c/youshouldknow · by Irelephant@lemm.ee · 1y

YSK: If the frontpage constantly looks like the same 5 - 8 posts, try sorting by "Hot".

Lemmy's default sort is "Active", which means that the most active threads will stay at the top of the frontpage, which can make the same few threads stay for ages. It does give the impression that lemmy is more active though.

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lordnikon@lemmy.world · 90 pts · 1y (7 replies)

Sort by new and push good content up

Irelephant@lemm.ee · 21 pts · 1y

I do that as well.

miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

This is the way.

CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

This is the way.

can@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y

scaled is my favourite

Scaled: Like hot, but gives a boost to less active communities

SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Make sure you push down Monk and his army of side characters too.

lordnikon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I love Adrian Monk, he is my favorite TV detective.

Infynis@midwest.social · 4 pts · 1y

Top - Past 6 Hours is what I prefer. Keeps it fresh, but filters out a little of the spam

the_kung_fu_emu@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 1y (7 replies)

I'm a fan of "Top six hour" it refreshes often enough to see intersting tidbits throughout the day but not so much that I'm checking every twenty minutes!

lunarul@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

Sometimes it's been a while since I last checked the feed and I go for Top 12 hours

troybot@midwest.social · 5 pts · 1y

Top comment was sponsored by Top Six Hour Gang

XeroxCool@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Just tried that and scrolled through seen posts until it ended. I expected it to start off with hottest of the last 6 hours, but is it only the last 6 hours? I guess I don't have enough communities

Not_mikey@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Yeah, it's the top posts that were posted in the last six hours. Unless you have a pretty wide sub list it's usually better if you do it for everything/all, eg. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=TopSixHour . Otherwise top 12 hour or top day is usually good

XeroxCool@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Thanks. I'll take it as a jump off to diversify again. I stuck to joined communities because my feed was getting steamrolled by dumb, socially adverse, or majorly irrelevant communities. My original communities probably also died off, too.

jagged_circle@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I do "top day" because its not healthy to check this shit more than once per day.

the_kung_fu_emu@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Oh lord don't I know it!

Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 1y

Could also try sorting by top 6 hour.

rimu@piefed.social · 16 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Active is the worst one I have no idea why it's the default.

Irelephant@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

It gives the illusion of more people being on lemmy.

AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space · 13 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Personally, I like "Scaled" and "Hot" the most, but I also check "New" to discover communities that may otherwise get lost (and, to ban spam/bot/troll accounts along the way as well) - and lastly, I also have a look at "Top/Day" at least once a day, to see what's the "talk of the town".

It definitely feels like we had some growth in proper, organic activity. Just a few months ago, it definitely felt like "Top/12hrs" was the best one for the amount of content that was being posted. But for a while now, "Hot" and "Scaled" feel much better than that one.

huppakee@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

Scaled gives me some super niche posts with two or three upvotes sandwiched between the same posts I see when I sort by active, which is not always bad but not necessarily what I want either. If I feel like I need content I go for new or top 6/12/24 hr.

thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org · 11 pts · 1y

i usually do hot / subscribed and if I run dry, i do all

and if that runs dry, i do scales... sometimes I will try other stuff but that's usually good enough

Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Also use the hide read posts setting

exasperation@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

Depends on how you want to use Lemmy. When using it as a link aggregator, you'd probably want to hide the stuff you've already clicked on. But as a discussion forum, it doesn't hurt to go back to threads you've already seen to see what new comments have been made since.

Lumiluz@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1y (3 replies)

They still come back

Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

They do not. Are you using Sync for Lemmy? It's broken and doesn't hide properly

Lumiluz@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Voyager. I've had the issue since always

Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

Might be worth bringing it up in the voyager community. That definitely shouldn't be the case.

ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Also if you don't want to manually switch it all the time, go into your account settings and change the sort type to whatever you prefer. Similar should apply in apps, with a bonus: some apps will let you change default comment sort setting as well.

AlexisFR@jlai.lu · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

But then you'll be flooded by 0 comments posts.

Irelephant@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Maybe if you sort by new. Try sorting by "new comments"

AlexisFR@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 1y

Sorting by hot also does that. It's just broken.

emb@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y