What is the sorting method going on here

Hey all, I moderate quite a few communities and have noticed that the Moderates list has gotten very wonky. It used to be alphabetical but now it just seems random?

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violetgreendev@programming.dev · 4 pts · 3y

Chaotic Evil

NielsBohron@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Chronological perhaps? By the date joined? Or maybe by size/activity?

Edit: or maybe one of the other during methods within each instance, with the instances ordered as well?

Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

doesn't seem to be the case, lots of my brand new communities are mixed into the middle

NielsBohron@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

I'd say it might be random, but random is actually pretty hard to do in programming, lol.

Probably by activity/size or ordered by instance (which is obvs not shown in this view) and then ordered within each instance (which could look random)

Birchoff@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

If the primary key in the db is a non number like a guid, then the sorting is basically random