I just searched for some of the bigger servers, opened the communities tab and subbed every community I found remotely interesting. Was about 2-3h of work.
The only thing I see now are memes.
That's what I dislike currently about Lemmy.
People aren't active in other communities most of the time.
I am not here to enjoy a instagram-like feed, I am here to read and discuss, like in the forums.
This is one thing that Lemmy REALLY needs to work on. The hobby- and topic-specific communities need to grow. Lemmy is currently dominated by like 5-10 communities, which is fine, but it really falls short of the experience I had on Reddit in that regard.
In order for niche communities to have a sustainable flow of content, you need a massive amount of users overall. Another obstacle is that niche communities can't grow much because with barely anyone in them, nobody has any reason to go to them.
I am pretty excited to slowly repost all my old content here over the course of several months to reap all those fake internet points again. It isn't reposting if it is a new website.
that won't change until the site expands enough to populate the smaller communities you are personally interested in and they fix the hot algorithm to be like reddits. right now hot is like rising, so it's useless for finding the best content from the day. also problems with federating content from 12 copies of the same exact community copied to 8 instances fighting for the front page makes it even more stale.
Ok I came back ! It's truly a life changing trick, approved. I've also experimented with top 12h, and it's giving me good results too. Maybe switching to 24h in the future.
I assume you're just joking, but does that feature even exist in any Lemmy clients? Seems like the number of servers that don't allow downvotes would make it useless anyway.
I'm the kind of person thats comfortable with scrolling past hardcore porn on a crowded bus. I'm not a religious man, it's just nature taking it's course.
In the city worst things than that have happened and no one bats an eye. I've seen a homeless man wash his junk in the quick trip sink. I've seen a crate of homemade molotov cocktails just setting on the front porch. I've witnessed someone pull a gun out on someone else just for honking in traffic.
Nah, dont worry about it, its no problem. Just pointed out that i thought it was kinda random.
If yah wanna keep talking then i can hear ya. Cities can be kinda wild sometimes. The one im at right now has had wild shit happened like bombings on multiple gas stations in the same day. A bridge was taken by the river with people on it and i once took a buss and it ran over a biker in a motorcicle.
A tip if you're used to old reddit and use desktop, check out old.lemmy.world. It as a dark mode like reddit enhancement suite adds to old reddit, and everything is exactly where I expect it to be based on my reddit experience. Since you're already using a lemmy.world account, it'll just work for you straight away.
Oh and also, you'll see that you can list things as "all," "local," or "subscribed." You can pretty much ignore local, and use all or subscribed as your main page.
It's easy for really old posts to get necro'd in Active sort. Not necessarily a bad thing, but if you use the "feed" to keep up with the latest then it'll cloud your listings a bit. A lot of people don't look at the post date right away (especially those of us from alien site since we're still operating on old habits).
Hot also had a bug that pushed old posts up, IIRC? Maybe i'm thinking of Active; I can't remember off the top of my head as I type this. Anyway I think Active is based on recent comment activity and Hot is based on recent voting activity. Nothing wrong with either, but I am honestly appreciating the "Top X hours" methods to keep up with recent news and events and to keep things fresh.
We're still in the "oh shit activity has increased by a factor of a thousand, we need to make the database not crash" phase of development of Lemmy (and kbin) so I'd expect that eventually the feed sorts will be looked at and tweaked. Just needs a bit of attention to get what you are looking for at the moment.
Honestly that makes a ton of sense to me. The only real/sort of real problem I have with the sort from the "last X hours" is that I feel like as someone who doesn't regularly check the site I would miss a lot of posts I wouldn't normally see. That's just my perspective. Thanks for the insight though.
I always start with my Home/Frontpage/Subscribed feed on New. Then, when Ive exhausted that (since I'm a lemmy addict) I switch to All - New. That's usually enough for me. If my soul still desires content I switch to All - Hot. Your All feed can be pretty good if you block certain communities.
Top 12h for All, New for Local(small, country specific instance).
Who use Active anyway? I have no idea what's that for. Because it looks and function very similar to New Comment. Hot is just New but also...Active? Because it will show both new content and also post from days or even weeks ago lol
Incidentally, certain sorts have more porn than others. Active has less, hot has more, and that's probably due to the fact that it's stupid to comment on porn posts. With timed sorts, you can also get some sorts with more or less of it.
Im personally a "New" enjoyer.
Thank you for your contribution based new sorter.
Based
"New" for subscribed, top6h for everything
I would love a hybrid of my subscriptions and top posts. I'm still settling in from Reddit and I'm still to find out what's out there.
Getting to grips with how to search for and find communities.
I just searched for some of the bigger servers, opened the
communitiestab and subbed every community I found remotely interesting. Was about 2-3h of work.I forget that we aren't using the "other" place where sorting by new is terrible
Being a smaller platform where the points don't matter does make the "new" experience more enjoyable.
reading from top(6H) right now
I'm using top in 12 hours, which fits better when you browse in the morning and in the evening.
I use 6h because I apparently have no life
I believe that it should be the other way around.
You have too much life, so you frivolously spend it on Lemmy.
Those with no life don't have time for their own interests and hobbies.
That aside, understandable, have a good day.
I switch it based on circumstances. 12h in morning, 6h by noonish, 1h or new by 3pm.
I found you on Hot!
I found it on top 6 hours
I appreciate how deeply weird Hot is. Doesn’t take much scrolling before I see posts from months ago.
Same!
I feel validated
I like how people without any prompt all came to the same conclusion.
The only thing I see now are memes. That's what I dislike currently about Lemmy. People aren't active in other communities most of the time. I am not here to enjoy a instagram-like feed, I am here to read and discuss, like in the forums.
This is one thing that Lemmy REALLY needs to work on. The hobby- and topic-specific communities need to grow. Lemmy is currently dominated by like 5-10 communities, which is fine, but it really falls short of the experience I had on Reddit in that regard.
In order for niche communities to have a sustainable flow of content, you need a massive amount of users overall. Another obstacle is that niche communities can't grow much because with barely anyone in them, nobody has any reason to go to them.
I am pretty excited to slowly repost all my old content here over the course of several months to reap all those fake internet points again. It isn't reposting if it is a new website.
that won't change until the site expands enough to populate the smaller communities you are personally interested in and they fix the hot algorithm to be like reddits. right now hot is like rising, so it's useless for finding the best content from the day. also problems with federating content from 12 copies of the same exact community copied to 8 instances fighting for the front page makes it even more stale.
My Fediverse experience became exponentially superior once I learned that the default sorting options were a bit shite compared to the alternatives.
Lol
I do 6, 12, and 24 hours based on how long it was since I last browsed lemmy
Based chronomaxxing
What's the difference between Hot and Top?
Hot prefers newer posts that are gaining votes and comments. Top prefers the most votes within a specific timeframe.
The Lemmy documentation explains the different sort options pretty well: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
The difference between "Hot" and "Active" is probably the most confusing to most users.
Getting bad gateway on the link but thanks for sharing it. I'll check it later.
Active means most comments in recent time, Hot means most upvotes in recent times
Trying this out brb
Haven't heard back yet...
Ok I came back ! It's truly a life changing trick, approved. I've also experimented with top 12h, and it's giving me good results too. Maybe switching to 24h in the future.
I wish Hot had a bit less post decay, it would be close to perfect then. Active doesn't surface new posts often enough for me
I assume you're just joking, but does that feature even exist in any Lemmy clients? Seems like the number of servers that don't allow downvotes would make it useless anyway.
Drama addicts are gonna have to find another teat upon which to suckle.
They could always create their own vicious cycle.
This is something that could be added to a client some day even if it won't work on some instances. I'd use it on occasion.
It wouldn't work on posts with more than 50 comments, unfortunately. That's something the back-end has to offer.
... unless the client decides to proxy all calls and make its own aggregate...
Sync user: So far sync is unable to
Every single Sync for Lemmy post at the top
I swap between top 24/12/6 depending on how long I'm away.
6 gets shitty because you start getting the random porn pretty quickly.
When you sort by hot in public and scroll past hardcore porn in public.
Turn of nsfw
I'm the kind of person thats comfortable with scrolling past hardcore porn on a crowded bus. I'm not a religious man, it's just nature taking it's course.
Good for you i guess. Just dont get berated by some annoying lady thats behind ya or wathever.
In the city worst things than that have happened and no one bats an eye. I've seen a homeless man wash his junk in the quick trip sink. I've seen a crate of homemade molotov cocktails just setting on the front porch. I've witnessed someone pull a gun out on someone else just for honking in traffic.
Ok..? I dont think that has anything to do with scrolling past porn in public but wattever.
Idk, I don't know why it's a problem for you and I don't really care. I'm kinda bored of the subject anyway.😁
Nah, dont worry about it, its no problem. Just pointed out that i thought it was kinda random. If yah wanna keep talking then i can hear ya. Cities can be kinda wild sometimes. The one im at right now has had wild shit happened like bombings on multiple gas stations in the same day. A bridge was taken by the river with people on it and i once took a buss and it ran over a biker in a motorcicle.
Or use a client with a blur setting
I like to live on the wild side! 😉
Thank you !. I was trying to find a noob's guide to Lemmy.
A tip if you're used to old reddit and use desktop, check out old.lemmy.world. It as a dark mode like reddit enhancement suite adds to old reddit, and everything is exactly where I expect it to be based on my reddit experience. Since you're already using a lemmy.world account, it'll just work for you straight away.
Oh and also, you'll see that you can list things as "all," "local," or "subscribed." You can pretty much ignore local, and use all or subscribed as your main page.
This! Lemmy became so much comfortable by using old.lemmy.world, almost all withdrawal symptoms went away.
Is active really that bad? 😭. What am I doing wrong?
"This flu in China might be really bad" - 3 years ago
"A new breakthrough that's shaking physics to its core" - 4 years ago
"Trump may not get away with it this time" - 2 years ago
Aww yeah, the feed is lit tonight! Something new to read!
It's easy for really old posts to get necro'd in Active sort. Not necessarily a bad thing, but if you use the "feed" to keep up with the latest then it'll cloud your listings a bit. A lot of people don't look at the post date right away (especially those of us from alien site since we're still operating on old habits).
Hot also had a bug that pushed old posts up, IIRC? Maybe i'm thinking of Active; I can't remember off the top of my head as I type this. Anyway I think Active is based on recent comment activity and Hot is based on recent voting activity. Nothing wrong with either, but I am honestly appreciating the "Top X hours" methods to keep up with recent news and events and to keep things fresh.
We're still in the "oh shit activity has increased by a factor of a thousand, we need to make the database not crash" phase of development of Lemmy (and kbin) so I'd expect that eventually the feed sorts will be looked at and tweaked. Just needs a bit of attention to get what you are looking for at the moment.
Honestly that makes a ton of sense to me. The only real/sort of real problem I have with the sort from the "last X hours" is that I feel like as someone who doesn't regularly check the site I would miss a lot of posts I wouldn't normally see. That's just my perspective. Thanks for the insight though.
This was the very top of my “top 6 hours” feed. Checks out
Hot has been getting better, but yeah, active sucks
Active is literally showing posts from 2-3 days ago
Active randomly shows me stuff from 2-3 years ago lol
Hot does for me as well if I scroll far enough, really weird, but I just use 12/6h sorts and it works well enough
I tried it and your meme disappeared. I had to go back to hot to find it. 🤔
This meme improved my experience, excellent job.
The fact that I'm still seeing this at the top of my "Top (Twelve Hours)" means you're probably right? lol
I always start with my Home/Frontpage/Subscribed feed on New. Then, when Ive exhausted that (since I'm a lemmy addict) I switch to All - New. That's usually enough for me. If my soul still desires content I switch to All - Hot. Your All feed can be pretty good if you block certain communities.
Yup, best way to browse is All by New, then block anything you don't like to see, that way you won't miss any new communities that pops up.
Mfw this is the first post on my 6 hour feed
Top 12h for All, New for Local(small, country specific instance).
Who use Active anyway? I have no idea what's that for. Because it looks and function very similar to New Comment. Hot is just New but also...Active? Because it will show both new content and also post from days or even weeks ago lol
Incidentally, certain sorts have more porn than others. Active has less, hot has more, and that's probably due to the fact that it's stupid to comment on porn posts. With timed sorts, you can also get some sorts with more or less of it.
Some (me) like it Hot!
We have a (wo)man of culture here.
Holy shit thank you! THANK YOU!
I didn't know this was an option!
THANK YOU!!!!
i sort by 'new comments' by default. makes me feel like i'm on ye olde forums, and i am mostly here for discussion more than anything.
This is 100% true. Only problem is when I then go to instance and see 1 post.
Sorted by top 6h. This was my third post. Am not disappoint.
Yes but also no, it's mostly just memes. Pretty disappointing
This is what I use. it would be nice to have some other times. For me like 2, 4 and 6 hours would do it.
My go-to on kbin, during the day: https://kbin.social/sub/top/3h
Thank you!
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just use the home tab on posts
I miss controversial, you get actual posts then and not just bots handshaking the most milquetoast replies