YSK: Sorting by 'Hot' instead of 'Active' will show more diverse content on Lemmy
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.
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The sorting algorithm still needs some work.
it's reminiscent of the iTunes shuffle at launch. the shuffle was truly random, so with a large enough user base, some people were annoyed that the same artist might get played multiple times in a row. it's a possibility in true random generations, but it felt wrong, so they fixed it and made rules for shuffle so it seemed more random
Helped me to block some communities I was not interested in, now it's much better.
Well, all the sort options are rational. You just have to use the one you prefer. How would you sort posts differently ?
I miss rising and best on reddit gave me better experience. And I have not the slightest idea what a good sorting algorithm might be, I just can tell if it works for me or not. What helped me here, is blocking the communities I was not interested in, now the feeds are much more to my liking.
I need something that works well for both small and large communities. Active and top basically only shows big communities. I want some form of "top" that's actually relative to the norm for that community (both in terms of votes and how many posts the community gets). I'd rather not see completely new posts (I often like someone else to take the "first pass"), but don't want to completely miss content in small communities.
In fact, right now, it seems like the only way to see stuff in smaller communities is to specifically browse that community? That's the only way I've ever seen posts from my tiny local city community. It has posts, but they've never once showed up on my subscribed front page.
You're not wrong about this still needing a lot of work. But just fyi in the meantime sorting by "new comments" turns up a pretty good mix for me.