Im personally a "New" enjoyer.
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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Thank you for your contribution based new sorter.
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I forget that we aren't using the "other" place where sorting by new is terrible
Being a smaller platform where the points don't matter does make the "new" experience more enjoyable.
reading from top(6H) right now
I'm using top in 12 hours, which fits better when you browse in the morning and in the evening.
I use 6h because I apparently have no life
I believe that it should be the other way around.
You have too much life, so you frivolously spend it on Lemmy.
Those with no life don't have time for their own interests and hobbies.
That aside, understandable, have a good day.
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I feel validated
I like how people without any prompt all came to the same conclusion.
The only thing I see now are memes. That's what I dislike currently about Lemmy. People aren't active in other communities most of the time. I am not here to enjoy a instagram-like feed, I am here to read and discuss, like in the forums.
This is one thing that Lemmy REALLY needs to work on. The hobby- and topic-specific communities need to grow. Lemmy is currently dominated by like 5-10 communities, which is fine, but it really falls short of the experience I had on Reddit in that regard.
In order for niche communities to have a sustainable flow of content, you need a massive amount of users overall. Another obstacle is that niche communities can't grow much because with barely anyone in them, nobody has any reason to go to them.
I am pretty excited to slowly repost all my old content here over the course of several months to reap all those fake internet points again. It isn't reposting if it is a new website.
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My Fediverse experience became exponentially superior once I learned that the default sorting options were a bit shite compared to the alternatives.
Lol
I do 6, 12, and 24 hours based on how long it was since I last browsed lemmy
Based chronomaxxing
I'm still not sure what's the difference between Hot and Active. ELI5, anybody?
Active means most comments in recent time, Hot means most upvotes in recent times
What's the difference between Hot and Top?
Hot prefers newer posts that are gaining votes and comments. Top prefers the most votes within a specific timeframe.
The Lemmy documentation explains the different sort options pretty well: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
The difference between "Hot" and "Active" is probably the most confusing to most users.
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I wish Hot had a bit less post decay, it would be close to perfect then. Active doesn't surface new posts often enough for me
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I swap between top 24/12/6 depending on how long I'm away.
6 gets shitty because you start getting the random porn pretty quickly.
When you sort by hot in public and scroll past hardcore porn in public.
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Thank you !. I was trying to find a noob's guide to Lemmy.
A tip if you're used to old reddit and use desktop, check out old.lemmy.world. It as a dark mode like reddit enhancement suite adds to old reddit, and everything is exactly where I expect it to be based on my reddit experience. Since you're already using a lemmy.world account, it'll just work for you straight away.
Oh and also, you'll see that you can list things as "all," "local," or "subscribed." You can pretty much ignore local, and use all or subscribed as your main page.
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This was the very top of my “top 6 hours” feed. Checks out 
Is active really that bad? 😭. What am I doing wrong?
"This flu in China might be really bad" - 3 years ago
"A new breakthrough that's shaking physics to its core" - 4 years ago
"Trump may not get away with it this time" - 2 years ago
Aww yeah, the feed is lit tonight! Something new to read!
It's easy for really old posts to get necro'd in Active sort. Not necessarily a bad thing, but if you use the "feed" to keep up with the latest then it'll cloud your listings a bit. A lot of people don't look at the post date right away (especially those of us from alien site since we're still operating on old habits).
Hot also had a bug that pushed old posts up, IIRC? Maybe i'm thinking of Active; I can't remember off the top of my head as I type this. Anyway I think Active is based on recent comment activity and Hot is based on recent voting activity. Nothing wrong with either, but I am honestly appreciating the "Top X hours" methods to keep up with recent news and events and to keep things fresh.
We're still in the "oh shit activity has increased by a factor of a thousand, we need to make the database not crash" phase of development of Lemmy (and kbin) so I'd expect that eventually the feed sorts will be looked at and tweaked. Just needs a bit of attention to get what you are looking for at the moment.
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Hot has been getting better, but yeah, active sucks
Active is literally showing posts from 2-3 days ago
I tried it and your meme disappeared. I had to go back to hot to find it. 🤔
The fact that I'm still seeing this at the top of my "Top (Twelve Hours)" means you're probably right? lol
This meme improved my experience, excellent job.
I always start with my Home/Frontpage/Subscribed feed on New. Then, when Ive exhausted that (since I'm a lemmy addict) I switch to All - New. That's usually enough for me. If my soul still desires content I switch to All - Hot. Your All feed can be pretty good if you block certain communities.
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