What is the difference between Hot and Active when sorting posts?
What is the difference between Hot and Active when sorting posts?
So far I see no difference.
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Hot is what's been getting up voted
Active is what people are actively commenting on.
With low total amount of posts, they're basically the same thing.
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That makes sense. Thank you.
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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.
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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.
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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.