oh no my echo chamber of funny comics and cat pictures aaa oh nooooo

Echo Chambers are great. You just think they're horrible because you're in an echo chamber that says they're horrible.

Sorting by ‘active’ takes into account the time of the last comment, and/or the number of comments. And it's the default sorting option in the default UI and apps that I've seen.

We all think we're not that guy. Especially that guy.

Not gonna lie, I see people doing this theatrical shit in the 2020's and I instantly hate them for killing any good vibes that were happening. They no longer represent their politics to me.

Yeah.

There are vulnerable people that might fall for their bullshit, so at least we must deny their nonsense so that fewer people fall for it.

Pretty sure reddit uses some algorithmic stuff to push threads, no? If you jump all over a bullshit political post, for example, doesn't that help push it into 'hot' or whatever? (Honestly asking, been off reddit for years at this point).

Lemmy/piefed/etc might be less prone to it though, that's fair, though I've so far run into less outright propagandistic stuff here so far... might've just been lucky on that front.