It seems like there is no order to it, and there doesn’t appear to be any way to change it? I would like to sort by “top”
There are some icons at the top of the page and the second from the right lets you select new/active/top:
Edit: it doesn’t remember the order to set the default, but there are options for that in the settings.
The setting you linked shows the sorting for posts, but not for comments, correct? I was specifically talking about comments