This is probably an ELI5 question, but can someone explain to me the diffence between the available sort orders for Posts and comments - Active/Hot/New ?
Okay I believe I know what “New” is lol, but how about “Active” and “Hot” ? More comments? More upvotes?
I saw such sorting options in Reddit also - but never cared much (neither I care about Reddit anymore so F U spez)
Active sorts by the number of recent comments. Hot uses an algorithm to sort post based on their age and score (which is upvotes minus downvotes as you would expect).
This wasn’t in the question, but some people might also want to know the difference between “all”, “local”, and your subscribed communities. Subscribed communities has an obvious meaning. “All” means “all posts in any community across all Lemmy instances”. “Local” means “all posts in any community on your instance only”.
The equivalent to Reddit’s r/all is c/all. I recommend sorting by Hot because sorting by Active tends to give stale posts that people are just happening to hold conversations in somewhere deep in the comments.