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The problem is currently that by default it shows active posts, and its been the same posts for days now. What options do you use for sorting when doomscrolling to see interesting content?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve been primarily sorting by new. While on other sites I don’t like sorting by new because you’ll see 90% low-quality posts, Lemmy is small and passionate enough that nearly all posts will be good quality.

[–] RomanRoy 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All and local have been pretty... Bad for me.

I don't hate having fun or memes or NSFW or whatever, but that's not what I'm looking at right now. So I'd like to just hide some communities from my view.

I never used all/popular on Reddit, but Lemmy is small enough to do so. I'd just like to avoid some things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's 100% valid. I've subscribed to a TON of communities already so I spend most of my time looking at new subscribed posts. I could see why the new posts on all would not be ideal.

[–] DrDeadCrash 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a nsfw option in the settings

[–] RomanRoy 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I know, but I have no problem with NSFW, really.

But I want to go ahead and check NSFW when I want to.

My point is I didn't really use popular/all, so I just saw my subs. Right now, it's not that feasible on Lemmy, because the community isn't that large.

But I just found a button to block a given community as an option on Jerboa.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I sort by new and selecting to show all posts (instead of only the posts of your instance) helps to keep my feed fresh always + I get to know new communities.

[–] kabe 7 points 1 year ago

Active seems to show the posts that people are commenting on, whereas Hot seems to be better for showing newer content.

[–] s4if 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

mine is: subscribed + new comment.
subscribed because I can control what I saw on homepage and new comment because "new comment" not only include old post with new comment, but also freshly created post.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I always sort new, check subscribed first and all second. Sometimes I check all and active. I keep adding communities as I find them, so I'm sure at some point I'll be fine with just subscribed new.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

just got remined to sort by new, so new now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you - also "new", as of now!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I personally always sort by "new" as no other method has ever really made much sense to me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Top Day, New, Active

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I keep it on Active, but I have β€œShow read posts” unticked, so posts i voted on don’t show up again

[–] Panda 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having the same problem, but I think I read somewhere they are working on fixing it?

Because it keeps resetting to Active and Local after a while, so I also keep seeing the same posts.

[–] Brunbrun6766 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's also an option in your profile options that changes your default sort

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I did this and the option didn’t stick.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

At least for me, that option doesn't seem to work most of the time.

[–] Panda 1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work at least some of the time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Make sure to uncheck "show read posts" in your settings. That way stuff you've already seen/up voted/read will make way for new things

[–] Ech 4 points 1 year ago

My problem is that the most popular comms in my subscriptions dominate my feed over anything else. The algorithm really needs to be tweaked to show a good mix of every subscription feed.

[–] B4tid0 4 points 1 year ago

Sorting All , new and new comment. Has being super fun.

At the moment after sleeping I usually sort All and Hot or Active just too see what has being popping while i was offline. But throughout the day is New and New Comment. But that's because I really am enjoying participating more than lurking.

[–] fede 2 points 1 year ago

I spent some time following a whole bunch of communities and currently im sorting by new in subscribed. This is how I used to use reddit anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

On desktop, I made a shortcut to my subscribed communities sorted by new. I did the same with Firefox Android