I haven’t seen a thread on this in a while. I have been going with top day for a while, but it can be hit or miss. Other sorts don’t seem to display as good in terms of balancing quality and quantity. What is your preferred sort for your main feed?
Edit: Realizing that the people who sort new commented before the hot/top/active people, haha
Scaled sort on subscribed.
That’s my back up plan after Top 12 hours on Everything gets stale.
Top day until it’s stale, then hot.
I switch between New, Hot and Top 6hrs/Day
sub: top 12 hours, all: top 6 hours
this somewhat balances out feeds I missed on my subscribed list.
I’m a masochist, so I usually do “New”. Lemmy is small enough that I can usually get through most of the new posts in a reasonable amount of time.
That said, if I want to a bit chiller experience, I will use “Scaled” which sometimes bubbles up something I might have missed.
Finally, I will use “Active” if I’m really bored and what to see what most people are engaged with… but that is pretty rare.
I could’ve written this. Same answers, same reasoning. Word for word.
Me too. I feel a little unsettled if i don’t get all the way through new by lunch, like i have a bigger task ahead of me after work.
New.
I like to rawdog Lemmy.
Been sorting new all my life on reddit and I’ve been using Boost forever so now I use Boost and sort by new. I enjoy not seeing the same shit over and over.
unironically, your votes have great influence on the fate of posts
I don’t subscribe to enough communities (yet) to have the luxury of sorting by anything other than “new”, or else I’ll run out of content
Sorting by new is the way to go!
All, Top for the past 6 hours. Sometimes in the morning I’ll switch it to 12 hours to see what I missed overnight and other times the week just to make sure. But I don’t subscribe to anything, give me all the best of Lemmy
I like it hot
new comments
I’m pretty much always set to all, with hot being good for me most of the time. New and scaled are also nice ways to get some extra variety on slow days. I’ll rarely use active and top if I’ve been away for a while
Hot but I sometimes switch to New
Active in my subbed communities and hide read posts, that usually gives me a similar experience that I had with Reddit (and using Boost or Sync for Reddit sometimes makes me forget where I am lol).
Sometimes I sort it to the top 6, 12 or 24 hours though.
Scaled is the default account sort as I find it the best when I am browsing Lemmy on a PC/Lap (which that would be like 1% of my total Lemmy usage, just like Reddit lol).
Default sort? I just set mine to ‘New’ to keep up with the one guy who posts a thousand news articles per minute. The rest of the users are either trolls or the braindead few who haven’t realized they’re the last ones left in this digital wasteland. It’s like watching the end of the internet in slow motion.
New most of the time
Top 6 hours, then New, then top 12 hours.
