I see a very small minority of people using Kbin, but I don’t understand why.

Is this just a coincidence and did some people choose Kbin over Lemmy or is there a good reason to use Kbin?

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    On lemmy the default is Active, which basically boosts any post that still has some recent chatter going on but is otherwise “stale”. In the settings though you can change the default sort. I’ve gone with Hot, which is I think the default sort on kbin too.

    Can you change the default sort on kbin? I could work how to.

      • TheHalc@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        I’ve heard that the “hot surfacing old posts” bug is more prevalent on instances that haven’t restarted for a while. It still shouldn’t happen, but I don’t think it’s universal.

        • kamiheku@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          Like the parent said, it surfaces old (as in years old) posts as “hot”. Not sure if that’s the case still, but I have definitely noticed it before.

          • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Ah … right … yea I’ve seen that happen occasionally … I had actually presumed that something had been changed with that post, perhaps by an admin or something cleaning stuff up, and that triggered a new timestamp for the post.

            Maybe still a bug. I’ll keep track now of when it happens as it might help sort it out.

            But still, that’s rarely the case for me. Just went down a fair way in my feed now and there wasn’t a single occurrence of it. Could it be particular communities causing it, maybe from instances on older software?

            Otherwise though, Hot seems to do what I’d want. Combine with a bit of New or Top for an appropriate time window and I’m all good.

            For comments, Hot/New/Top all do what I’d want too.