I realize that Mastodon is specifically intended not to have any sort of algorithm, and I understand and appreciate that, but it’s not what I want, personally. I want to have the posts in my feed sorted by the ones with the most “engagement” as those are likely the most interesting ones.

  • Excel@lemmy.megumin.org
    152·
    1 year ago

    Lemmy has Hot, Active, and Top sort modes, all of which are different indicators of engagement.

  • xapr@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Mastodon has an “Explore” section, that lists the most popular posts today. It also has subsections for trending news, hashtags, and “for you” which seems to be suggested accounts to follow.

    • HughJanus@lemmy.mlOP
      8·
      1 year ago

      Yes, but this is only trending posts on basically the entirety of Mastodon. I’m looking for posts in my feed to be sorted by engagement. ie: “favorites” and especially # of “boosts”.

      • xapr@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Ah, I see what you mean now. Yes, that sounds like it would probably be useful, but I hope that they are very careful with slowly adding features that change the network/social dynamics of the place.

        • HughJanus@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’m not asking them to change anything. Just wondering if there’s a different existing service.

          • xapr@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’ve heard that there are some Mastodon apps that have their own algorithms, but unfortunately don’t remember any details. Perhaps that would be something to look into.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    71·
    1 year ago

    On Lemmy we can see things by a number of different sorting algorithms. It’s actually a major improvement over Reddit in that regard. I like sorting by top, hourly. I would describe it has having higher kurtosis with lower total volume. The stuff at the top is fresh so if you check every hour or so you get the best of that hour. however if you find yourself scrolling, you’ll get into novel territory very fast. It’s far better than any alg reddit offered.

  • N-E-N
    61·
    1 year ago

    Yea for Lemmy it’s unnecessary but, I do wish Mastodon had more algorithm recommendation

      • s20@lemmy.ml
        71·
        1 year ago

        While I 100% agree with your sentiment, one-word replies are, like, super dickish.

        To which I imagine, if you reply at all, you’ll reply with a single word. So here, let me laugh at your wit:

        Ha. Ha. Haaaa.

        • calm.like.a.bomb@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Trending shit is what brought us to the present moment: with facebook and twitter (I refuse to call it x) and tiktok and all the others pushing lots of shit and lots of other shit to the great enshittification of the internet and our lives. So, no, we don’t need trends. We need social interaction the way it’s supposed to be.

          • s20@lemmy.ml
            41·
            1 year ago

            So say that. One word answers don’t contribute anything, don’t explain anything, and come off as, at best, insulting and dismissive.

            Already agree with you, by the way. For exactly the reasons you just outlined. Well, except that I’ve taken to calling it “the bird site” because I don’t think it deserves a proper noun.

  • Lazycog@sopuli.xyz
    4·
    1 year ago

    Firefish (former calckey) seems to have “trends” and “activity” filters on their platform. Saw that on joinfirefish.org

    Never used firefish but perhaps try there?

    • HughJanus@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I’ve used Firefish, and I do like it a lot, but have been unable to find a stable server. Plus the inability to follow hashtags is a huge drawback…