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.

  • SolidGrue@lemmy.world
    352·
    1 year ago

    First, this isn’t reddit, sort by Subscribed / New.

    Second, subscribe to stuff and don’t be afraid to subscribe at the same time to smaller communities on other instances. Yes, you cannot group them by topic Yet™, but it’s on the road map.

    • SolidGrue@lemmy.world
      301·
      1 year ago

      Following up:

      Third: Don’t lurk! We need content here. Be a contributor, and don’t worry about what people think. Sieze your moment, and cry, “FIRST! I posted that here.”

      • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
        112·
        1 year ago

        Bruh you’re talking to God@sh.itjust.works. He couldn’t lurk if he were paid a million bucks to do so. This guy has shit to say.

          • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
            51·
            1 year ago

            you voted with your silence!!! i am the ruler of all, why didn’t you say anything 1 quintillion years ago when i declared myself king of existence? now it is too late, you should’ve spoken up, this is a democracy after all 🥰

        • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
          21·
          1 year ago

          <3 was i noticed

          or wasnt i

          or was i

          🌻 taking petals out of this flower to find out

          • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
            51·
            1 year ago

            Man you got almost 500 comments and 50 posts in 10 days. And you’re funny. You’re putting me to shame and I’ve really been trying.

            Btw you ever watch My Mister?

            • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
              41·
              1 year ago

              You’re putting me to shame and I’ve really been trying.

              😳

              well i didn’t know it was hard, maybe i’m just a shitposter cuz i don’t think about it much, i just go for it, and i try not to leave any comment unanswered, even if the answer is only partial. i do have some training in shitpostery. It was at the shitposter special forces on steemit.com where you got money for shitposting a shitton. I guess I kept the habit of never shutting up cuz that’s what brings dem monies over there.

              • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
                22·
                1 year ago

                Lmao hey man, whatever works. Sh.itpost away if it’s stimulating engagement on this platform. We gotta get to at least a million users before I start to relax and feel like Lemmy is here to stay

                • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
                  0·
                  1 year ago

                  Lol do consider that steem and hive never even got to a million and they stayed. They have had at their top, each, around 60-100k active users per day or month, not very sure. Lemmy is a long way from that, true, but you don’t reaaally need a million to consider a platform stable. Especially one like this that has such fast feedback for your actions. Attention junkies are gonna drown this shit once they find out how rewarding it is to be here. Long story short: don’t worry, we good :)

            • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
              21·
              1 year ago

              I haven’t but if you say it’s good i’ll watch it. It’s on my recommended list sometimes but there’s just so much in it that it’s not owo. brb someone prayed for me

              • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                1 year ago

                I’m not super into kdramas but that’s one of the handful that I watched and something about it resonated with me. Like seriously resonated I was crying like a baby lol

      • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
        2·
        1 year ago

        :) I have thought that, and then I forget it, then I think about it again, it’s hard not to fall back to lurker. Then again, I do provide a shitton of content a lot of the time, I just haven’t gotten the hang of doing it even more!

  • FiendishFork@lemmy.world
    21·
    1 year ago

    Sorting by top day helps. I have actually been sorting by new as well. Not as busy here as it is on Reddit, plus generally high quality so new stuff is pretty good.

    • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’ve done that, but my new feed, maybe it’s a difference in which communities we follow, but my communities’ New are not top quality but very eh.

  • Zamboniman@lemmy.ca
    14·
    1 year ago

    I know there are plenty of fixes coming in the next version of Lemmy, and maybe some of these sorting issues will be…ahem…sorted out with that.

    • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
      11·
      1 year ago

      MAYBE SO, cuz i have the exact same things lol. maybe that’s the reason 😅 i was thinking of just making my own frontend to solve it but that’s a bit overkill and i’d have to scrape the fuck out of the servers’ apis to get better sorting and that’s a bit impolite.

  • hyper
    6·
    1 year ago

    Sort by either new or top today

    If you’re feeling adventurous select all and sort by new/top today

    • Pegatron@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      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)

    • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Lmao some smaller instances still have fucked front pages but the bigger ones are solved already. You’re gonna have to either find a strat that works for you or move around to test stuff.

  • SmugBedBug@lemmy.iswhereits.at
    3·
    1 year ago

    I remember reading that there is a bug with Hot and Active at the moment where older posts keep a high priority for too long. It’s supposed to be addressed in the v.0.18 release in the coming weeks.

    In the meantime, I use New or Top Daily. Not perfect but it gives fresher content.

  • GankTopPlz@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    I have 2 issues with hot/active

    1. What I think are new posts suddenly begin filling the top of my feed closing any images I have open and pushing everything down very quickly. This makes both unusable to me.

    2. The algorithm keeps posts that are days old at the top, witch is the opposite of how I would want my regular feed to work.

    However reddit handles hot seems perfect to me, but im open to small changes that will make discovery a little better or to better integrate instances.

    • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      What I think are new posts suddenly begin filling the top of my feed closing any images I have open and pushing everything down very quickly. This makes both unusable to me

      not on the android app!!!

      However reddit handles hot seems perfect to me, but im open to small changes that will make discovery a little better or to better integrate instances.

      same, that’s why i came here to ask this, i feel that if we can come to a few good ideas we can improve our experience and accept these changes more readily :)

    • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
      11·
      1 year ago

      so new posts from subscribed communities, got it, how many communities do u follow? (i don’t need an exact number, just to know whether it’s more around 10 or more around 300)

  • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    1 year ago

    With the current amount of users sorting by new seems to still work quite well. That’s how I found this thread too.

    • HidingCat@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Really? I’m on kbin too and with hot and all settings I don’t see anything older than 2 hours on the first page.