currently juggling between active and hot sorts and both seem to return the same crap throughout the day… what sort works best for you?
I’ve been browsing All -> New
I’ve been blocking communities or instances I don’t want to see. It took a day or two but now I’m discovering some great communities all the time. As my community list grows, I’ll eventually swap to my subscribed feed.
I mostly use kbin; how do you block communities or instances in lemmy? I didn’t see an obvious way to do this, but I am often oblivious so that’s not as conclusive as I’d wish it to be, haha
In Lemmy, there should be a button on the sidebar for communities. You can’t block instances (yet)
Oh, that button is (correctly) hidden if you’ve joined the community, haha
I was able to block instances with Connect. Currently using the Sync for Lemmy internal beta and that functionality hasn’t been added in yet.
With Connect, it was as simple of clicking on the overflow menu and hitting block community or block instance. Worked like a charm!
I flip between mobile and desktop too much to rely on any app-specific features. I do have connect but I usually just go to the webpage even on my phone.
Hot is generally broken, I use top 6 hours to get new posts that actually have comments.
I think “Active” is a great default sort for the exact reason you describe, that posts are a lot “stickier” on Lemmy than they were on reddit and you always get good conversation there even days after the post.
Also, it means that we get memes out of our systems way faster, nobody is even talking about the can of beans after day 2.
Subscribed New is my default
I browse lemmy in these orders:
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Communities I subscribed, sort by new.
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Active All, I’ve blocked a few meme communities so I don’t see them much.
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Top 6 hours All.
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Top 1 hour All.
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If there’s a constant onslaught of new posts in your subscriptions and you read stuff several times every day, go with hot.
If the feed is relatively quiet, but you still want to see something new every few hours, sort by new.
If you check Lemmy only once a day, try active or top of 24 h.
Top 12 hours. Top day gives me stuff I saw already
I sort by active because I like to read comments.
I use Voyager with the option to Mark posts as read on scroll, and then I just hide all the read posts to get a fresh feed.
Subscribed --> new. If there’s not enough content for that day I go to the all tab in the chronological order
I sort by new most of the time, just for the most variety.
I’m using local and hot but voyager’s hide read posts feature greatly helps to filter out what I’ve already seen. It feels a lot more comfortable.
I just go with new
Top 6 Hours seems to change the most for me so that’s the one I use, I only check out Lemmy a couple of times a day with my morning and afternoon coffees. Active when I want to deep dive into comments. and if I was here all the time then new would be my sort preference.
Using Top 6 hours now because Hot is broken. Once it’s fixed I’m back to Hot though.
@mancy
I mainly use Hot and New. What is broken about Hot? And I don’t understand how Top works, because its neither top likes nor top comments.Edit: Never mind, I’m on Kbin and this topic is about Lemmy.
I use top 6 hours and new comments. New comments is nice because it keeps active posts showing up even when they get days old. It also appears to show new posts as well.
