I find that Hot and Active give you really old stuff, at least on my instance, that’s like 3-7 days old stuff. New is just new, you know new, no community-assured quality. Top is stuff I’ve already seen. Where do I get a better feed? Can we have like Top 7 hours? Or a mixture of “top 16 hours” and “active”?
What do you do when browsing Lemmy? What are some of your strategies to get good shit while being here? Cuz so far if I try and use the front pages I get bored to shit.
The way I get anything barely worth interacting with from the front page is New Comments. Not the best, but better than the other options I discussed.
That or just, instead of interacting with a lot of stuff, interacting deeply with the few things I find that I like.
Maybe it’s the communities you’re subscribed to. Personally, my front page is pretty filled. Take a look at https://lemmyverse.net/ to see communities from other instances.
Is there a way to sort that avoids bigger communities taking over the feed? I get like 2 pages of 196 posts before I see anything else, because it’s way more active than any of my other subbed magazines.
I generally only get that issue with subscribed new, which is why I generally use subscribed hot
What do you sort by? I’m already following around 40 communities. Maybe it is indeed which communities I follow and maybe I do need to follow more. I’ll follow your advice and try to fill it up way more and see if that makes a difference (apart from making New an unreadable mess of fast-scrolling titles)
I have been sorting by “new comments.” which is solid.
Also occaisonally just sorting by new
Lemmy can be sorted by new pretty safely, unlike reddit where you’re gonna see some cursed shit sorting all by new
this has been my go-to when i’m bored.
I just realized you’re on the sh.itjust.works instance, which was defederated from Beehaw so that also doesn’t help.
Reference: https://beehaw.org/post/567170
Beehaw blocked shitjustworks, but not in reverse. I can still see posts from Beehaw, but they won’t be able to see our posts, replies, etc.
ahh gotcha that makes sense thanks for the correction :)
I use subscribed hot generally. But sometimes I like to do subscribed new.