I wish we could see up/downvotes like in the past. I think reddit may be artificially boosting some posts into the front page. You can see in the screenshot it has very little upvotes (or older) compared to the other top 4 posts.

I have no evidence other than noticing right after the election, /r/conservative seems to be hitting the front page every day. But I remember before the election, it only hit the front page once in a blue moon or so. Is this just me? Am I the only one noticing this?

  • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I’m pretty sure the reddit algorithm tailors itself to your behavior. If you go to or click on a post from a certain sub, it’ll increase how often it shows up in your feed. Downvote and it’ll decrease how often it shows up. Also, it pushes posts that have a high upvote count compared to baseline for that sub instead of purely on upvote count.