I’ve noticed that the current sorting algorithms prioritize posts based on votes, which can sometimes lead to posts with high votes but few comments dominating the feed. This may not accurately reflect user engagement. On the other hand, sorting by “Most Comments” disregards votes entirely. I believe Lemmy should consider taking into account multiple user engagement metrics in their algorithms like comments, votes, time spent on a post, etc. What are your thoughts on this? Would you prefer a new sorting algorithm that combines various metrics, adjustments to existing algorithms to include more metrics, or do you like the current sorting algorithms available the way they are?

  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    A good post doesn’t necessarily need a lot of comments and engagement. It can have that, but it’s optional in my eyes. While a bad post, with wrong and controversial information, can have a lot of heated comments, delivering a false engagement impression. Votes is much better with that. Going by heat of discussion, is exactly what I dislike about modern social media, where this is promoted, over real value (people who voted because the main content is good), fueling rage-bait promotion. It’s not perfect and it still happens, but it’s the less bad.