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.
Sort by new and push good content up
I do that as well.
This is the way.
This is the way.
scaled is my favourite
Scaled: Like hot, but gives a boost to less active communities
Make sure you push down Monk and his army of side characters too.
I love Adrian Monk, he is my favorite TV detective.
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!
Sometimes it’s been a while since I last checked the feed and I go for Top 12 hours
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
I do “top day” because its not healthy to check this shit more than once per day.
Oh lord don’t I know it!
Could also try sorting by top 6 hour.
Active is the worst one I have no idea why it’s the default.
It gives the illusion of more people being on lemmy.
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
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.
Also use the hide read posts setting
Depends on how you want to use Lemmy. When using it as a link aggregator, you’d probably want to hide the stuff you’ve already clicked on. But as a discussion forum, it doesn’t hurt to go back to threads you’ve already seen to see what new comments have been made since.
But doctor…I am Pagliacci.
Top 6 hours
This is the way, every now and then mix in top 1 hour
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…
Sort by new.
And if you get sick of seeing the same post multiple times on the page, give PieFed a go. It stacks the multiple comments under the one item instead.
It indeed is often the same 5 - 8 posts because everything else gets hidden by politics word filters.
Or, if on mbin, do that in reverse (at least in my case; hot stays stagnant but active is always changing).
Insert the Hank Hill meme:
“If those kids could sort by hot they would be very upset, right now.”
