Was just browsing my favorite communities, commenting on posts I found really interesting, and engaging with other users who wanted to have conversations.
… and not a single paid ad in my feed. I effing love this platform.
Was just browsing my favorite communities, commenting on posts I found really interesting, and engaging with other users who wanted to have conversations.
… and not a single paid ad in my feed. I effing love this platform.
I feel a lot more comfortable commenting here than anywhere else. Was always a lurker in reddit, but am a lot more active here. The feeling of not having your comment buried by thousands is kind of nice.
That’s good. Keep that in mind next time you come across something interesting and consider posting it.
Eh, it still happens, but instead of thousands, it’s dozens or hundreds, depending on the community and post.
But I do appreciate the smaller communities and complete lack of ads.
The algorithm for comments is better here too though. It favours the early commenter less than reddit did.
I think it goes too far the other way. I see a lot of comments with the default cord at the top, which are frequently less insightful than the highly upvoted comments below it.
It’s completely fine for the scale lemmy is currently at, but I think it would be problematic with anything approaching Reddit scale.
That’s intentional, reddit has probably the worst sorting algorithm of all the link aggregators. It’s entirely time dependent. In practice, the first post / comment is nearly always the highest rated, regardless of it’s quality.
https://minimaxir.com/2016/11/first-comment/
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html
Ah, that’s why I see heavily downvoted posts near the top.
I wonder if it would make sense to randomly sort for the first couple hours, and then sort by that metric afterward. That would further limit the first mover advantage in more popular communities.
Regardless, lemmy’s sort seems to be fine with the scale it’s currently at.
Default cord?
And I agree it may not scale properly however we’re still far away from that and I think it’s beneficial for growth now.