Active seems to order based on discussion length while hot lets you discover newer content that’s also popular.

I changed my default settings to hot, since it seems to be better for discovery.

  • drone515@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Here in the documentation it explains what the sort modes do. Active considers the time of the latest comment, and hot considers when the post was published instead.

    • Cougar@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Thank you, that makes sense. My biggest concern here is that “Active” often shows posts that are several days old when new content is already available.