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
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.
Subscribed New is my default
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.
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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Subscribed --> new. If there’s not enough content for that day I go to the all tab in the chronological order
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.
I sort by new most of the time, just for the most variety.
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.
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.
I just go with new
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.
on Liftoff I can sort by Top 1 Hour or Top 6 Hours, idk if that’s a standard lemmy thing
Subscribe to some communities that interests you, then comments/subscribed.
I just go to the communities that I am part of mainly.
