What is the proper "Default sort" for the best experience

New is always the way to sort, anywhere. Relying on someone else's opinion to guide what you see is like chewing second hand gum.

I switch between Top Day and New Comments

The instance has just been reset so "active" should be better for the moment.

I set top day subscribed, go through a few new subscribed, go on kbin, set it to hot defederated, hot federated, quickly skim the microblog threads on there, go on lemm.ee, visit hot and active subscribed (they have applied a fix to the active problem on this one that shows days old posts), and then I go through many of the communities I'm subscribed to and go through active, hot, new, etc., and basically see what's up.

I basically mentioned all the sorting methods right? But what's the best one, you ask? Probably kbin by hot local and hot federated. And on Lemmy itself, probably lemm.ee hot. And on this instance, probably new for subscribed and top day for sub, local and all.

My default is local top day. Then once I go through a few lemmy servers that way I set it to all top day.

I like to have it set to "all" and "new comments". There is some movement but its slow enough to be usable. Also posts which are very active are more likely to appear there but you still see some newer stuff.

I really hope the "hot" and "active" algorithms will be fixed soon though.

I go by new. Obviously the content level here is not Reddit-esque yet, so it’s still remarkably manageable to do this way. At some point, I imagine (hope?) needing to shift to “hot” or “active,” but that time hasn’t come for me, yet.

Active is broke in the current version. Top of the day usually shows active posts, but only one page. New shows multiple pages, but the shown posts don'thave much traction.

On the instances where hot is working, I think it does work pretty nicely for this. Hopefully it'll be up and working everywhere very soon with the next update. When I'm on an account with an instance where it's not working, I tend to switch between top-day and new. Going into individual communities as well you can easily see what was popular.

Top Day seems to be working well for me. Since things generally move a bit slower on here than the Reddit firehose, Top Day gives you a nice blend of newer stuff plus stuff that has some active discussions going on

I sort by Type: Subscribed; Sort type: New.

As the threadiverse grows, I may consider switching to Active. But for now, I like New.

You may also consider Top Day.