i saw those in the settings for post sorting, and was wondering what they even do lol

  • Hamartiogonic
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    “Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time

    Hot: Like active, but uses time when the post was published”

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      This is what I like about the fediverse. I asked a similar question on Reddit a long time ago. Got a snarky comment “it is what it sounds like” and nothing else.

      Thanks for answering.

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        Glad I could help. Not too long ago I was thinking about the same question myself, so looking up the answer a second time was fairly easy.

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    I also want to know. I notice “hot” seems almost completely useless right now. A lot of posts with hardly any upvotes or comments get counted as “hot”. Yet, I believe it’s the default sort, which is a shame.

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    This has almost nothing to do with the Connect app. It is the way Lemmy server calculates the sorting of posts for the feed

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    I’m not totally sure but I think active is based on the rate of comments and hot is based on the rate of upvotes + random sprinkling of years old stuff.