Hot, top 6 hours and new comments
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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.
I use Top 12, only need to check once a day.
I just wish it would prioritize the top from the last 6 hours while showing older stuff below. Because slower communities feel dead when you visit and see no posts (even if there was one seven hours ago).
Subscribed - New
All, Everything, sorted by Newest Comment.
This is objectively the best. Anyone who says otherwise is very, very wrong. 😌
This is how I do it but be aware voting through this method leads to shitty mods banning you under the pretence of drive by voting. Doesn’t stop me but just FYI.
The fuck kind of reason is that?
Their justification is you’re not a participant in the community, yet you’re voting. Of course theres 0 reflection on the content coming out of their ~~subs~~ comm and it has no weight in the decision.
For brigading I can understand but a couple of mods have a very low bar for it. One banned me recently because of it. Likely because two low effort post made it to all in a short window from a meat base comm. I’ve downvoted vegan post more often back in the early days and they dgaf.
while bans are not something i’ve done, i’ve noticed a lot of downvotes in !shittyasklemmy@lemmy.uhhoh.com from people that clearly haven’t checked what community the post is in
For that comm I could see users downvoting it for a lot of the post being negative/rants but yeah it does happen when it isn’t deserved unfortunately. I just don’t think banning should be a knee jerk response as other mods have done.
Funnily enough I was just banned and blocked by a mod when I commented on a post mentioning that they've accidentally reposted an image they've already submitted. Kind of surprised since I recognized the username and thought they were decent enough as a user.
Mods watching votes is creepy
I would be surprised if they haven’t automated it at this point. I’ve been meaning to post about it since it’s reeks of vote manipulation to me but I’ll give it some more time first.
i do this and i block/filter sources that give too much stuff i don't want to see, like the 196*
Ayy, this is the way (and once you view enough you switch to hot and then to active, then you exit and return in ~40seconds and start over)
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.
2nd.
Scaled. But I wish there was a way to see all unread posts sorted oldest to newest.
I personally enjoy "new comments", it's a mix of new posts and recently commented on posts
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.
What is Scaled, precious?
Scaled takes smaller communities into account and bumps their posts up so they don't get buried by posts from larger communities with more engagement.
Edit: here are the descriptions:
Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time.
Hot: Like active, but uses time when the post was published.
Scaled: Like hot, but gives a boost to less active communities
Thank you, sounds interesting!
I always read subscribed communities by new.
All the first comments saying they browse by new... 🤔
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
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
Plus one for new it helps push up new posts from new people engaging with the platform.
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’m a hottie.
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 :(
Scaled
Always Top 6 Hours or Top Day. Never hot. Not sure what the deal with hot is, but I agree it feels wrong.
Hot, but once a day I check Top-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.
Subscribed, top of the day, at the same time of day, every day.
My favorites are
- New or New Comments for Home
- Scaled or Top 6 hours for All
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.
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?
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.
I switched to "new comments" a while ago and have no desire to go back to anything else.
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
My default is hot for subscribed, although i should also try scaled to show smaller communities.
And if I hit posts I recently browsed, I changed it up to Top 12 hours or top of day for all to see some 'newer' things.
I wasn't sure early on but found those worked well for me.