I haven’t seen a thread on this in a while. I have been going with top day for a while, but it can be hit or miss. Other sorts don’t seem to display as good in terms of balancing quality and quantity. What is your preferred sort for your main feed?
Edit: Realizing that the people who sort new commented before the hot/top/active people, haha
Everything top 24 hours
I used to sometimes use the subscribed tab, but i forgot to subscribe to new communities
New
New.
I like to rawdog Lemmy.
Been sorting new all my life on reddit and I’ve been using Boost forever so now I use Boost and sort by new. I enjoy not seeing the same shit over and over.
I don’t subscribe to enough communities (yet) to have the luxury of sorting by anything other than “new”, or else I’ll run out of content
Sorting by new is the way to go!
unironically, your votes have great influence on the fate of posts
Scaled all the way! I use my subscribed list (All is too much randomness.
Occasionally top 6 or 12 hours to catch up.
And occasionally All New/hot/scaled to see random new shit.
Scaled sort on subscribed.
That’s my back up plan after Top 12 hours on Everything gets stale.
Hot but I sometimes switch to New
Active -> New -> Controversial 💀
Tip 12 Hours works pretty well for me.
I sort by subscribed, new. I wish jerboa could auto show posts by oldest.
I usually use the C standard library qsort function.
Top 12 hours
Removed by mod
quick sort on random input, insertion sort on almost-sorted inputs
Honestly, sorting algos are serious nerd shit. They’re for suckers and losers. If it’s not worth doing, insertion sort every day of the week. Compute is cheap. If it’s actually important, then it’s TimSort (it’s never important).
In small datasets, the speed difference is minimal; but, once you get to large datasets with hundreds of thousands to millions of entries they do make quite a difference. For example, you’re a large bank with millions of clients, and you want to get a list of the people with the most money in an account. Depending on the sorting algorithm used, the processing time could range from seconds to days. That’s also only one operation, there’s so much other useful information that could be derived from a database like that using sorting.
new comments
All, new. It keeps things fresh throughout my workday. I spend most of it on my own, and have a lot of points of 2-5 minute downtime. I end up sitting in the back office and browsing Lemmy pretty often.
All new because there is a lot of shit, different languages & country/place threads that i find interesting.
…and german memes…many, many german memes
Top day until it’s stale, then hot.