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.
I just realized that this post was 16 days 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.
Same
Sorting by top day helps. I have actually been sorting by new as well. Not as busy here as it is on Reddit, plus generally high quality so new stuff is pretty good.
First, this isn’t reddit, sort by Subscribed / New.
Second, subscribe to stuff and don’t be afraid to subscribe at the same time to smaller communities on other instances. Yes, you cannot group them by topic Yet™, but it’s on the road map.
Following up:
Third: Don’t lurk! We need content here. Be a contributor, and don’t worry about what people think. Sieze your moment, and cry, “FIRST! I posted that here.”
Bruh you’re talking to [email protected]. He couldn’t lurk if he were paid a million bucks to do so. This dude has shit to say.
I didn’t vote for him.
you voted with your silence!!! i am the ruler of all, why didn’t you say anything 1 quintillion years ago when i declared myself king of existence? now it is too late, you should’ve spoken up, this is a democracy after all 🥰
Sigh. Shem, bubby… I was there too.
<3 was i noticed
or wasnt i
or was i
🌻 taking petals out of this flower to find out
Man you got almost 500 comments and 50 posts in 10 days. And you’re funny. You’re putting me to shame and I’ve really been trying.
Btw you ever watch My Mister?
I haven’t but if you say it’s good i’ll watch it. It’s on my recommended list sometimes but there’s just so much in it that it’s not owo. brb someone prayed for me
I know there are plenty of fixes coming in the next version of Lemmy, and maybe some of these sorting issues will be…ahem…sorted out with that.
I use this URL in a bookmark:
https://lemmy.ml/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/Subscribed/sort/New/page/1
This gives me new posts from my subscribed communities sorted by creation date.
Sorting by new is working well for me. There may come a day when Lemmy communities have so much content that it’s too much for me to browse, but we’re not there yet. I’m sure when that day comes, though, Hot and Active will be better methods.
It’s a bug, the admin of https://lemm.ee/ has fixed it on their instance. It will probably be fixed for everyone on the next release.
More info -> https://lemm.ee/comment/118526
Sort by either new or top today
If you’re feeling adventurous select all and sort by new/top today
All>new is my fav so far. Lots of stuff I wouldn’t have found otherwise.
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.
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.
Then maybe you need to follow the RSS feeds of actual news sources.
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.
