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How to Counteract Recency Bias on Lemmy Sorting Algorithm

On Lemmy, a link aggregator, if a community increases in size over time, new posts will get more votes than old posts and be more likely to appear at the top of the "all time" sorting algorithm. To address this issue, we need to implement another sorting method in Rust. For example, we could create a new algorithm that takes into account the monthly active users at the moment of posting to calculate the post's score.

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