That’s not what is usually meant by that. We had sorting and ranking for literally centuries before what is currently referred to as “the algorithm” on proprietary platforms. But I now understand what was meant, and that it wasn’t important to your point.
There is no algo. Voting is a social action. Fuck the hypothetical algo.
As a lemmy veteran, you should know better: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
Call it what you want, it’s math to sort posts and comments.
Edit: even better link: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html
That’s not what is usually meant by that. We had sorting and ranking for literally centuries before what is currently referred to as “the algorithm” on proprietary platforms. But I now understand what was meant, and that it wasn’t important to your point.
hot, active, new, top, and controversial are all algorithms
Yes, assuming that they actually do anything at all, one could call them algorithms. But they are not what is colloquially called “the algorithm.”