What is the best post sort for Lemmy?

All, Top 6 hours. Keeps me fairly up on things. If I feel like I'm hitting the same stuff, I'll switch to Hot or Active.

I just wish it would prioritize the top from the last 6 hours while showing older stuff below. Because slower communities feel dead when you visit and see no posts (even if there was one seven hours ago).

All, Everything, sorted by Newest Comment.

This is objectively the best. Anyone who says otherwise is very, very wrong. 😌

This is how I do it but be aware voting through this method leads to shitty mods banning you under the pretence of drive by voting. Doesn’t stop me but just FYI.
- The fuck kind of reason is that?
- Mods watching votes is creepy
i do this and i block/filter sources that give too much stuff i don't want to see, like the 196*
Ayy, this is the way (and once you view enough you switch to hot and then to active, then you exit and return in ~40seconds and start over)

Subscribed and top 12 hours is what I've been going by for about a year now. After I've scrolled through that I switch to "all" from which I've blocked all the communities I'm not interested about.

2nd.

Scaled was a game-changer for me.

I use scaled on web. Voyager can remember your sorts for different communities. I typically to use new for smaller communities and scaled for larger ones and the home feed.

What is Scaled, precious?
- Scaled takes smaller communities into account and bumps their posts up so they don't get buried by posts from larger communities with more engagement.
  
  Edit: here are the descriptions:
  
  Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time.
  Hot: Like active, but uses time when the post was published.
  Scaled: Like hot, but gives a boost to less active communities
  
  https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

I always read subscribed communities by new.

Subscribed - New

New.

You get to see stuff early, you get less repeats, you have more chances at lucking into good conversations because you can comment and be way more likely to be seen, thus upping the chances of setting the vibe for any responses as opposed to jumping into stuff that's already ongoing.

Plus, in most apps, you can tell when you're back to things you've already seen easier. You don't run across a post that's marked read and have to keep scrolling anyway.

Now the downside is that you see the bad stuff early too. And, if you don't want to engage and would rather be able to leave short comments that only OP will see, it's harder.

I've tried all the sort methods, and only new gives me the kind of experience I enjoy.

All the first comments saying they browse by new... 🤔

New then active

Plus one for new it helps push up new posts from new people engaging with the platform.

Scaled. But I wish there was a way to see all unread posts sorted oldest to newest.

I’m a hottie.

I like Top of the last 6 hours. In the Old Place I did Top of the last hour, but it's a little slower here. If I can't bear to read the article (too often these days) I can go straight to the comments and there will be some. If I run out of blue posts, or want to catch an unfolding event, I switch to Hot.

Hot, but once a day I check Top-Day

Scaled

Always Top 6 Hours or Top Day. Never hot. Not sure what the deal with hot is, but I agree it feels wrong.

Scaled. Though your feed will be filled with posts from the same community if that community suddenly started posting lots of posts and is a new one. It happened to me with !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone

I personally enjoy "new comments", it's a mix of new posts and recently commented on posts

My favorites are

New or New Comments for Home
Scaled or Top 6 hours for All

As some other people suggested, I can also add vote to scaled, especially on subscribed communities.

I don't spend that much time on lemmy and smaller communities don't get attention in my feed otherwise. With scaled they pop up pretty often.

I went by scaled on my previous instance because I enjoy seeing small communities posts as well and they easily drown otherwise.
However piefed doesn't have that sorting :(

So far scaled seems nice to get the little ones higher up. AFAIK you can't pre-make custom lists as some communities are perhaps more fun if you go for newest (comments) but then the small ones might get lost in the chaos.

Ideally, I would set scaled top 6-hours or something?

My default is hot for subscribed, although i should also try scaled to show smaller communities.

And if I hit posts I recently browsed, I changed it up to Top 12 hours or top of day for all to see some 'newer' things.

I wasn't sure early on but found those worked well for me.

I check active/hot interchangeably, and then use the 1 hour/6 hour/12 hour filters, depending on how long it's been since I last opened the app

I switched to "new comments" a while ago and have no desire to go back to anything else.

Oh wow. There are so many completely different opinions. Looks like the right answer is that there is no answer. Try all of them to find out what you like. Everyone seems to like something different, so my preferred sorting (which BTW is objectively the best one) might not be the one you like.

Subscribed, top of the day, at the same time of day, every day.

I do All - Scaled. I'll switch to New if I feel like I'm seeing a lot of repeat content. I've had to block a few bots (the reddit reposters are particularly egregious) and communities I don't really care for.

Hot, top 6 hours and new comments