Lemmy’s default sort is “Active”, which means that the most active threads will stay at the top of the frontpage, which can make the same few threads stay for ages. It does give the impression that lemmy is more active though.
I like
Scaledwhen I want exposure to things outside my bubble but not brave enough forNewThere’s nothing wrong with leaving New to the professionals.
The shit we’ve seen…
But then you’ll be flooded by 0 comments posts.
Maybe if you sort by new. Try sorting by “new comments”
Sorting by hot also does that. It’s just broken.
But doctor…I am Pagliacci.
Top 6 hours
This is the way, every now and then mix in top 1 hour
i usually do hot / subscribed and if I run dry, i do all
and if that runs dry, i do scales… sometimes I will try other stuff but that’s usually good enough
Active is the worst one I have no idea why it’s the default.
It gives the illusion of more people being on lemmy.
top last time i checked lemmy
I’m a fan of “Top six hour” it refreshes often enough to see intersting tidbits throughout the day but not so much that I’m checking every twenty minutes!
Just tried that and scrolled through seen posts until it ended. I expected it to start off with hottest of the last 6 hours, but is it only the last 6 hours? I guess I don’t have enough communities
Yeah, it’s the top posts that were posted in the last six hours. Unless you have a pretty wide sub list it’s usually better if you do it for everything/all, eg. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=TopSixHour . Otherwise top 12 hour or top day is usually good
Thanks. I’ll take it as a jump off to diversify again. I stuck to joined communities because my feed was getting steamrolled by dumb, socially adverse, or majorly irrelevant communities. My original communities probably also died off, too.
Sometimes it’s been a while since I last checked the feed and I go for Top 12 hours
I do “top day” because its not healthy to check this shit more than once per day.
Oh lord don’t I know it!
Top comment was sponsored by Top Six Hour Gang
Could also try sorting by top 6 hour.
Or, if on mbin, do that in reverse (at least in my case; hot stays stagnant but active is always changing).
Also if you don’t want to manually switch it all the time, go into your account settings and change the sort type to whatever you prefer. Similar should apply in apps, with a bonus: some apps will let you change default comment sort setting as well.
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Personally, I like “Scaled” and “Hot” the most, but I also check “New” to discover communities that may otherwise get lost (and, to ban spam/bot/troll accounts along the way as well) - and lastly, I also have a look at “Top/Day” at least once a day, to see what’s the “talk of the town”.
It definitely feels like we had some growth in proper, organic activity. Just a few months ago, it definitely felt like “Top/12hrs” was the best one for the amount of content that was being posted. But for a while now, “Hot” and “Scaled” feel much better than that one.
Scaled gives me some super niche posts with two or three upvotes sandwiched between the same posts I see when I sort by active, which is not always bad but not necessarily what I want either. If I feel like I need content I go for new or top 6/12/24 hr.
It indeed is often the same 5 - 8 posts because everything else gets hidden by politics word filters.
Sort by new.
