100 upvotes on Reddit is 1 upvote on Lemmy

fernfrost@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 483 points –

At least that’s my calculation right now

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I’m just glad that in Lemmy you can join the conversation a few hours after submission and still have your message seen by someone.

I hadn’t thought about that but you’re totally right.

It’s like being at a small dinner party vs. Burning Man :)

I got a reply over a day after my initial response on a thread asking if I remembered to change a Firefox setting. And my reply to that even is still getting a bit of upvotes on it.

It's because the hot comment sorting algorithm is different from Reddit's. It favours fresh discussions over older threads even if they have more upvotes.