This will be great advice in a couple days when everyone else sees it.
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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This made me spit lmao
It’s been two days and it just showed up in my active feed!
Sorting by top during the last 6 hours is by far the best experience for getting “what’s hot”. It’s not as buggy as hot is, which show months old content.
I've gotten years old content on hot, only a couple pages down.
This is a known bug. Should get fixed by an update soonish
Oh wow that option was right there, for some reason i never bothered to read it.
It doesn't help that we have pinned posts from many communities hogging the top space in many sorting options, without a way to get rid of them.
There should be a local (as in inside the community/magazine) pin and a global pin (which should be used if it really interests the whole instance).
Maybe there is already an Issue or even PR to address this, but I'm too lazy to actually look it up on the LemmyNet github.
All.
Sort > top (day, 12, 6, depending on when you browsed last.
Sort -> Top( 1 hour, 6 hour) 🔥
that and a dash of new 😋
Hello there, and welcome to our community! I hope you like it in here.
Could you please include some body text as to why should people know this, and how would that help them? It’s our second rule. Thank you :)
Hot seems broken though. I see lots of posts that are days/weeks old, posts with 1 upvote, posts 20 minutes old with 1 upvote and so on.
Yes, there is a bug. It's better than it was before, but still needs some work.
It may depend on the scope of your browsing? Are you referring to All, Local, or Subscribed?
Is there a way to not see a post once you have voted on it?
In the Lemmy settings in the web browser there is a setting to hide viewed posts.
Thanks!
wefwef just rolled out "swipe to hide". So it'll depend on what client you're using.
Even though I'm now subscribed to heaps of channels, my feed on 'subscribed - all' only seems to show me posts from the same couple of channels even though a couple of those channels are way less active then many others I have.
Anyone have the same experience/tips - doesn't matter whether I set to new or hot
Somebody tag a developer to make this a new registration tip before everyone just leaves the place because it's "stale"
I have my profile set on hot and subscribed.
Funnily enough, I just switched to sorting by hot for this exact reason and found this post
I had year old posts on my front page yesterday, but today I don’t. I have absolutely no idea why or what I did differently.
I’m using Top Day when browsing All. This way, I don’t miss any of the fresh beany memes.
Thank you! Also do save posts not work? I always seem to get timeouts
Wondering this too, I would love to save some posts to come back to
It’s been better today. I believe it’s just lemmy.world being overloaded
Also possible on Connect 😏
Question, i used to browse only r/all on reddit. Now on memmy app i go to feed press in upper right all and then browse. Do i only see posts from my “world”?
On liftoff "all" shows me communities from all instances (worlds). I imagine most apps are the same but you can tell for sure if the @instance from some of the posts you see are not the same as the one you're on.
No that would be "Local"
"All" is everything from pretty much everywhere
Question, i used to browse only r/all on reddit. Now on memmy app i go to feed press in upper right all and then browse. Do i only see posts from my “world”?
If you select “All” then you will be able to see post from all the federated instances.
'All' is posts from all federated instances. If you want to view all posts from your instance use 'local'.
Sort by hot to see thq hottest 6mo threads.
Is there a way to not see a post once you have voted on it?
I recently switched to sorting by New, which sounds insane coming from Reddit, but Lemmy is much smaller right now, and New is actually viable and interesting.
I'm sure with more growth that will change, but it's definitely kept my feed fresher and more interesting than either Active or Hot.
(This does of course assume that you're subscribed to a reasonable number of communities you're interested in.)
Bruh I'm sorting by new and I still see the same posts. There's just not that much activity.
Change to subscribed
On KBin the default view is similar to /r/all this can be changed to limit your view to only magazines/communities you are subscribed to by going:
- Select your account name in top right corner
- Select 'Settings' from the account context menu
- Select 'Subscription' from the 'Homepage' drop down
- Select 'Save' on the settings page
This will change your default URL to https://<insance url>/sub (e.g. https://kbin.social/sub). This will change your feed to the top/newest/hottest from your subscribed magazines/communities.
Time Filter
If you look at the KBin screen, you will notice a filter by time option. Look for the navigation bar with hottest/newest/etc.. on it on that bar is a upwards arrow and 4 lines representing a triangle (its normally used as a sort symbol). That will let you set time limits similar to those mentioned in this post (e.g. 3 hours, 6 hours, 12 hours, 1 day, 1t (is 1 week).
Microblogs
Its also worth looking at the 'microblogs' feature under /sub as that will focus on mastodon messages/kbin microblogs with hashtags associated with your magazines/communities.
You can ask KBin to subscribe to people you find through Mastodon, due to the rate changes various twitter users are migrating around. I find KBin a nicer way to read their content.