I came from Reddit where they definitely did matter. They don’t seem to hold any real weight here. Is this true for some or all instances? If they don’t matter, what are they for?

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    55 minutes ago

    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[1] are Hot, Top, Controversial, New and Old and the Controversial one has to do with both, upvotes and downvotes.


    1. or is it coming from the server? Yeah, it seems to be provided by the server ↩︎