cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36655278
I was expecting lemmy to sort posts by upvotes but this is not the case: I often find a post with 70 upvotes further down the thread than a post with 20 upvotes.
what decides what goes up and what down?
There is a weighting applied to the community size. Since we’re smaller a community that’s popular could dominate the feed and smaller communities wouldn’t be seen for pages, which hurt getting the word out about them.
If you prefer if that way it’s still there, check out Hot and Active for things you may be used to, Scaled is the one I’m referring to which most instances have set as their default.