I find that Hot and Active give you really old stuff, at least on my instance, that’s like 3-7 days old stuff. New is just new, you know new, no community-assured quality. Top is stuff I’ve already seen. Where do I get a better feed? Can we have like Top 7 hours? Or a mixture of “top 16 hours” and “active”?

What do you do when browsing Lemmy? What are some of your strategies to get good shit while being here? Cuz so far if I try and use the front pages I get bored to shit.

The way I get anything barely worth interacting with from the front page is New Comments. Not the best, but better than the other options I discussed.

That or just, instead of interacting with a lot of stuff, interacting deeply with the few things I find that I like.

  • Zamboniman@lemmy.ca
    6·
    1 year ago

    I know there are plenty of fixes coming in the next version of Lemmy, and maybe some of these sorting issues will be…ahem…sorted out with that.

    • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Lmao some smaller instances still have fucked front pages but the bigger ones are solved already. You’re gonna have to either find a strat that works for you or move around to test stuff.

  • FiendishFork@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Sorting by top day helps. I have actually been sorting by new as well. Not as busy here as it is on Reddit, plus generally high quality so new stuff is pretty good.

    • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve done that, but my new feed, maybe it’s a difference in which communities we follow, but my communities’ New are not top quality but very eh.

  • SolidGrue@lemmy.world
    41·
    1 year ago

    First, this isn’t reddit, sort by Subscribed / New.

    Second, subscribe to stuff and don’t be afraid to subscribe at the same time to smaller communities on other instances. Yes, you cannot group them by topic Yet™, but it’s on the road map.

    • SolidGrue@lemmy.world
      51·
      1 year ago

      Following up:

      Third: Don’t lurk! We need content here. Be a contributor, and don’t worry about what people think. Sieze your moment, and cry, “FIRST! I posted that here.”

      • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
        12·
        1 year ago

        Bruh you’re talking to God@sh.itjust.works. He couldn’t lurk if he were paid a million bucks to do so. This dude has shit to say.

          • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
            11·
            1 year ago

            Man you got almost 500 comments and 50 posts in 10 days. And you’re funny. You’re putting me to shame and I’ve really been trying.

            Btw you ever watch My Mister?

            • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
              0·
              1 year ago

              You’re putting me to shame and I’ve really been trying.

              😳

              well i didn’t know it was hard, maybe i’m just a shitposter cuz i don’t think about it much, i just go for it, and i try not to leave any comment unanswered, even if the answer is only partial. i do have some training in shitpostery. It was at the shitposter special forces on steemit.com where you got money for shitposting a shitton. I guess I kept the habit of never shutting up cuz that’s what brings dem monies over there.

              • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
                12·
                1 year ago

                Lmao hey man, whatever works. Sh.itpost away if it’s stimulating engagement on this platform. We gotta get to at least a million users before I start to relax and feel like Lemmy is here to stay

  • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    1 year ago

    With the current amount of users sorting by new seems to still work quite well. That’s how I found this thread too.

  • hyper@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Sort by either new or top today

    If you’re feeling adventurous select all and sort by new/top today

  • SmugBedBug@lemmy.iswhereits.at
    1·
    1 year ago

    I remember reading that there is a bug with Hot and Active at the moment where older posts keep a high priority for too long. It’s supposed to be addressed in the v.0.18 release in the coming weeks.

    In the meantime, I use New or Top Daily. Not perfect but it gives fresher content.

  • GankTopPlz@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I have 2 issues with hot/active

    1. What I think are new posts suddenly begin filling the top of my feed closing any images I have open and pushing everything down very quickly. This makes both unusable to me.

    2. The algorithm keeps posts that are days old at the top, witch is the opposite of how I would want my regular feed to work.

    However reddit handles hot seems perfect to me, but im open to small changes that will make discovery a little better or to better integrate instances.

  • RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja
    1·
    1 year ago

    Sorting by new is working well for me. There may come a day when Lemmy communities have so much content that it’s too much for me to browse, but we’re not there yet. I’m sure when that day comes, though, Hot and Active will be better methods.

    • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
      0·
      1 year ago

      What do you sort by? I’m already following around 40 communities. Maybe it is indeed which communities I follow and maybe I do need to follow more. I’ll follow your advice and try to fill it up way more and see if that makes a difference (apart from making New an unreadable mess of fast-scrolling titles)

  • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    1 year ago

    New and top day are the only viable options right now. Hot and active are completely broken. I would also love a top 12 hours and top 6 hours though. Because new is a bit too raw, and top day is a bit too stale. Shouldn’t be hard to add those as a temporary QoL fix.