I’ve seen a few mentions of people feeling like they’re constantly seeing the same content when sorting by active, I’ve since moved to hot, and I’m having a much better time.
Thank you for the tip! I’ve been trying to figure out how to find instances and add them which is a whole nother thing…one step at to figure it out.
I switch between hot and new. Then I’ll sort by new comments. Then top if I’m really out of new stuff.
I don’t understand what “Hot” sorts by. When I use that setting, I see a bunch of threads from a few minutes ago with no comments yet. How is that “hot”?
I’ve always thought it’s the amount of upvotes a post is getting and how quickly it’s getting them
I have no idea what I am doing on Lemmy but I’m just loving the vibes.
same lol
I’ll let you know when I work it out!
Thanks! This helped me.
Lol glad this was posted. I figured it out the 2nd day (July 2nd) but I’m GLAD it was finally confirmed with this and wasn’t just a placebo
Does anyone know how to short comments by top default.
Seems you also sometimes get resurrected 1Y+ necro posts in ‘Hot’, but otherwise yeah you get a lot more post diversity
I noticed this too but went to lemmyverse.net and subbed to a bunch of new things, and unsubscribed from some memes communities that were posting way too much.
I have default sort of top 6 hours, works well for fresh content.
Can I make it sort by hot by default?
Yes, you can find those options under
Sort Typein your profile settings if you’re using the web version. I’m sure each of the apps has that option as well.
That’s pretty hot. 🔥 🔥
that’s fantastic, much better
Also, changing your front page from local only/subscribed to all will show you all posts your instance can see.
Hot and Active singles in your area are waiting to chat.
There are also new “top” options, and really “new” isn’t a bad option.
When I first got here, I found hot was showing a lot of older posts but that seems less the case as time goes on. I think it’s a question of more and more new content appearing now with communities starting to flourish, so it doesn’t fall back on the older stuff as much? It’s a good sign!
