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Comment by jsheard | Hacker News Reader

The engagement quality is better too since replies are ranked based on merit, like how Twitter used to be, rather than whether or not the poster gave Elon Musk $5.

edit: correction, replies on X are now ranked by how much money they give Elon Musk, with $16/month subs getting ranked above $8/month subs, which are ranked above $3/month subs, which are ranked above the plebs.

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Replies aren't necessarily ranked based on merit btw. They are ranked by whatever ordering you choose in your settings. The options are:

- Hot Replies first

- Oldest Replies first

- Newest Replies first

- Most-liked Replies first

- Random (aka "Poster's Roulette")

I believe "Hot Replies" first is the default but I may be mistaken.

And hot replies was only added two days ago, and is simply giving newer comments a temporary boost so they don't end up unnoticed in long threads. Choice is nice!

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3lbxfx4nfkk2z

It'd be nice if they were just ordered by when they were posted, oldest first. That's how it is on Pleroma.

Seems you can make it chronological, as mentioned by the sibling reply.

https://bsky.app/settings/threads

What order replies are shown in is a user profile option.

This is not true afik. All blue accounts are sorted randomly but above non-blue ones. I don't think $16 ones get better ranking