• BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Reddit hot sorts more by popular, so things take a long time to rise up.

    Lemmy hot seems to be (too much) biased to new. Can be a bad thing because it looks like things don’t get popular. They do but you don’t see it by hot, you see it by top 12 hour.

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      1 year ago

      Early 2010s Reddit was so addicting, if there was something in the world it was on the front page in 15 minutes. I remember being excited to check on Reddit after waking up to see that was the event of the day.

      After 2016 the algo was screwed up and it became a cesspool of reposts and news were late to show up.

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        1 year ago

        Now I learn this, 2 months after tossing that platform in the bin.

        After years of wondering where the hell the breaking news went…