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.
Sorting by “Top -> 6 Hours” has been best for me so far
I’m more of a top -> day kinda guy
Came here to say this
Yeah seems like the best to see the best new stuff.
Wish we had a “rising” option. That was my fav on reddit
Yeah, I second this, used it a fair amount myself.
Lemmy’s hot has some aspects of rising in it. Even posts with very few votes stay fairly high up if they got those votes early.
Hot for discovery.
Active to check in on ongoing discussions.
Use both, they are for different things.
Yes agreed. I do hope this is mentioned somewhere because I can see someone getting frustrated and leaving the site
All tools exist for a reason
I always sort by All and New. In fact it’s my default feed setting on my Liftoff app.
Same. When I have exhausted my subscribe feed I then go to All - New.
Yeah, I do this alongside sorting by Hot, switching between the two frequently.
Lol. But then you get a bunch of posts from c/Colorado from their news bot and Right now it’s a bunch of posts from nrc. Haha.
I guess you aren’t aware you can hide/block communities? 🤷🏼♂️
No, I’m aware blocking and hiding. I don’t mind it too much. Reminds me the usa is not the center of the universe and usually they slow down or get blocked by my instance since they’re bots. I haven’t had to block or hide yet.
But sometimes you get a lot of posts in foreign languages. But at least you get to discover new communities and re-emerging ones that come over from Reddit.
I prefer Top Hour. It filters out the junk.
Seems you also sometimes get resurrected 1Y+ necro posts in ‘Hot’, but otherwise yeah you get a lot more post diversity
I love the TOP x hours sort. My default is 6 but if I notice seeing the same content, top 1 hour fixes that
Wouldn’t one downside of this be that smaller communities will not appear though?
I think you’re right. If you want to explore the lemiverse I think all->hot is your best bet.
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!
I sort by TopDay and that seems to get me quite popular content, but Hot is also good for new stuff. Love the options for sorting on Connect for Lemmy
Yes, I discovered it yesterday, but while now the content is new every time, IMO its quality has decreased a lot (mainly memes, shower thoughts or news about Reddit or Musk).
Block the memes and things looks better :)
Can I just block memes from the /all feed?
Does anyone know how to short comments by top default.
I think Hot seems kind of bugged?
Hot sorting is not hot #1748 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1748
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
Mind if I ask a stupid question? I’m seeing lemm.ee more and more thanks to Memmy displaying it under usernames. How is it different from lemmy.world? Sorry if this should be obvious, still getting used to the fediverse.
It’s understandable to be confused. The easiest way to wrap your head around it is to think of it like the difference between Gmail and Hotmail, they both have the same purpose and do the same thing (showing you emails) but they are on different servers run by different people.
Lemmy.ml – lemmy.world – lemm.ee – etc.
They are all servers that connect together. Some posts, pictures, and profiles are saved to one server, some are saved on another. All of that is accessible between all of them.Gotcha, I think more or less I already understood that much. I meant more so how do they (lemmy.world vs lemm.ee specifically) differentiate from one another?
Is it simply the instances they federate with or is it the ones they block? Is there a “goal” for them worth considering when picking one? I only picked lemmy.world because it was the most popular. Saw that OP is from lemm.ee so thought I’d ask this here.
So for example: I’m somewhat interested in seeing how things go when threads users get included in the fediverse. I saw a post from lemm.ee basically saying they were considering it while another preemptively blocked them.
Sorry if this is too specific lol.
So you can already kinda see how the different instances differ.
They all for the most part run the same server which means they will all look the same. The difference then comes down to how they will manage the server and moderate the users.
I can’t give specifics between lemm.ee and lemmy.world because I haven’t really seen much from the admins. I know Ruud, the admin of lemmy.world, also hosts large instances of other federated platforms like Mastodon, so it can be assumed they are experienced with hosting and there will likely be limited service interruptions that other instances may face.
One instance may be more relaxed with controversial topics and not block them from happening, one may want to defedare with certain instances because they simply don’t agree with their viewpoint even if others may be interested in hear from other viewpoints, one instance may not want to update to the latest Lemmy version right away which means things might be slow or not work as well until they do update.
I’m sorry if you are looking for the actual specific difference between lemmy.world and lemm.ee, but ideally the administration of an instance should be transparent to you.
Don’t be sorry, your replies were helpful and informative. I didn’t even consider server performance.
Server performance is a big one, lemmy.world was really slow for a while because it was the biggest one
Well you also have to consider the philosophy of your admins. They can block and censor anything for you basically. You might join an instance that removes posts critical of a certain country, etc.
But mostly it’s just about who they defederate
Got it. So why did you pick thelemmy.club?
Actually, I run thelemmy.club
So I get to make all those decisions. I try to be fairly laid back though as I have over 100 users now (though only a dozen or two active ones)
As a seperate note, you can click the
Instancesbutton at the bottom of the page to see the other instances that are being federated and being blocked by the instance you’re on.
I find All > New brings up a lot of content. Local is okay for lemmy.world but there’s a lot on federated servers too, which is sort of the whole idea of lemmy so I wouldn’t want to leave those out. It also seems there isn’t enough of a difference between Hot and Active.
