Seems like the feeds are more active and I’m not hitting things with 3 upvotes 20 minutes into my scroll. Did Connect change something, did Lemmy or are we just seeing some population increase from Boost?
Seems like the feeds are more active and I’m not hitting things with 3 upvotes 20 minutes into my scroll. Did Connect change something, did Lemmy or are we just seeing some population increase from Boost?
There’s no algorithm to speak of in Lemmy. It’s just all sorted by date and shown to you (which, technically speaking, is also an algorithm). In the next version (0.19) there will be, though.
Hot, Active and Top are algorithms.
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I prefer that to something like Facebook or Twitter which tries to guess what you personally want to see.
Oh most definitely, fuck all that black-box algorithm nonsense. “we know what you want, and you will like it!”
It always seemed very self-reinforcing and circular to me, like “we showed you a dog and a cat, you clicked on a dog, so now we show you 8 dogs and 2 cats, and you mainly click on dogs! All dogs from here!”
It’s straight up dangerous. It leads people into echo chambers and they feel like they found that content with their own free will. Antivax people during covid and extreme “conservatives” are prime examples
I prefer the Hot, Active, and Topless ones myself
It’s also not what lay-people mean when they say “algorithm” in context of social media, which you can easily infer from the OP’s question. That’s why I replied as such and specified that even sorting by date is indeed an algorithm.
I’m replying to the question being asked, you’re replying with “akchually”.
A post sorting algorithm doesn’t have to be personalized. When OP asks “has the algorithm changed” it could certainly mean Hot or Active sorting.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to try to redefine what “algorithm” means in the context of social media. Hot and top are sorting algorithms, so are the personalized feeds other websites try to present to you. Saying “hot” is not an algorithm because that’s not what people “mean” is just going to cause confusion.
You’re just completely wrong lol
I’m with you on this one
Well, correcting someone on a technicality is a common hobby among IT people, sadly. Everyone’s happy, I guess - I provided the answer OP was (I think) looking for, they got to boost their ego by correcting someone and I don’t particularly care about those idiots.
OP is clearly talking about the existing algorithm so you’re wrong on both points ackchually 😆
There’s also sort by Top (with various time filters), Hot, Active, and Most/New Comments, all of which are very much algorithms. What it doesn’t have is sorting based on user activity, which also isn’t what’s coming in 0.19. What’s being added is basically the same as ‘Hot’, but takes into consideration the activity on the sub, so as to let smaller subs in a user’s feed not be drowned out by more active subs.
Is that not what “active” means?
Active sorting orders posts by most recent comment, with a preference for newer and higher voted posts.
It’s explained a bit in the documentation:
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
I think active is global activity rather than relative activity.
So many people claiming no algorithms. There are multiple sorting algorithms in place here.
“no algorithms” I’ve always interpreted as “no algorithm tailored to you based on your behavior on the platform and whatever other information we can obtain about you, with the intent to keep you scrolling and interacting as much as possible” but maybe that’s just me.
This is the meaning I interpret first from a social media context.
That’s fine if we want to redefine a word
Words are redefined all the time. Keep up and ask for clarification when needed.
Thanks sis
I’m in the connect community using connect and it defaults to Hot. Hot in the past has led to duplicate and very little activity posts showing up without too much scrolling.