“Freshness” can also mean frozen fresh ;) Canned fresh. The key concept behind Freshness is to limit the number of posts per community, but also consider that older content if “fresh frozen” is fine for small communities.
“Freshness” can also mean frozen fresh ;) Canned fresh. The key concept behind Freshness is to limit the number of posts per community, but also consider that older content if “fresh frozen” is fine for small communities.
freshness can be a partial index, and a self-tuning scale under heavy load.
lemmy.world has shut down their entire front page, a more graceful response would be to limit to recent freshness value on all queries.