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Yeah, it's precisely why I stopped using every social media except the fediverse. It was toxic to my mental health.
I feel safe assuming it's been similarly toxic to everyone else's, just some people haven't zeroed in on that being the problem.
Even Lemmy was like this. Especially with the default comment sort “active”, which promotes comments that lead to arguments. My experience has been better since I switched to “top”.
I still haven’t found a good post sort that works for me. “Hot” and “Scaled” literally only promote stuff posted in the past two hours. “Top” is kinda sad because you always see posts 1 day old, and “Active” has the negative engagement problem.
The best solution I’ve found is be on an instance with downvotes disabled and sort by “active” but it isn’t perfect.
I usually go by top of the last 6 hours and top of the last 12 hours. is that just a thing in my app?
No its built in and across all the apps.
Thats my preference as well (top 6/12). Thats for all though, subscribed I go new. But its pretty niche communities and not a huge amount of activity.
Voyager?
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I just subscribe to communities I like, then sort by "New" to read those "Subscribed" communities. When I run out, I change to "Scaled" and "All".
I just sort by newest over 12/24 hours. I've found I tend to argue much less with idiots if I get in and out before the troublemakers show up.
I feel the same way and now typically use "Top 6 Hours"
...which is a actually how I found this thread.
I always sort by New and let the chaos chips fall where they may
Thanks for the tips. I'm going to play around with it. Mine is set to hot currently, but maybe that's not my cuppa.
maybe we should be able to blend several of these like i'll take 20% of top day and 30% of active and 5% controversial.. lemmy would grow more of the content was more suitable.