Im personally a "New" enjoyer.
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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"New" for subscribed, top6h for everything
I would love a hybrid of my subscriptions and top posts. I'm still settling in from Reddit and I'm still to find out what's out there.
Getting to grips with how to search for and find communities.
I just searched for some of the bigger servers, opened the communities tab and subbed every community I found remotely interesting. Was about 2-3h of work.
Thank you for your contribution based new sorter.
I found you on Hot!
I found it on top 6 hours
I appreciate how deeply weird Hot is. Doesn’t take much scrolling before I see posts from months ago.
The only thing I see now are memes. That's what I dislike currently about Lemmy. People aren't active in other communities most of the time. I am not here to enjoy a instagram-like feed, I am here to read and discuss, like in the forums.
This is one thing that Lemmy REALLY needs to work on. The hobby- and topic-specific communities need to grow. Lemmy is currently dominated by like 5-10 communities, which is fine, but it really falls short of the experience I had on Reddit in that regard.
I am pretty excited to slowly repost all my old content here over the course of several months to reap all those fake internet points again. It isn't reposting if it is a new website.
I do 6, 12, and 24 hours based on how long it was since I last browsed lemmy
Based chronomaxxing
My Fediverse experience became exponentially superior once I learned that the default sorting options were a bit shite compared to the alternatives.
I'm still not sure what's the difference between Hot and Active. ELI5, anybody?
Active means most comments in recent time, Hot means most upvotes in recent times
When you sort by hot in public and scroll past hardcore porn in public.
I wish Hot had a bit less post decay, it would be close to perfect then. Active doesn't surface new posts often enough for me
Trying this out brb
What's the difference between Hot and Top?
The Lemmy documentation explains the different sort options pretty well: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
The difference between "Hot" and "Active" is probably the most confusing to most users.
Getting bad gateway on the link but thanks for sharing it. I'll check it later.
Is active really that bad? 😭. What am I doing wrong?
It's easy for really old posts to get necro'd in Active sort. Not necessarily a bad thing, but if you use the "feed" to keep up with the latest then it'll cloud your listings a bit. A lot of people don't look at the post date right away (especially those of us from alien site since we're still operating on old habits).
Hot also had a bug that pushed old posts up, IIRC? Maybe i'm thinking of Active; I can't remember off the top of my head as I type this. Anyway I think Active is based on recent comment activity and Hot is based on recent voting activity. Nothing wrong with either, but I am honestly appreciating the "Top X hours" methods to keep up with recent news and events and to keep things fresh.
We're still in the "oh shit activity has increased by a factor of a thousand, we need to make the database not crash" phase of development of Lemmy (and kbin) so I'd expect that eventually the feed sorts will be looked at and tweaked. Just needs a bit of attention to get what you are looking for at the moment.
Honestly that makes a ton of sense to me. The only real/sort of real problem I have with the sort from the "last X hours" is that I feel like as someone who doesn't regularly check the site I would miss a lot of posts I wouldn't normally see. That's just my perspective. Thanks for the insight though.
Incidentally, certain sorts have more porn than others. Active has less, hot has more, and that's probably due to the fact that it's stupid to comment on porn posts. With timed sorts, you can also get some sorts with more or less of it.
The fact that I'm still seeing this at the top of my "Top (Twelve Hours)" means you're probably right? lol
i sort by 'new comments' by default. makes me feel like i'm on ye olde forums, and i am mostly here for discussion more than anything.
Holy shit thank you! THANK YOU!
I didn't know this was an option!
THANK YOU!!!!
Thank you !. I was trying to find a noob's guide to Lemmy.
Yes but also no, it's mostly just memes. Pretty disappointing
just use the home tab on posts
This was the very top of my “top 6 hours” feed. Checks out 
Top 12h for All, New for Local(small, country specific instance).
Who use Active anyway? I have no idea what's that for. Because it looks and function very similar to New Comment. Hot is just New but also...Active? Because it will show both new content and also post from days or even weeks ago lol
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