Active seems to show the posts that people are commenting on, whereas Hot seems to be better for showing newer content.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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I’ve been primarily sorting by new. While on other sites I don’t like sorting by new because you’ll see 90% low-quality posts, Lemmy is small and passionate enough that nearly all posts will be good quality.
All and local have been pretty... Bad for me.
I don't hate having fun or memes or NSFW or whatever, but that's not what I'm looking at right now. So I'd like to just hide some communities from my view.
I never used all/popular on Reddit, but Lemmy is small enough to do so. I'd just like to avoid some things.
That's 100% valid. I've subscribed to a TON of communities already so I spend most of my time looking at new subscribed posts. I could see why the new posts on all would not be ideal.
just got remined to sort by new, so new now.
Thank you - also "new", as of now!
I keep it on Active, but I have “Show read posts” unticked, so posts i voted on don’t show up again
mine is: subscribed + new comment.
subscribed because I can control what I saw on homepage and new comment because "new comment" not only include old post with new comment, but also freshly created post.
I always sort new, check subscribed first and all second. Sometimes I check all and active. I keep adding communities as I find them, so I'm sure at some point I'll be fine with just subscribed new.
Top Day, New, Active
Sorting All , new and new comment. Has being super fun.
At the moment after sleeping I usually sort All and Hot or Active just too see what has being popping while i was offline. But throughout the day is New and New Comment. But that's because I really am enjoying participating more than lurking.
I sort by new and selecting to show all posts (instead of only the posts of your instance) helps to keep my feed fresh always + I get to know new communities.
Having the same problem, but I think I read somewhere they are working on fixing it?
Because it keeps resetting to Active and Local after a while, so I also keep seeing the same posts.
There's also an option in your profile options that changes your default sort
I did this and the option didn’t stick.
I personally always sort by "new" as no other method has ever really made much sense to me
Make sure to uncheck "show read posts" in your settings. That way stuff you've already seen/up voted/read will make way for new things
My problem is that the most popular comms in my subscriptions dominate my feed over anything else. The algorithm really needs to be tweaked to show a good mix of every subscription feed.
On desktop, I made a shortcut to my subscribed communities sorted by new. I did the same with Firefox Android