cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36655278
I was expecting lemmy to sort posts by upvotes but this is not the case: I often find a post with 70 upvotes further down the thread than a post with 20 upvotes.
what decides what goes up and what down?
There are different sorting options for both posts and comments. You can set a default and also manually switch between them when you want.
Check out the Lemmy docs on Votes and Ranking for more info on how each works.