What I don't like about Lemmy so far is the auto-update feature of the feed. I'd like to browse my federated Feed, sorted by "Hot". But after a minute or so, it gets updated and lots of new posts replace the ones I was just looking at.
Even worse, sometimes these are just completely new posts, all from one instance that apparently just got indexed.
This is something that is actively being worked on fyi :) Hopefully it's fixed soon. I think it's just a relic from when these servers were a lot less populated.
This is what i love about FOSS <3
woohooo!
Keep in mind that you don't have to use Lemmy - kbin works as well with the same communities.
I've been using both, but my point is, it's nice to have options.
And you can also easily see the number of upvotes and downvotes separately (not possible anymore with Reddit’s “improvements”) which can be very helpful in some cases
Worse, Reddit implements a "vote fuzzing" algorithm where the upvote count can't be determined reliably. The degree of fuzzing is worse for accounts that are considered untrustworthy based on device fingerprinting, like accounts using the old desktop site and accounts using a VPN.
The vote fuzziness drove me insane sometimes, I just want to know the actual number.
I just refresh a few times, and I figure whatever the median number is is the real karma lol
I mean, it didn't really matter. The delta would be like ±10%, does it really matter? You're more interested in the magnitude.
While here you can currently enjoy the buggy, flickering upvote count doing parkour /s
That seems to depend on the community or instance. I can see them on some, but not others.
Some communities like beehaw have disabled downvotes.
I do like this too.
I want to point out that the "new" sort for comments, however, only takes into account the top level comments. So it may be hard to see the actual newest comments on a post that has aged a bit.
I put in an issue about it on GitHub dut it's gotten no traction at all.
Isn't that how it should work though? If you sort it by comment chains with the newest comment it will almost always be nearly the same as a top sort, since the most commented on comments will likely have the newest comments under them
If I want to see the newest comments, I'd want to see the top level comment which has the newest comment nested before anything else so that I can see the newest comment in context
I'm curious if this is what chat sorting does. Otherwise how is it different from new?
I don't really get chat but I think the difference is that replies are looked at as separate comments, they're decoupled from the parent comment.
So true about needing to reply to top comments. Sucks.
I didn't notice the change here. Thanks for pointing it out :)
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