more in-line with what Reddit users expect, or something like Top 6 Hours. I haven't tested Mbin's "Hot" much.

I remember a user on Reddit saying that Lemmy is dead because they looked at All+Hot and saw very few comments. On Lemmy right now I go to All+Hot and the front page posts mostly have 0 to 3 comments. All+Active is showing mostly posts with 50 to 200 comments. All+Top 6 Hours mostly has 5 to ~30 comments.

[-] nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 hours ago

Do you think it would make sense renaming Active to Hot and vice versa?

[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 10 hours ago

I think maybe it would be better to just tweak the Hot algorithm slightly. Maybe either adjust the curve, or use max(age, 1 hour) in the calculation so that new content is not favored quite as hard, aka new content is scored as if it were an hour old.

But you could make a dedicated discussion post asking about this, so more people can see