currently juggling between active and hot sorts and both seem to return the same crap throughout the day… what sort works best for you?
Hot and active showed too much old content. So I’ve gone with new and different variations of top _ hour.
Subscribe to some communities that interests you, then comments/subscribed.
My default is Top6Hours
New, Top Six Hour and Top Twelve Hour
Yep, top 6 And new.
The problem with new is that there are never any comments
Yeah, I’ve had the best experience with top 6 hours for all. Blocked a couple communities but not as many as I would’ve thought.
Top Day/x hours in descending order, based on last visit. Gives you the top voted stuff made in more recent time. Though my default sort is actually by new.
I think “Active” is a great default sort for the exact reason you describe, that posts are a lot “stickier” on Lemmy than they were on reddit and you always get good conversation there even days after the post.
Also, it means that we get memes out of our systems way faster, nobody is even talking about the can of beans after day 2.
Top 6 Hours seems to change the most for me so that’s the one I use, I only check out Lemmy a couple of times a day with my morning and afternoon coffees. Active when I want to deep dive into comments. and if I was here all the time then new would be my sort preference.
Using Top 6 hours now because Hot is broken. Once it’s fixed I’m back to Hot though.
@mancy
I mainly use Hot and New. What is broken about Hot? And I don’t understand how Top works, because its neither top likes nor top comments.Edit: Never mind, I’m on Kbin and this topic is about Lemmy.After a couple of posts it starts showing several years old posts
@Marmanvii
Doesn’t happen for me.OH WAIT! I just noticed this is Lemmy. I am on Kbin and saw this through federated content (or through subscribed servers). So never mind then.
I just go with new
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I browse lemmy in these orders:
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Communities I subscribed, sort by new.
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Active All, I’ve blocked a few meme communities so I don’t see them much.
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Top 6 hours All.
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Top 1 hour All.
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Hot is generally broken, I use top 6 hours to get new posts that actually have comments.
I’ve been wondering if Hot is broken for everybody. For my subscribed page it shows 7 month old posts with no comments on the first page… makes no sense.
It shouldn’t be THAT broken, however, broke it absolutely is and there was even some github issues on the matter.
Apparently a side effect of lemmy.world going into maintenance so often is that the hot sort refreshes itself a bit.
It’s been fixed in the next release
I go with New personally, though I don’t subscribe to all that much - I imagine that it would be a bit less pleasant if you’re on a hundred different communities.
Just upgraded to 0.18.3-rc.4 and the Hot sort seems to be fixed now. (I’d guess Active would be too.) So, that now. Before I pretty much only used Top X Hours based on when I last looked.
Though, now that I’m looking at Hot, the communities I’m in definitely feel a whole lot more active.
Top 12 hours. Top day gives me stuff I saw already
