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Scaled sorting seems awesome so far (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by maegul@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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Only seen it the past hour or so but I’ve already set it as my default. It seems to work exactly as I’d hoped where smaller but no less interesting communities get their posts higher in my feed.

This could be a huge change and I think lemmy would benefit from those of us caring about the idea being vocal about it and assessing its efficacy.

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[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's having an impact like unions; even people using the other sorts are benefiting from the existence of scaled sort. It fulfils the role way better than Sort by New because that just gives you a bunch of blog spam or stuff in languages you probably don't even speak.

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So excited for this to roll out, I'm sure it'll need further tweaks as we go but it's encouraging to hear positive reports from the start!

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

It’s one of those things that should get better the more people use. The more people see stuff from the smaller communities they’re interested in, the more votes and activity those posts will see and the higher they will get scored for both the scaled sort and the others too.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What's this available on? I'm not seeing it on Jerboa.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Only on lemmy.ml for now, because it’s running a pre-release of version 0.19.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the info. I'll be looking forward to potential further adoption in the future

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

I've been eagerly anticipating this since its announcement.

[–] abobla@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

do you think it is showing too many posts with only 1 upvote? Kinda feels like it in here.

But I've only used it without an account, maybe for te subscribed section this is more interesting.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yea I wouldn’t want to use it outside of the subscribed section, as generally the only small communities I’m interested in are the ones I’ve sought out.

That being said, it wouldn’t surprise me if the scoring for “Scaled” maybe mishandles posts at the edge of “small” where a post has one upvote. As each post starts with a single upvote, they’re not necessarily particularly useful?

[–] abobla@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

yeah, when a post has 1 upvote on a community with 3 users the algorithm will prioritize it over 1 upvote with 40000 users.

I don't know, I think this can be refined if the user is not on the subscribed section.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

Well it has to show new posts and give them a chance to be voted on, so maybe it's fine?

[–] Terr@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 months ago

When I turned it on it was mostly showing posts with around 2-7 upvotes. This seems like a bug to me because most posts have more upvotes than that.