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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca
 

We have gotten a lot of new signups over the past few days, and we're all very excited to have you joining us! You'll find that people are more than happy to help you get started and learn how to use the site.

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Welcome :)

If anyone is curious, the post sorting calculations are also public (the code is open source). As a summary:

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html

  • Active uses the post votes, and latest comment time (limited to two days).
  • Hot uses the post votes, and the post published time.
  • Scaled is similar to Hot, but gives a boost to smaller / less active communities.

No more hidden algorithms was a big one for me. I personally use 'Scaled', and sometimes flip to the other ones to take a peek