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.

    • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      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.

  • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    With the current amount of users sorting by new seems to still work quite well. That’s how I found this thread too.

  • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    New and top day are the only viable options right now. Hot and active are completely broken. I would also love a top 12 hours and top 6 hours though. Because new is a bit too raw, and top day is a bit too stale. Shouldn’t be hard to add those as a temporary QoL fix.

  • GankTopPlz@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I have 2 issues with hot/active

    1. What I think are new posts suddenly begin filling the top of my feed closing any images I have open and pushing everything down very quickly. This makes both unusable to me.

    2. The algorithm keeps posts that are days old at the top, witch is the opposite of how I would want my regular feed to work.

    However reddit handles hot seems perfect to me, but im open to small changes that will make discovery a little better or to better integrate instances.

  • Lumidaub@feddit.de
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    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
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      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.

        • GankTopPlz@kbin.social
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          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.