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jjagaimo@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Signtist@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They probably use a simple posts-over-time equation to gauge popularity, so a 5-second-old community with 1 post technically has a rate of 12 posts a minute. Very popular.

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  • elia169@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    that would make sense, true

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    • spiderman@ani.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      guess that part needs to be rewritten then

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  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most of the ones I see have no posts at all and are still “trending”

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• Veedem@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yep, that’s what I get from it too.

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