• Undearius
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    1 year ago

    I think size of the community should be factored into the ranking, at least a little bit.

    • WhatASave@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Same. I used reddit mostly for smaller communities and the hot algorithm doesn’t seem to pick them up here. They’re pretty inactive but they do have daily posts. If I don’t go directly to that community though, I won’t see them. I’m sure these things will be refined over-time.

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      1 year ago

      That was what the popular page was supposed to do. In reality it just made more subs that I’m not interested in rise to the top instead of posts that a lot of people are interacting with. I don’t really care about some random sports teams rare upset that day, or a nitch reality tv show episode that randomly popped into the feed. It’s just not interesting.

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        1 year ago

        I guess it would be best suited for the Subscribed filter because that would only be topics you’re actually interested in.

    • Paige (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      I believe Reddit’s “Best” sorting algorithm did this, but I’m not sure. Looking at it a 4 hour old post with 2 upvotes from a small community is ranked higher than a 3 hour old post with 889 upvotes from a large community.