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Do up/down votes matter?
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Not sure what you mean when you say Reddit votes matter in some way that they don't on Lemmy.
On Reddit, the algorithm that determines which posts appear on the main page is heavily influenced by the number of up/down votes for the post and its comments.
Ah, and that isn't the case on Lemmy I suppose?
No clue, actually. I know you can sort based on votes, but I've never thought about how the main feed works. I'll have to look it up later, if I can remember
Would be interesting to know. 😁
On Lemmy, you get to make your own algorithm to choose which post comes first.
So you can even go with a most-downvotes-first approach.
It will matter depending upon what people choose.
The usual ones on clients^[or is it coming from the server? Yeah, it seems to be provided by the server] are Hot, Top, Controversial, New and Old and the Controversial one has to do with both, upvotes and downvotes.