Im personally a “New” enjoyer.
“New” for subscribed, top6h for everything
Thank you for your contribution based new sorter.
reading from top(6H) right now
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.
My Fediverse experience became exponentially superior once I learned that the default sorting options were a bit shite compared to the alternatives.
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
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
Hot definitely needs more tweaking.
Every once in awhile, a post from months or years ago will sneak its way into your feed using Hot.
What’s the difference between Hot and Top?
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.
Getting bad gateway on the link but thanks for sharing it. I’ll check it later.
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.
Trying this out brb
Haven’t heard back yet…
Ok I came back ! It’s truly a life changing trick, approved. I’ve also experimented with top 12h, and it’s giving me good results too. Maybe switching to 24h in the future.
When you sort by hot in public and scroll past hardcore porn in public.
Turn of nsfw
Or use a client with a blur setting
I like to live on the wild side! 😉
I’m the kind of person thats comfortable with scrolling past hardcore porn on a crowded bus. I’m not a religious man, it’s just nature taking it’s course.
Good for you i guess. Just dont get berated by some annoying lady thats behind ya or wathever.
In the city worst things than that have happened and no one bats an eye. I’ve seen a homeless man wash his junk in the quick trip sink. I’ve seen a crate of homemade molotov cocktails just setting on the front porch. I’ve witnessed someone pull a gun out on someone else just for honking in traffic.
Ok…? I dont think that has anything to do with scrolling past porn in public but wattever.
Idk, I don’t know why it’s a problem for you and I don’t really care. I’m kinda bored of the subject anyway.😁
Nah, dont worry about it, its no problem. Just pointed out that i thought it was kinda random. If yah wanna keep talking then i can hear ya. Cities can be kinda wild sometimes. The one im at right now has had wild shit happened like bombings on multiple gas stations in the same day. A bridge was taken by the river with people on it and i once took a buss and it ran over a biker in a motorcicle.
Sorts by controversial
I assume you’re just joking, but does that feature even exist in any Lemmy clients? Seems like the number of servers that don’t allow downvotes would make it useless anyway.
Drama addicts are gonna have to find another teat upon which to suckle.
They could always create their own vicious cycle.
This is something that could be added to a client some day even if it won’t work on some instances. I’d use it on occasion.
It wouldn’t work on posts with more than 50 comments, unfortunately. That’s something the back-end has to offer.
… unless the client decides to proxy all calls and make its own aggregate…
Sync user: So far sync is unable to
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.
This! Lemmy became so much comfortable by using old.lemmy.world, almost all withdrawal symptoms went away.
Is active really that bad? 😭. What am I doing wrong?
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.
Honestly that makes a ton of sense to me. The only real/sort of real problem I have with the sort from the “last X hours” is that I feel like as someone who doesn’t regularly check the site I would miss a lot of posts I wouldn’t normally see. That’s just my perspective. Thanks for the insight though.
“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!
Incidentally, certain sorts have more porn than others. Active has less, hot has more, and that’s probably due to the fact that it’s stupid to comment on porn posts. With timed sorts, you can also get some sorts with more or less of it.
