I was just scrolling through my feed. This whole Firefox Chrome instanced post I have seen literally 15 times. Most of my feed is nothing but that post.
I understand trying to get Lemmy popular. And I understand distributing knowledge of this.
Sorry if I sound like I’m complaining. I want to like Lemmy. But I’m struggling. And I can’t do reddit.
Maybe I need to figure out a different algorithm like more threads to follow?
Maybe I’m part of too many technology threads. :)
Which sorting algorithm do you use? Hot and Active are Broken, New and New comments are better
Hot and Active work fine on some instances. Depends how the instance admin have implemented them.
Do you mean admins that are running a fork of Lemmy? Hot and Active are plSQL functions, you can find them in the source code.
I don’t think it’s true that hot and active are broken.
I think the situation is more that the process that calculates the score of posts, which is used by hot and active to rank posts, can get behind the number of posts and so not update the score of older posts. This is why, when you do have a problem with hot (which I think is the more problematic algorithm), you’ll see quite old posts appear out of no where.
My understanding is that this issue has been fixed recently and should probably appear in the next update. The fix, from what I saw, was to make the score calculation process substantially faster such that it really shouldn’t have trouble keeping up with all posts. I haven’t checked in with github about this recently though so there’s a chance this isn’t the complete picture.
Broader point though, about hot and active, is that they seem to be broken not as algorithms, but because the underlying score of older posts can be way higher than they should.
In my experience, I hardly see this issue now, and usually you can skip through the old posts that turn up out of nowhere.
I mostly agree with you, I was just trying to give a quick fix to OP to solve their issue.
I also noticed they they are registered on lemmyverse.org, which is a quite small instance, which might also explain the poor browsing experience
Woah … for such a great instance name and having open registrations … very small. Interesting.
If that’s what’s happening then maybe the algorithm should weight scores towards the newer posts, so that a post’s rank in the algorithm decreases as it ages.
Yea I don’t all the details so I can’t answer that intelligently. But it stands to reason that the root problem of having a score calculating process that can get behind is worth solving one way or the other. Especially, provided what I read is true, if it can be made much faster such that you really won’t need to worry about that problem again.