I’ve seen a few mentions of people feeling like they’re constantly seeing the same content when sorting by active, I’ve since moved to hot, and I’m having a much better time.
The sorting algorithm still needs some work.
Sorting by “Top -> 6 Hours” has been best for me so far
The problem with sorting by hot, at least on my instance, is that I always seem to wind up looking at a post from years ago mixed in with more recent stuff. That’s not a problem per se, but I find myself almost responding to a conversation that happened a long time ago.
Tell your instance admin to restart the Lemmy service every so often. We have ours restart every six hours since that fixes the hot thing breaking and getting stale.
Larger instances might not be able to restart often as it could leave some interactions in limbo.
Seems you also sometimes get resurrected 1Y+ necro posts in ‘Hot’, but otherwise yeah you get a lot more post diversity
I noticed this too but went to lemmyverse.net and subbed to a bunch of new things, and unsubscribed from some memes communities that were posting way too much.
I have default sort of top 6 hours, works well for fresh content.
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Mind if I ask a stupid question? I’m seeing lemm.ee more and more thanks to Memmy displaying it under usernames. How is it different from lemmy.world? Sorry if this should be obvious, still getting used to the fediverse.
It’s understandable to be confused. The easiest way to wrap your head around it is to think of it like the difference between Gmail and Hotmail, they both have the same purpose and do the same thing (showing you emails) but they are on different servers run by different people.
Lemmy.ml – lemmy.world – lemm.ee – etc.
They are all servers that connect together. Some posts, pictures, and profiles are saved to one server, some are saved on another. All of that is accessible between all of them.Gotcha, I think more or less I already understood that much. I meant more so how do they (lemmy.world vs lemm.ee specifically) differentiate from one another?
Is it simply the instances they federate with or is it the ones they block? Is there a “goal” for them worth considering when picking one? I only picked lemmy.world because it was the most popular. Saw that OP is from lemm.ee so thought I’d ask this here.
So for example: I’m somewhat interested in seeing how things go when threads users get included in the fediverse. I saw a post from lemm.ee basically saying they were considering it while another preemptively blocked them.
Sorry if this is too specific lol.
Well you also have to consider the philosophy of your admins. They can block and censor anything for you basically. You might join an instance that removes posts critical of a certain country, etc.
But mostly it’s just about who they defederate
Got it. So why did you pick thelemmy.club?
Actually, I run thelemmy.club
So I get to make all those decisions. I try to be fairly laid back though as I have over 100 users now (though only a dozen or two active ones)
I always sort by All and New. In fact it’s my default feed setting on my Liftoff app.
Same. When I have exhausted my subscribe feed I then go to All - New.
Lol. But then you get a bunch of posts from c/Colorado from their news bot and Right now it’s a bunch of posts from nrc. Haha.
I guess you aren’t aware you can hide/block communities? 🤷🏼♂️
No, I’m aware blocking and hiding. I don’t mind it too much. Reminds me the usa is not the center of the universe and usually they slow down or get blocked by my instance since they’re bots. I haven’t had to block or hide yet.
that’s fantastic, much better