currently juggling between active and hot sorts and both seem to return the same crap throughout the day… what sort works best for you?
New, Top Six Hour and Top Twelve Hour
Yep, top 6 And new.
The problem with new is that there are never any comments
Yeah, I’ve had the best experience with top 6 hours for all. Blocked a couple communities but not as many as I would’ve thought.
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.
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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There is not yet enough content for your sort selection to really matter. I sort by new because at least I’ll see more content as stuff is posted throughout the day.
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Top 12 hours. Top day gives me stuff I saw already
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.
Top Day/x hours in descending order, based on last visit. Gives you the top voted stuff made in more recent time. Though my default sort is actually by new.
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.After a couple of posts it starts showing several years old posts
Subscribed --> new. If there’s not enough content for that day I go to the all tab in the chronological order
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.
i tend to sort by Hot as a default. sometimes I sort by New to catch stuff that’s up-and-coming.
i usually browse only my subscribed feed, but I’ll dip into All sometimes to see if there’s anything interesting in communities i don’t subscribe to, but it’s usually just memes.
I just go to the communities that I am part of mainly.
Hot and active showed too much old content. So I’ve gone with new and different variations of top _ hour.
