What is the best post sort for Lemmy?

All, Top 6 hours. Keeps me fairly up on things. If I feel like I'm hitting the same stuff, I'll switch to Hot or Active.

All, Everything, sorted by Newest Comment.

This is objectively the best. Anyone who says otherwise is very, very wrong. 😌

Subscribed and top 12 hours is what I've been going by for about a year now. After I've scrolled through that I switch to "all" from which I've blocked all the communities I'm not interested about.

Scaled was a game-changer for me.

I use scaled on web. Voyager can remember your sorts for different communities. I typically to use new for smaller communities and scaled for larger ones and the home feed.

I always read subscribed communities by new.

Subscribed - New

All the first comments saying they browse by new... 🤔

Scaled. But I wish there was a way to see all unread posts sorted oldest to newest.

New.

You get to see stuff early, you get less repeats, you have more chances at lucking into good conversations because you can comment and be way more likely to be seen, thus upping the chances of setting the vibe for any responses as opposed to jumping into stuff that's already ongoing.

Plus, in most apps, you can tell when you're back to things you've already seen easier. You don't run across a post that's marked read and have to keep scrolling anyway.

Now the downside is that you see the bad stuff early too. And, if you don't want to engage and would rather be able to leave short comments that only OP will see, it's harder.

I've tried all the sort methods, and only new gives me the kind of experience I enjoy.

New then active

Scaled. Though your feed will be filled with posts from the same community if that community suddenly started posting lots of posts and is a new one. It happened to me with !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone

I like Top of the last 6 hours. In the Old Place I did Top of the last hour, but it's a little slower here. If I can't bear to read the article (too often these days) I can go straight to the comments and there will be some. If I run out of blue posts, or want to catch an unfolding event, I switch to Hot.

I personally enjoy "new comments", it's a mix of new posts and recently commented on posts

My favorites are

• New or New Comments for Home
• Scaled or Top 6 hours for All

Always Top 6 Hours or Top Day. Never hot. Not sure what the deal with hot is, but I agree it feels wrong.

I went by scaled on my previous instance because I enjoy seeing small communities posts as well and they easily drown otherwise.
However piefed doesn't have that sorting :(

As some other people suggested, I can also add vote to scaled, especially on subscribed communities.

I don't spend that much time on lemmy and smaller communities don't get attention in my feed otherwise. With scaled they pop up pretty often.

Oh wow. There are so many completely different opinions. Looks like the right answer is that there is no answer. Try all of them to find out what you like. Everyone seems to like something different, so my preferred sorting (which BTW is objectively the best one) might not be the one you like.

Subscribed, top of the day, at the same time of day, every day.

I do All - Scaled. I'll switch to New if I feel like I'm seeing a lot of repeat content. I've had to block a few bots (the reddit reposters are particularly egregious) and communities I don't really care for.

I switched to "new comments" a while ago and have no desire to go back to anything else.

Hot, top 6 hours and new comments

So far scaled seems nice to get the little ones higher up. AFAIK you can't pre-make custom lists as some communities are perhaps more fun if you go for newest (comments) but then the small ones might get lost in the chaos.

Ideally, I would set scaled top 6-hours or something?

I check active/hot interchangeably, and then use the 1 hour/6 hour/12 hour filters, depending on how long it's been since I last opened the app