I’m not really sure where to ask this question. Maybe there’s a lemmy dev community where these kind of discussions already happen.
I feel like the default front page in Lemmy is still severely lacking when compared to Reddit’s r/all algorithm. I find hot and top hourly to be nearly identical. The top 6 hour is closer, but still not as good as what the Reddit default front page is.
Lemmy has like a million users, Reddit has closer to two billion monthly active users. It’s going to be a long time before Lemmy’s homepage has the same activity as Reddit’s.
2 billion seems kind of high. That is like a fifth of the planets population as active users. I don’t think they even have 2 billion registered accounts including duplicates.
A lot of sites state Reddit has 1.6B monthly active users, but really that number is monthly site visits. From what I can find it’s more like 400M monthly active users.
Reddit is still a behemoth compared to Lemmy, which has 1.5M accounts but only 70k active users last month.
I pulled that number from their corporate advertising report, so it’s likely inflated. The number was 1.6 billion and I rounded up. My guess is that it’s 1.6 billion impressions, not unique visitors.
Bots are inflating that number significantly.
I think reddit is around 50 million daily, 500 million monthly active users. The good news is that the vast majority of those users contribute nothing of value.
It’s going to take time but there is no alternative, we just need to build Lemmy up one day at a time.
I recognize this as well. Mostly I want to know that discussions are being had about a front page sort, and what those discussions might be like.
Even without the Reddit user count, I think the sorting should be better.
My only complaint is that it keeps showing me stuff I’ve already seen, even though I have “show read posts” toggled to off.
Is that a feature of an app? Or built into Lemmy? I use Memmy, and that is a feature in there.
Idk if it’s part of the app or built into Lemmy. It’s a setting in my profile when I view it within Jerboa, so I’m assuming it is built into Lemmy and exposed by the app. But it’s not working. Maybe Jerboa isn’t successfully marking them as read. Does it work well in Memmy?
So one in four people, on earth, are redditors? Come on man.
I’m just quoting Reddit. I already said elsewhere that I doubt that’s an accurate number. It’s probably total impressions or something.