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The problem is currently that by default it shows active posts, and its been the same posts for days now. What options do you use for sorting when doomscrolling to see interesting content?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

just got remined to sort by new, so new now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you - also "new", as of now!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Top Day, New, Active

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve been primarily sorting by new. While on other sites I don’t like sorting by new because you’ll see 90% low-quality posts, Lemmy is small and passionate enough that nearly all posts will be good quality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

All and local have been pretty... Bad for me.

I don't hate having fun or memes or NSFW or whatever, but that's not what I'm looking at right now. So I'd like to just hide some communities from my view.

I never used all/popular on Reddit, but Lemmy is small enough to do so. I'd just like to avoid some things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Active seems to show the posts that people are commenting on, whereas Hot seems to be better for showing newer content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

mine is: subscribed + new comment.
subscribed because I can control what I saw on homepage and new comment because "new comment" not only include old post with new comment, but also freshly created post.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I always sort new, check subscribed first and all second. Sometimes I check all and active. I keep adding communities as I find them, so I'm sure at some point I'll be fine with just subscribed new.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having the same problem, but I think I read somewhere they are working on fixing it?

Because it keeps resetting to Active and Local after a while, so I also keep seeing the same posts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There's also an option in your profile options that changes your default sort

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Make sure to uncheck "show read posts" in your settings. That way stuff you've already seen/up voted/read will make way for new things

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I keep it on Active, but I have “Show read posts” unticked, so posts i voted on don’t show up again

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

On desktop, I made a shortcut to my subscribed communities sorted by new. I did the same with Firefox Android

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I sort by new and selecting to show all posts (instead of only the posts of your instance) helps to keep my feed fresh always + I get to know new communities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My problem is that the most popular comms in my subscriptions dominate my feed over anything else. The algorithm really needs to be tweaked to show a good mix of every subscription feed.