Top -> 6 hours
i like the new comment sort since it’s like a hybrid of new and active. yes, 0 comment posts will show up there.
New comment gives me too many really old posts, like 3 to 7 days old, and there aren’t all that many new comments on them, if you get the posts in the first 6 hours or so you are more likely to get more engagement, which is often the idea unless you are fishing for interesting articles.
i appreciate the old ones! it’s interesting to see why someone would revive an old post, and there are some (usually active community drama) that can keep going for days and wouldn’t show up anywhere else.
it occurs to me this most closely mimics old web forum sorts.
All top 6 hrs. I usually browse Lemmy twice a day and it tends to let me see most everything.
Same. All, either Top 6 or Top 12, with the occasional Top 24 (Today) if I’ve been busy and feel I need to catch up.
Some days I do too much Lemmy scrolling, so i keep it at top 12h so i am less likely to hit the bottom.
The bottom is kind of fun though, it gets weird.
i cycle between this and new comments, good mix of heavy hitters and diverse diaspora
Same! However I’m starting to find there is now a lot more content and I could actually start using joined communities instead of /all
Home by new. All by top 6h
New | All
A great way to find new and interesting content only if you’ve got a good block list set up.
What do you mean block list? Why block who? I haven’t blocked anyone. If someone is a dick I either be a dick back and or ignore them, works for me.
Or are you blocking types of posts? Because there is a lot of dumb like naked pictures bot posted from reddit, if I want porn I’ve better places to find it, and don’t have to worry about accidently clicking on a picture I don’t want to see so much.
Block lists meaning communities, instances and filter words.
Also a good way to start building or expanding the aforementioned block list
This is the best way to see what’s there. Then, get a block list started.
What kind of people set their default feed sort to old 😭
If you want to see everything and also arrive at a thread already populated with good juicy comments.
First commenters are always “new”😆
Scaled | Subscribed
I find this effectively acts as “new” for small communities, and “hot” for big ones.
Hot, then new
Sounds like it might be a good dating strategy too.
then new.
Dating strategy
This one right here FBI…
Oh… Right… the FBI doesn’t care about that stuff anymore.
Top 6 hours
New, Subscribed
New: There’s a limited enough amount of content presently being submitted in the areas that I’m interested in that I don’t feel the need to try to use votes to filter out things. It’s not impossible that I’d move to something that accounts for votes in the long run, but it’s not enough of a torrent yet.
Subscribed: I don’t believe that trying to view All and then blacklisting everything that you don’t want scales well. People can add communities all the time, and inevitably — there’s a huge amount of stuff out there — a lot of it isn’t stuff that I’m going to be interested in. It’s like trying to blacklist the Internet — means a constant game of whack-a-mole. Also, “All” will only see communities that are either local to your home instance or where another user on your home instance has already subscribed to things, so especially on smaller instances, you may never see something that you’re interested in that someone does create. I follow !newcommunities@lemmy.world, !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and hit https://lemmyverse.net/communities occasionally to find new communities of interest.
Whatever is set as default for Voyager (I think it’s active)
New, on my subscribed communities
I’m not using Lemmy, but my default sort is set to “Active”. Gives me the most interesting feed imo. Well, comments use “hot”.
That said, I don’t usually browse. I have a bunch of users and communities set to notify me on new posts, and I usually already get too many notifications that I don’t also feel like browsing the site after looking at them all. Really changed my view of how active the fediverse is.
Hot for posts, but new for comments. Lets me catch good comments that come later in a post’s life
Great idea. I’m gonna use that.
