That’s not really what I was referring to. Sure it selects posts automatically but it’s not like it picks what it thinks a specific user is going to click on.
I think the original commenter was referring to how Reddit was able to balance popular communities and smaller ones instead of the fire hose of memes and tech news Lemmy is.
but it is just a simple vote count/time decay, no consideration given to what you have interacted with in the past, ie the “algorithm” on other platforms
Something has to choose what shows up on hot.
That’s not really what I was referring to. Sure it selects posts automatically but it’s not like it picks what it thinks a specific user is going to click on.
I think the original commenter was referring to how Reddit was able to balance popular communities and smaller ones instead of the fire hose of memes and tech news Lemmy is.
but it is just a simple vote count/time decay, no consideration given to what you have interacted with in the past, ie the “algorithm” on other platforms
That’s why the content isn’t sorted as well as it could be. There’s no one-size-fits-all for social media as people have different things they like.