More specifically, how does the ‘hot’ sort option work? It seems to be based on what posts I look at (I think) unlike top and new which are the same for everyone. Is this true? And if so, who controls how the algorithm works? My home instance? Or the base lemmy code?
It’s not based on what posts you look at. It’s the same for everyone. See the documentation here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html
Hot is like Top but uses the time since posting to scale the ranking to keep newer content towards the top.
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That was a known bug in 0.18.2. It looks like your account is on lemmy.world which has very recently updated to 0.18.3, are you still seeing the issue?
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