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[–] [email protected] 31 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] thedirtyknapkin 18 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] TheBat 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] thedirtyknapkin 1 points 8 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

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".

[–] Passerby6497 8 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] NounsAndWords 7 points 11 hours ago

I feel the same way and now typically use "Top 6 Hours"

...which is a actually how I found this thread.

[–] kat_angstrom 4 points 11 hours ago

I always sort by New and let the chaos chips fall where they may

[–] Orbituary 4 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] Num10ck 1 points 10 hours ago

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.