I’ve seen a few mentions of people feeling like they’re constantly seeing the same content when sorting by active, I’ve since moved to hot, and I’m having a much better time.
I find All > New brings up a lot of content. Local is okay for lemmy.world but there’s a lot on federated servers too, which is sort of the whole idea of lemmy so I wouldn’t want to leave those out. It also seems there isn’t enough of a difference between Hot and Active.
I try to only follow the communities on my instance. I don’t like having the delays between one instance and others so I’ll just stick to this place where it’s all in real time
Plus if any defederation happens it has less impact
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Probably not, no. I expect the biggest instance to be the one that keeps growing and the others will be obstensibly connected but mostly small or abandoned.
It’s not like federation is really the way it was sold. It’s not a bad system, but it’s not really how the internet works. Or more accurately not how people work. Users, customers, don’t really want it to work like that. Theoretically Threads is federated too. Not like their users are going to be chiming in to this thread.
“New” lets you get even more diverse content.
That’s pretty hot. 🔥 🔥
This should be a pinned post lmao
Hot subscribed is my default but I cycle through all the different sort settings. Thanks to lemmycommunityseeder I have a All feed that’s populated like a bigger instance on my personal instance
Seems you also sometimes get resurrected 1Y+ necro posts in ‘Hot’, but otherwise yeah you get a lot more post diversity
I noticed this too but went to lemmyverse.net and subbed to a bunch of new things, and unsubscribed from some memes communities that were posting way too much.
I have default sort of top 6 hours, works well for fresh content.
Can I make it sort by hot by default?
Yes, you can find those options under
Sort Typein your profile settings if you’re using the web version. I’m sure each of the apps has that option as well.
I always sort by All and New. In fact it’s my default feed setting on my Liftoff app.
But sometimes you get a lot of posts in foreign languages. But at least you get to discover new communities and re-emerging ones that come over from Reddit.
Same. When I have exhausted my subscribe feed I then go to All - New.
Yeah, I do this alongside sorting by Hot, switching between the two frequently.
Lol. But then you get a bunch of posts from c/Colorado from their news bot and Right now it’s a bunch of posts from nrc. Haha.
I guess you aren’t aware you can hide/block communities? 🤷🏼♂️
No, I’m aware blocking and hiding. I don’t mind it too much. Reminds me the usa is not the center of the universe and usually they slow down or get blocked by my instance since they’re bots. I haven’t had to block or hide yet.
Thank you for the tip! I’ve been trying to figure out how to find instances and add them which is a whole nother thing…one step at to figure it out.
Sorting by “Top -> 6 Hours” has been best for me so far
Yeah seems like the best to see the best new stuff.
I’m more of a top -> day kinda guy
Came here to say this
The problem with sorting by hot, at least on my instance, is that I always seem to wind up looking at a post from years ago mixed in with more recent stuff. That’s not a problem per se, but I find myself almost responding to a conversation that happened a long time ago.
Tell your instance admin to restart the Lemmy service every so often. We have ours restart every six hours since that fixes the hot thing breaking and getting stale.
Larger instances might not be able to restart often as it could leave some interactions in limbo.
Thanks for the tip! And I happen to be the admin, lol. I’ll set a cron job to restart the lemmy container and see what changes.
I’ve set it to restart every six hours.
You should know you’ll lose the outbound queue of interactions everytime you restart. I was also under the impression that the big this was supposed to be a work around for had been fixed in 0.18.
What command do you use to restart the Lemmy service?
Great tip!
Sorting by hot also shows me a bunch of nsfw communities for some reason
Oh, maybe lemmy.world is using another definition of “hot.” ;)
To be fair, r/all would always have tons of NSFW posts before reddit started filtering them from the front page ~2 years ago.
When I first got here, I found hot was showing a lot of older posts but that seems less the case as time goes on. I think it’s a question of more and more new content appearing now with communities starting to flourish, so it doesn’t fall back on the older stuff as much? It’s a good sign!
I don’t understand what “Hot” sorts by. When I use that setting, I see a bunch of threads from a few minutes ago with no comments yet. How is that “hot”?
I’ve always thought it’s the amount of upvotes a post is getting and how quickly it’s getting them
I sort by TopDay and that seems to get me quite popular content, but Hot is also good for new stuff. Love the options for sorting on Connect for Lemmy
