Coelacanth

No, that’s not how it works. Instances absolutely interact, that’s the whole idea of federation. It can get more complicated than that if you want to get into the details of how it works, but that knowledge isn’t in any way necessary to just use the platform.

Loving these development updates and it looks like you’re making good progress, I really appreciate all the work that you guys do. ❤️

I had a look at the join-lemmy redesign too, and it looks slick, much better than before.

Completely agree. I can think of many examples of an instance whose content I don’t want on my frontpage (foreign language instances for example) but whose users I still want to interact with in communities on other instances.

Dedicated users posting is the best way to slowly grow communities like that. It’s much less likely others will post if it seems like a ghost town, but if someone is posting others are much more likely to join in. And at the very least there’ll be content to engage with when new people find it.

This would be a great setting, especially if the toggle is easily accessible in the UI. I personally want to change between Top/New comments fairly frequently.

Feddit.nu upgraded to 0.18.3 and I can confirm Hot seems to be working now.

Top 6 Hours and New Comments are still both useful sorts, though.

The Hot algorithm seems to be working properly after the new update, even on a smaller instance. Feddit.nu just updated to 0.18.3 and I’m no longer seeing months-old posts on the frontpage when sorting by Hot!

And the database improvements are incredibly impressive, thanks for all the continuous great work!

There seems to be two bugs with the calculation. First of all the count doesn’t sum properly, secondly it resets to 0 when you delete a comment.

It’s also worth adding that Karma calculation on Lemmy - at least currently - is even more meaningless since it doesn’t work properly. Not only does it fail to calculate your score well [1], deleting a comment resets your total comment score to 0. [2]

[1] Lemmy GitHub issue #3393

[2] Voyager GitHub issue #312

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Not sure your example formatting for spoiler tags is correct, this is what it looks like on my end (using Jerboa)

Using Connect? The various third-party apps seem to have different troubles with Markdown, I get that same result viewing this post on Connect, but it seems to work fine on Jerboa.

I think fanaticus.social was created to be the sports instance, but it is fairly new so I’m not sure any communities hosted there has taken off. It is what you’re looking for, though.

The Hot algorithm seems bugged at the moment, and the issue is particularly exacerbated for accounts on small home instances. I’m also getting weird front pages when sorting on Hot, so I stick to Top 1/6/12 hour sorting for now, and maybe Active occasionally.