Memes @lemmy.ml

1y ago

The best way to sort posts

94 comments

Im personally a "New" enjoyer.
- Thank you for your contribution based new sorter.
- Based
- "New" for subscribed, top6h for everything
  
  I would love a hybrid of my subscriptions and top posts. I'm still settling in from Reddit and I'm still to find out what's out there.
  Getting to grips with how to search for and find communities.
- I forget that we aren't using the "other" place where sorting by new is terrible
  
  Being a smaller platform where the points don't matter does make the "new" experience more enjoyable.

reading from top(6H) right now

I'm using top in 12 hours, which fits better when you browse in the morning and in the evening.
- I use 6h because I apparently have no life
  
  I believe that it should be the other way around.
  You have too much life, so you frivolously spend it on Lemmy.
  Those with no life don't have time for their own interests and hobbies.
  That aside, understandable, have a good day.
  
  Look at Mr. Popular over here. I browse 1h.

I found you on Hot!
- I found it on top 6 hours
- I appreciate how deeply weird Hot is. Doesn’t take much scrolling before I see posts from months ago.

I feel validated
- I like how people without any prompt all came to the same conclusion.

The only thing I see now are memes. That's what I dislike currently about Lemmy. People aren't active in other communities most of the time. I am not here to enjoy a instagram-like feed, I am here to read and discuss, like in the forums.
- This is one thing that Lemmy REALLY needs to work on. The hobby- and topic-specific communities need to grow. Lemmy is currently dominated by like 5-10 communities, which is fine, but it really falls short of the experience I had on Reddit in that regard.
- I am pretty excited to slowly repost all my old content here over the course of several months to reap all those fake internet points again. It isn't reposting if it is a new website.

My Fediverse experience became exponentially superior once I learned that the default sorting options were a bit shite compared to the alternatives.
- Lol

I do 6, 12, and 24 hours based on how long it was since I last browsed lemmy
- Based chronomaxxing

I'm still not sure what's the difference between Hot and Active. ELI5, anybody?
- Active means most comments in recent time, Hot means most upvotes in recent times

What's the difference between Hot and Top?
- Hot prefers newer posts that are gaining votes and comments. Top prefers the most votes within a specific timeframe.
- The Lemmy documentation explains the different sort options pretty well: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
  The difference between "Hot" and "Active" is probably the most confusing to most users.
  
  Getting bad gateway on the link but thanks for sharing it. I'll check it later.

I wish Hot had a bit less post decay, it would be close to perfect then. Active doesn't surface new posts often enough for me

Sorts by controversial
- I assume you're just joking, but does that feature even exist in any Lemmy clients? Seems like the number of servers that don't allow downvotes would make it useless anyway.
  
  Drama addicts are gonna have to find another teat upon which to suckle.
  
  This is something that could be added to a client some day even if it won't work on some instances. I'd use it on occasion.
  
  Sync user: So far sync is unable to
- Every single Sync for Lemmy post at the top

Trying this out brb
- Haven't heard back yet...
  
  Ok I came back ! It's truly a life changing trick, approved. I've also experimented with top 12h, and it's giving me good results too. Maybe switching to 24h in the future.

I swap between top 24/12/6 depending on how long I'm away.
6 gets shitty because you start getting the random porn pretty quickly.

When you sort by hot in public and scroll past hardcore porn in public.
- Turn of nsfw
  
  I'm the kind of person thats comfortable with scrolling past hardcore porn on a crowded bus. I'm not a religious man, it's just nature taking it's course.
  
  Or use a client with a blur setting

Is active really that bad? 😭. What am I doing wrong?
- "This flu in China might be really bad" - 3 years ago
  "A new breakthrough that's shaking physics to its core" - 4 years ago
  "Trump may not get away with it this time" - 2 years ago
  Aww yeah, the feed is lit tonight! Something new to read!
- It's easy for really old posts to get necro'd in Active sort. Not necessarily a bad thing, but if you use the "feed" to keep up with the latest then it'll cloud your listings a bit. A lot of people don't look at the post date right away (especially those of us from alien site since we're still operating on old habits).
  Hot also had a bug that pushed old posts up, IIRC? Maybe i'm thinking of Active; I can't remember off the top of my head as I type this. Anyway I think Active is based on recent comment activity and Hot is based on recent voting activity. Nothing wrong with either, but I am honestly appreciating the "Top X hours" methods to keep up with recent news and events and to keep things fresh.
  We're still in the "oh shit activity has increased by a factor of a thousand, we need to make the database not crash" phase of development of Lemmy (and kbin) so I'd expect that eventually the feed sorts will be looked at and tweaked. Just needs a bit of attention to get what you are looking for at the moment.
  
  Honestly that makes a ton of sense to me. The only real/sort of real problem I have with the sort from the "last X hours" is that I feel like as someone who doesn't regularly check the site I would miss a lot of posts I wouldn't normally see. That's just my perspective. Thanks for the insight though.

This was the very top of my “top 6 hours” feed. Checks out

Thank you !. I was trying to find a noob's guide to Lemmy.
- A tip if you're used to old reddit and use desktop, check out old.lemmy.world. It as a dark mode like reddit enhancement suite adds to old reddit, and everything is exactly where I expect it to be based on my reddit experience. Since you're already using a lemmy.world account, it'll just work for you straight away.
  Oh and also, you'll see that you can list things as "all," "local," or "subscribed." You can pretty much ignore local, and use all or subscribed as your main page.
  
  This! Lemmy became so much comfortable by using old.lemmy.world, almost all withdrawal symptoms went away.

Hot has been getting better, but yeah, active sucks
- Active is literally showing posts from 2-3 days ago
  
  Active randomly shows me stuff from 2-3 years ago lol

I tried it and your meme disappeared. I had to go back to hot to find it. 🤔

This meme improved my experience, excellent job.

Mfw this is the first post on my 6 hour feed

The fact that I'm still seeing this at the top of my "Top (Twelve Hours)" means you're probably right? lol

I always start with my Home/Frontpage/Subscribed feed on New. Then, when Ive exhausted that (since I'm a lemmy addict) I switch to All - New. That's usually enough for me. If my soul still desires content I switch to All - Hot. Your All feed can be pretty good if you block certain communities.
- Yup, best way to browse is All by New, then block anything you don't like to see, that way you won't miss any new communities that pops up.

Incidentally, certain sorts have more porn than others. Active has less, hot has more, and that's probably due to the fact that it's stupid to comment on porn posts. With timed sorts, you can also get some sorts with more or less of it.

Some (me) like it Hot!
- We have a (wo)man of culture here.

i sort by 'new comments' by default. makes me feel like i'm on ye olde forums, and i am mostly here for discussion more than anything.

Top 12h for All, New for Local(small, country specific instance).
Who use Active anyway? I have no idea what's that for. Because it looks and function very similar to New Comment. Hot is just New but also...Active? Because it will show both new content and also post from days or even weeks ago lol