Not sure if this fits here, feel free to remove if not.
I’m sure the algorithm must be working as intended, but I always see a lot of rapid-fire posts under each other when browsing “Hot”. Is this normal or am I missing a setting?
i think thats just the side effect of lemmy having not that many users.
Yeah, like certain communities have more eyes on them (so more upvotes) and they automatically dominate the feed, even with a flurry of fresh posts.
The bummer is that once the user numbers get to that sweet spot they’ll blow past it so fuckin’ fast and then shit gets dumb QUICK.
As well as not being designed to keep you scrolling
Yeah. I don’t like hot, because it’s only posts from an hour or two ago. Active is generally better in that sense.
Use Scaled, it’s awesome. Much better visibility on small communities, so less dominated with samey news.
I find scaled all gives me a bunch of single upvote posts from communities with <20 subscribers. They really should have implemented a minimum community size filter
Oh, I mostly use it with subscribed, not all, perhaps that’s the difference?
Yeah, scaled subscribed works since you’re sorting a curated bunch of comms. Scaled all is just pointless.
What exactly does “scaled” mean?
It’s a post sorting option on your instance home page. I basically sorts by recent activity, but normalised by community size, so if something gets 10 upvotes on a community with 100 users it will be pushed much higher than a post with 10 upvotes from a community with 2k users
Ah right, that makes sense, thanks!
I have tried a lot of the different options and never felt any of them had a lot of value other than New. I don’t wanna see the same stuff over and over again so I’m the guy trolling all new posts looking for interesting stuff.
I think a lot of us, when we were be where, set our clients to “New, 6 hours” and forgot it.
It makes sense that Hot would reflect that, since that might be how a large portion of the user base is finding content to interact with.
Makes sense to me!
What, you don’t like trenchcoats?
It’s too mysterious, I can’t handle it
Love this for me to have amber heard
I like what is under them
Holy doomscroll
I am still having a hard time picking my default feed. Should it be active or hot? Should I remove read posts or keep them? If anyone has suggestions I would love to hear
Imo active is boring, you get threads of 2-3 days ago where people are posting comments in. I like things to be actual
They are “actual” though, if you care about comments :)
for now, removing read posts will empty your feed quickly. Active is good for a bit, but it becomes repetitive quickly. Hot is good for when this happens.
I go by susbribed top last 24 hours, which gives me a decent scroll experience.
No, it’s like three "New"s all stood on top of each other, in a trenchcoat.
