I feel like posts need to age quicker

There is currently a bug in Lemmy 0.17.4 that causes post rank calculation to stop shortly after the server is restarted. It seems like lemmy.world is affected as well.

You can track this bug here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076

I pinged Ruud about this, he can restart the server for now for the ranks to refresh, but I am also working on investigating and fixing the root cause.

Yeah, the “active” sort also seems broken. I change to top with a day time period or hot. Works much better.

One million percent. It’s enough to trigger the instinctual “open Reddit” motion

"Active" is very inactive but "Hot" seems okay. It's a bit slow, too, but not entirely broken.

I personally view this as a good thing for me (if unintended) - I've realised that I spent waaaay too much time on reddit, so I'm trying to cut down on my use of the platform.

I like lemmy, but I don't want to spend all my time here either. The relatively low volume here makes me realise I should be doing other things.

That said, you can always join more communities - or better yet, contribute to them! Start your own posts!

I'm finding it's much better to sort posts by "hot" than "Active", it seems to more heavily prioritise newer posts. I'd really like to make this my default but I can't work out how to do it - does anyone know if that's possible?

my go to method on reddit is sorting by subscribed and top day. this way if I've seen everything already I know I've probably spent too much time scrolling and should check out individual communities if I'm trying to kill more time.

I used to hide on upvote / downvote, would be cool if Lemmy adds this as an option too

You might wanna read up on the algorithm Lemmy uses. Specifically this part:

• Active uses the post votes, and latest comment time (limited to two days).
• Hot uses the post votes, and the post published time.

If you're sorting by Active, that means those posts you're seeing are pretty, well, active even if they're a couple days old.

Are you sorting by Active? That's why. Use hot, or something.

I turned off the show read in the account settings. I don't see the articles I'm reading.

Each client would have to implement it on it own. But marking posts as viewed when scrolled past and hiding them from showing up in the feed again would be a great optional feature

Right now you could turn off read post in settings and browse through All communities with sorting by Hot.

It seems like a lot of people complain about not seeing content but then don't contribute any content themselves. Like, posts are old because there's little new content, so maybe everyone can help contribute to communities. Content doesn't miraculously appear.

I am a bit split. I too find it a bit annoying to scroll past 80% of the posts. On the other hand, sometimes I see that there are new comments (which lemmy shows) under a post about an interesting topic.

Hot and active feeds are currently broken for a lot of big instances. It should be fixed in the next Lemmy server version. For now use New or New Comments. Growing pains of being such new software and such a huge, sudden adoption.

I've started sorting by new which has worked out pretty well, I was noticing the same thing though sorting by active/hot - lots of 3 day old threads. Alternatively I'd love to be able to hide read posts in Jerboa.

Didn't Randall Munroe design the ranking system for big R? Maybe he's got some free time later?

I'll agree with this. I'm hoping this is just a growing pain; considering the large updates that seem to be happening to lemmy's backend recently, I hope this will be addressed sometime soon.

What I do is that I usually have my "frontpage" on subscribed-new. This way there is often new content that I find interesting. If I still want more, I check on "local" or "all" also on new and then I can enjoy standing under the waterfall of content. It's fun going about it this way.

I was thinking the same thing. I've been using the filters to go to New and Hot and other things but when someone comes to the front page they shouldn't keep seeing the same posts for many hours or even days. I remember years ago on Reddit they altered the algorithm so that newer posts would show up more frequently on the front page and it was a massive improvement.

Me when I want to accelerate the passage of time

In the ios app ( mlem) it defaults to top, so always odler stuff

I usually sort by new on my subscribed communities if I see that happens, because normally there are some new posts when I came back to check Lemmy. It seems that if I let it sort by Active or Popular, there are a lot of posts that I've already seen that they still have activity.

I actually get the most utility out of new comments but in my dreams I'd like to see separate drop downs for timespan and criteria. The sort I'm really craving is "most comments" "past day" but I think pretty much every combination would be useful and interesting. They could even have options referring to different time dropoff curves. Then the traditional past day, past week, etc would effectively be flat.

Apparently in the algorithm time is a multiplier that increases the "gravity" but when the first post everyone saw here a few days ago has 1000 upvotes and everything else has 20-30~ even with the multiplier it stays on top. Those posts were an exception to the normal traffic that beat the algorithm. Maybe if the algorithm was based off of like "if x% above the average post karma for that instance then it gets a bigger time multiplier to increase its gravity over time"

But I think those posts getting upvoted hard-core beat the algorithm and it's going to take forever for them to fall.

Yep just logged in and the top 10 posts are all 3 days old. Yeah this migration from reddit is not working for me yet. I'll keep trying.

What you want is sorting by new, in "subscribed" or even "all"

This might be needed, yes. I currently just sort by new, but that will probably lead to missing out on the actually popular topics when even more people start joining Lemmy.

Me when I want to accelerate the passage of time

I change the setting on my home feed into subscribe + new comment. Works well for me. All hot posts still takes chunk of first 10 on my homefeed, but really new post is not that far down the line...