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What is the difference between Hot and Active when sorting posts? (feddit.org)

submitted 2 months ago by MemmingenFan923@feddit.org to c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

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So far I see no difference.

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sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Thats interesting.
Active prioritises posts with a high amount of activity, and keeps them close to the top for a while. This makes lemmy look more active.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html This explains how the algos work.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 2 months ago

Hot only takes NSFW posts into account. 😉

I think Active are posts that get a lot of comments and Hot are posts that get a lot of upvotes. Of course they can overlap.

[–] dryfter@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

For me Hot sends to be a combination of upvotes and comments. Active seems to be for newer posts with a steady increase in votes. I also seem to get more duplicates with Active compared to Hot.