Was just browsing my favorite communities, commenting on posts I found really interesting, and engaging with other users who wanted to have conversations.
… and not a single paid ad in my feed. I effing love this platform.
Was just browsing my favorite communities, commenting on posts I found really interesting, and engaging with other users who wanted to have conversations.
… and not a single paid ad in my feed. I effing love this platform.
Eh, it still happens, but instead of thousands, it’s dozens or hundreds, depending on the community and post.
But I do appreciate the smaller communities and complete lack of ads.
The algorithm for comments is better here too though. It favours the early commenter less than reddit did.
I think it goes too far the other way. I see a lot of comments with the default votes at the top, which are frequently less insightful than the highly upvoted comments below it.
It’s completely fine for the scale lemmy is currently at, but I think it would be problematic with anything approaching Reddit scale.
Edit: fix typo: cord -> votes
That’s intentional, reddit has probably the worst sorting algorithm of all the link aggregators. It’s entirely time dependent. In practice, the first post / comment is nearly always the highest rated, regardless of it’s quality.
https://minimaxir.com/2016/11/first-comment/
TL:DR of the above article: if you’re not one of the first ten or so commenters in a reddit thread, don’t even bother.
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html