Only if you calculate based upon the root. Most clients don't display root counts. There's also no differentiation, based upon depth or entropy. 

A thread like 

GM
-- GM
-- GM
-- GM
-- GM
-- GM
-- GM
-- GM
-- GM
-- GM
-- GM
-- GM
-- GM
-- GM
-- GM
-- GM
-- GM
-- GM
-- GM

will usually be ranked higher than one like

Longish, interesting text containing information
-- Response with question
-- -- Answer to question
-- -- Another question
-- -- -- Answer, from someone else
-- Useful feedback to the OP
-- Interesting tidbit
-- -- New conversation participant, totally excited about tidbit
-- -- Person new participant tagged, to come look at tidbit

I mean, maybe it _should_ be ranked higher. Maybe we're all just here to say GM to Jack. But I'm saying that I don't know if algo developers are considering this effect. There's a reason why trending feeds are so mind-numbingly dull, and this is the reason. 

 Just checked Primal. 7 of the posts on the 24-hour list are GM posts containing no additional information. Most of the rest are memes, shitposts, or people complaining that the trending list is nothing but GMs, memes, and shitposts. 😅 

These are things that get a lot of interaction, and they're often fun for the participants, but if that's the best we have to offer new arrivals, then we're done here. 

 I had to dig to find this. Part of me wishes I didn’t have to — but the another part of me is happy that I did. I get to discover and curate following my curiosity. I also use Damus over Primal most of the time. 

 Damus is a whole class above Primal, but you didn't hear that from me.

I'm on Android, with the other poors. 

 Nah the real poors are on web browsers XD 

 Nostrudel, FTW. 😅  

 The fact that I use noStrudel **on my phone** tells you all you need to know 😅 

 I do, too, actually. 😅 
It's by far the most performant and I use all sorts of obscure functions, like Event Console and NAK, and stuff. 

 It works for sending notes, and threads, that's about it. My notifications are broken, it reloads fairly often, when clicking on images it also reloads the page. Auth is still pretty hit and miss. Primal is only useful for feeds sometimes. Nostter has good notifications, but threads stink compared. 

Also the tools and relay settings is Nostrudel all the way, but I just have to clear cache and reload once a day.