For the latest version of lemmy, hot sort works in the new fashion. There is a pull request with further implementation details linked in the GitHub issue.

Ah, fair enough. My response doesn’t apply then.

You misunderstand what the Hot rank is doing. It’s not balancing newness vs hotness, it’s scaling hotness according to community size. This might feel like newness if you’re focused on vote counts as a proxy for post age, but it’s a different approach. See https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3622 for details.

There’s a couple ways to think about this:

1. There are a handful of Lemmy communities that are just WAY more active than everything else. The main feeds are kind of lame if you have to scroll 300 posts it to find anything other than a shit post from the same 3 communities. Scaled Hot rank shows a greater variety of communities by making it easier small communities to get ranked hotly.
2. Or you can consider Hotness to be a rough measure of what percentage of people who have seen the post interacted with it. A post with 500 upvotes in a community with 10,000 active users is kind of popular, but only 5% of the people likely to have scrolled passed it cared about it. A post with 50 upvotes in a community with 200 active members is much MORE popular relatively even though the absolute numbers are smaller.

At any rate, this preference toward smaller communities in hot is a recent change and deliberate. While they might further tweak the scaling factors, I wouldn’t expect it to be drastically different. It sounds to me like what you want is Top, Active, or Most Comments. All these are unscaled according to community size and will get you top posts by their absolute metric rather than posts that are doing well relative to their community size.

I dunno how to hotlink, but if you scroll to the active users graph at https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy you can see there’s been like a 25% dropoff in active users since the peak in July. Lemmy has still grown 50x since May, and it’s much MUCH more active than it was then. But we’ve definitely crested a peak and not everyone who gave Lemmy a shot then is sticking around in a monthly basis.

This isn’t necessarily bad. Lemmy is still young and has many rough edges, it wasn’t realistic to win all the users that tried it on ease-of-use in a head to head with reddit. And Mastodon has had multiple growth waves interspersed with periods of declining usage, but with the spikes has grown ie remained stable overall. Early-stage commercial social media have big ups and downs in engagement and growth as well, and just like lemmy those ups and downs are often externally driven… when competitors mess up, when a big global news story hits, when a major sporting event happens… these can all be catalysts for one-time growth. It’s not a straight line.

Time will tell what user level we stabilize at in the short-term and what events spur new growth, but it’s normal to have a big expansion be followed by some degree of contraction.

With the refrigeration, which do you consider the canonical community to follow now? You mod both, right? Are you going to keep the bit posting to both?

I’m not sure what data you think liftoff is parsing that lemmy itself is not or could not, but none of the issues in play seem to me to be meaningfully different in an app vs in the core software

I wouldn’t bet on a short-term solution though.

You were banned from the community and are no longer allowed to post or comment there, there’s a public record of this in the modlog: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=29397

The best practice is for the mod to put a comment in when they ban someone about why they did so, but there’s no such comment in your case. You’d have to look back through your post and comment history to try to guess what you did in that community around 2mo ago when the ban happened.

It’s also a good practice IMO to do temporary bans for first offenses, but the mod in this case appears to have issued a permanent ban, so you’re done interacting in that community unless you can message a mod to request being unbanned.

Some mods tell you when they take action, but many don’t. It would be cool if Lemmy itself notified you, but it doesn’t… you have to search the modlog to see.

I don’t think this is a thing and I’m not sure it reasonably can be.

• Maybe if someone properly crossposted, Lemmy could know which posts are identical and skip dupes. Though it would still be a crapshoot which community got displayed… you might end up seeing the comments from the original post in some tiny/dead community while a crosspost to a huge community blows up with it’s own comments.
• But for non-crossposted duplicate posts… there’s no relationship between them as far as lemmy is concerned. They’re separate posts to separate communities that just happen to look very similar. Deducing such a scenario is very sticky.

I use Jerboa the most, Liftoff and Connect see similar usage… though liftoff gets a bit more. It’s not a case of Liftoff being the only actively used app though, or even the most actively used app.

I use them all enough to have maxed out a few hundred megs of cache. But it seems quite likely to me that other apps are doing a better expiring data from their caches than Liftoff.

Liftoff does seem to be unique in this regard as well. Just checked my Jerboa, Connect, and Thunder caches and all were less than 300MB. Liftoff was over 2g.

Have you emailed admin@lemmy.world to try to get reinstated? This all seems like a pretty reasonable explanation if it isn’t repeated behavior.

My take echoes this. If one puts any stock in streamer recommendations, Baalorlord who has at various times held spire world record winstreaks, has recently cited Monster Train as his current favorite spirelike (other than spire itself), and also cited Griftlands as a playthrough a highlight.

Baalor probably doesn’t have an opinion on Inscryption as he tends to avoid things with even a slight horror theme. I enjoyed what I played of Inscryption a lot, but very little about playing it evoked the vibe of playing spire. Monster Train is quite adjacent though, the mechanics are different enough to feel fresh but it slots into the same gameplay mood for me whereas Inscryption is just a different (and still very good) thing.

Neither has the tight balance of Spire or feels quite as deep strategically to me (though in all honesty I’m probably not a strong enough player to be trusted in this regard), but both are fun.

And just today with a comment by a world admin! Hopefully they’ll get it sorted soon.

I don’t know for sure in this case, but it’s often that some license was time-limited. You might license the music for x-years, or get a license to distribute some third-party software library with your game. With the license time-period runs out the publisher either has to pay to renew the license or stop selling the game. In either case, people who bought get to keep what they have.

I asked them elsewhere in the thread and Connect doesn’t have crossposting either, fwiw. I have no idea why they’re posting in this thread, their answer has nothing to do with your question.

I have both Connect and Jerboa installed, they’re both fine. Connect looks prettier, and the search is definitely better. I end up using Jerboa more out of the two.

When I want to cross-post from mobile I end up switching over to Lemmy’s mobile web interface, which can be saved to your home screen as a progressive web app. Not a Jerboa-native solution, but I’ve tried a lot of the Android apps and I haven’t seen any of them support a proper cross-post.

Does connect have crossposting? I don’t see it listed in the triple-dot menu for a post.

Is there an issue for this in the GitHub project? It sounds like you’ve done the hard work of diagnosing the issue and an upstream fix seems likely a modest effort given this info.

No, Beehaw defederated your instance. The open-source community on lemmy.ml someone else already mentioned is your best bet.

I feel like you’re combatively advocating for a specific vision and not collecting and processing feedback as your OP suggests, at any rate… you don’t seem to be understanding what I was trying to say at all… but it’s not something I’m going to fight about with someone who is questioning if I know what a multi-reddit is and dismissing client-side techniques as nonsense without seeming to understand why they were being discussed in the first place.

I’ll leave with these thoughts, do with them what you will:

1. I’m not interested in any multireddit feature that reduces sub privacy. I’d consider it a net loss for lemmy.
2. On Reddit, multi-reddits personal in nature. Such a personal multireddit for lemmy doesn’t require interaction with federation or privacy changes.
3. I realize that a shared super-community feature is frequently requested on Lemmy aimed at addressing duplication of communities across instances. I don’t think that’s more than superficially similar to actual multireddits, and I don’t think it’s a good idea because it creates moderation problems that are far worse than the community duplication problems it purports to address.

What you’ve described is one way. It could also be a filtered view based on the subscribed/all feed which provides a single API call that can return material from multiple communities. I’m not suggesting that a client-side only solution is a GOOD solution. But from an information-flow perspective, I’m suggesting that multireddits are a “local” function. Theu are so local that they’re possible without server-side support at all, and especially local enough not to require representation in the federated feed… which is a more significant change with potential impacts to other federated projects like kbin and mastodon… and shouldn’t require relaxing privacy constraints in any case.