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Up/Down votes doesn't matter? (self.main)

submitted 2 years ago by Vex_Detrause to c/main

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I keep hearing upvote and downvotes doesn't matter on fediverse. How does the "Top of the day" work? Is it just comments on a post? Thanks for clarifying.

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[–] avidamoeba 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Very much wrong:

Lemmy uses a voting system to sort post listings. On the left side of each post there are up and down arrows, which let you upvote or downvote it. You can upvote posts that you like so that more users will see them. Or downvote posts so that they are less likely to be seen. Each post receives a score which is the number of upvotes minus number of downvotes.

You can also see further down that most of the sorting algorithms do take votes into account in some way.