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I’m not talking about the “New” sort method for comments, I’m talking about the “New Comments” sort method for posts
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
New Comments: Bumps posts to the top when they are created or receive a new reply, analogous to the sorting of traditional forums
traditional old-school forum software and I think that revives older content better, as one user commenting on an old post will bring up a thread to the top again.
Lemmy does this if you use the “New Comments” sort method
yes I think there can be a lot of power here, Reddit was really bad about this
sometimes I like to sort posts by “New Comments” so it’s like an old style forum, Reddit couldn’t do this at all and it was awful, Lemmy’s “Active” sort is also pretty good for this
for reference, this is what it looks like on Mastodon, the post to !announcements@lemmy.ml it gets the hashtag for announcements
https://mastodon.social/@dessalines@lemmy.ml/112576601493225058
it’s not really part of the message text, it’s separate