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submitted 1 year ago by god@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I find that Hot and Active give you really old stuff, at least on my instance, that's like 3-7 days old stuff. New is just new, you know new, no community-assured quality. Top is stuff I've already seen. Where do I get a better feed? Can we have like Top 7 hours? Or a mixture of "top 16 hours" and "active"?

What do you do when browsing Lemmy? What are some of your strategies to get good shit while being here? Cuz so far if I try and use the front pages I get bored to shit.

The way I get anything barely worth interacting with from the front page is New Comments. Not the best, but better than the other options I discussed.

That or just, instead of interacting with a lot of stuff, interacting deeply with the few things I find that I like.

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[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

First, this isn't reddit, sort by Subscribed / New.

Second, subscribe to stuff and don't be afraid to subscribe at the same time to smaller communities on other instances. Yes, you cannot group them by topic Yet™, but it's on the road map.

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Following up:

Third: Don't lurk! We need content here. Be a contributor, and don't worry about what people think. Sieze your moment, and cry, "FIRST! I posted that here."

[-] god@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

:) I have thought that, and then I forget it, then I think about it again, it's hard not to fall back to lurker. Then again, I do provide a shitton of content a lot of the time, I just haven't gotten the hang of doing it even more!

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bruh you're talking to God@sh.itjust.works. He couldn't lurk if he were paid a million bucks to do so. This dude has shit to say.

[-] god@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

<3 was i noticed

or wasnt i

or was i

🌻 taking petals out of this flower to find out

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Man you got almost 500 comments and 50 posts in 10 days. And you're funny. You're putting me to shame and I've really been trying.

Btw you ever watch My Mister?

[-] god@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

You’re putting me to shame and I’ve really been trying.

😳

well i didn't know it was hard, maybe i'm just a shitposter cuz i don't think about it much, i just go for it, and i try not to leave any comment unanswered, even if the answer is only partial. i do have some training in shitpostery. It was at the shitposter special forces on steemit.com where you got money for shitposting a shitton. I guess I kept the habit of never shutting up cuz that's what brings dem monies over there.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Lmao hey man, whatever works. Sh.itpost away if it's stimulating engagement on this platform. We gotta get to at least a million users before I start to relax and feel like Lemmy is here to stay

[-] god@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't but if you say it's good i'll watch it. It's on my recommended list sometimes but there's just so much in it that it's not owo. brb someone prayed for me

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago
[-] god@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

you voted with your silence!!!! i am the ruler of all, why didn't you say anything 1 quintillion years ago when i declared myself king of existence? now it is too late, you should've spoken up, this is a democracy after all 🥰

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Sigh. Shem, bubby... I was there too.

[-] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

I know there are plenty of fixes coming in the next version of Lemmy, and maybe some of these sorting issues will be....ahem....sorted out with that.

[-] writeblankspace@geddit.social 3 points 1 year ago

I just realized that this post was 16 days ago...

[-] god@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Lmao some smaller instances still have fucked front pages but the bigger ones are solved already. You're gonna have to either find a strat that works for you or move around to test stuff.

[-] J_C___@lemmy.place 1 points 1 year ago
[-] boothin@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Isn't it just that the hot algorithm freezes and stops updating? https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076
I'm on kbin and the hot sorting works and it's great for checking a few times a day since it actually updates

[-] god@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

MAYBE SO, cuz i have the exact same things lol. maybe that's the reason 😅 i was thinking of just making my own frontend to solve it but that's a bit overkill and i'd have to scrape the fuck out of the servers' apis to get better sorting and that's a bit impolite.

[-] FiendishFork@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Sorting by top day helps. I have actually been sorting by new as well. Not as busy here as it is on Reddit, plus generally high quality so new stuff is pretty good.

[-] god@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I've done that, but my new feed, maybe it's a difference in which communities we follow, but my communities' New are not top quality but very eh.

[-] whatyousaidontwitter@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It's a bug, the admin of https://lemm.ee/ has fixed it on their instance. It will probably be fixed for everyone on the next release.

More info -> https://lemm.ee/comment/118526

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I use this URL in a bookmark:

https://lemmy.ml/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/Subscribed/sort/New/page/1

This gives me new posts from my subscribed communities sorted by creation date.

[-] god@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

so new posts from subscribed communities, got it, how many communities do u follow? (i don't need an exact number, just to know whether it's more around 10 or more around 300)

[-] Sleeping@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe it's the communities you're subscribed to. Personally, my front page is pretty filled. Take a look at https://lemmyverse.net/ to see communities from other instances.

[-] god@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

What do you sort by? I'm already following around 40 communities. Maybe it is indeed which communities I follow and maybe I do need to follow more. I'll follow your advice and try to fill it up way more and see if that makes a difference (apart from making New an unreadable mess of fast-scrolling titles)

[-] Sleeping@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I just realized you're on the sh.itjust.works instance, which was defederated from Beehaw so that also doesn't help.

Reference: https://beehaw.org/post/567170

[-] falkerie71@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Beehaw blocked shitjustworks, but not in reverse. I can still see posts from Beehaw, but they won't be able to see our posts, replies, etc.

[-] freeman@lemmy.pub 1 points 1 year ago

I have been sorting by "new comments." which is solid.

Also occaisonally just sorting by new

[-] Xathonn@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy can be sorted by new pretty safely, unlike reddit where you're gonna see some cursed shit sorting all by new

[-] hyper@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Sort by either new or top today

If you’re feeling adventurous select all and sort by new/top today

[-] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

All>new is my fav so far. Lots of stuff I wouldn't have found otherwise.

[-] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 1 points 1 year ago

Sorting by new is working well for me. There may come a day when Lemmy communities have so much content that it's too much for me to browse, but we're not there yet. I'm sure when that day comes, though, Hot and Active will be better methods.

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

What do you do when browsing Lemmy?

As I did with reddit, I sort by new and I follow interesting communities.

3-7 days old stuff

This may be a central problem with modern internet culture. 3-7 days is not old. You just think it is because you're used to being bombarded with new content every minute. It's always bothered me that it's somehow become somewhat of a faux-pas to comment on stuff that was posted more than 24 hours ago - that's ridiculous.

I get bored to shit

Follow better communities. Or do something else.

[-] GankTopPlz@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The idea of link aggregators is to operate like a daily newspaper, not a magazine at a doctors office. I don't want to see the same stories I read all week, I want to see the new things that are happening in the world, and in 2023, things move very fast. I'm still seeing posts about subs starting to close from the begining of the protests.

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.de -1 points 1 year ago

Then maybe you need to follow the RSS feeds of actual news sources.

[-] GankTopPlz@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

the whole point of joining a "sub" is so that the community can gather relevant information on that topic and post it there. then the community also judges that content with the voting system. the goal being that everyone creates various information pipelines relevant to themselves that they then share with the community to form an additional pipeline. it's not like i don't go to direct news sources, but typically i would hear about virtually every topic they cover 12+ hours before on reddit. i typically get more in depth information about the topic, but reddit makes me aware of it nearly instantly.

this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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