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What's the best way to sort Lemmy? (self.main)

submitted 2 years ago by TeaEarlGrayHot to c/main

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I've found that "Hot" often gives me posts I have seen days before, same with "Most Comments". So far I've found that "Top Day" is best, but then I lose a lot of posts from my smaller communities

How do you sort your Lemmy instance? Any tips I'm missing?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

New and top.

Hot and Active are bugged in the current version, they are supposed to update a lot more frequently than they currently do.

[–] mars 10 points 2 years ago

I also prefer "New" and "Top Day", but for different community lists:

Local + New for what's going on around lemmy.ca communities
Subscribed + Top Day for the wider Fediverse communities I'm subbed to as a sort of "daily digest"

[–] TeaEarlGrayHot 4 points 2 years ago

That's very good to know, thanks!! Guess I'll keep my eye out for version 18 (iirc)!

[–] stormio 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, you know something is wrong when All + Hot is full of posts from 6 days ago.

EDIT: I don't know if there was a server update last night, but Hot and Active are giving me much fresher results now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So far, I'm a fan of "Newest Comments". Any popular threads tend to bubble up there, but you get a healthy dose of new content as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep. It’s my default sort right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yee it seems like the best for me as well

[–] grte 6 points 2 years ago

Top Day and New Comments are the most useful to me. I think this will probably change as lemmy grows, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I usually search by new and filter by subscriptions. It moves slow enough to keep track of things as they appear.

[–] sinnerdotbin 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, discovery is super frustrating right now. Would love to see a hide feature for both posts and categories. Find a lot of great categories from browsing new, but the majority I would be happy to never see again.

[–] plum 4 points 2 years ago

I have my default set to New Comments, but I’ll manually switch to Top Day and regular New when settling in for a browse.

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