So basically 24 hours after posting, there is almost no contributions coming in, and after another 24h, it’s nearly impossible to see anybody chipping in to the subject in question. Everything goes silent, almost as if it didn’t matter anymore.

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    Within Lemmy, I think active is most used as it’s the current default for most instances. I’m not sure how it’s implemented, but based off my observations, I suspect it has some massive drop off after 2 days, because I regularly see posts up to 2 days old and never any older.

    Though OP mentions just one day and I don’t have a good explanation for that. Personally, I don’t like to comment on anything older than a day and often self censor accordingly. I consider “within the last day” to be the sweet spot for engagement. Beyond that, it often doesn’t feel worth my time to comment because fewer people will see it and be able to respond.

    I’m impatiently awaiting a “best” algorithm and will switch to it as soon as it’s available. I dislike literally all the sorting algorithm choices. I just dislike active the least because comments are what I’m here for. Sure would be nice to see smaller subs too, though.

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      Not to mention that sometimes for some reason Active and Hot really like to recommend 4 year old posts that got 1 new content which sucks