I wish Lemmy had the Mastodon functionality to create your own lists of communities. I subscribe to a ton of communities and I have a couple of them which are very low volume but I’m very interested in seeing each and every post there. Right now I have to remember them and go to them specifically once every couple of days to check if there are new posts there. This is because the high volume communities push all the other things down so people don’t see them and don’t vote on them.
In Mastodon I have a #Homies list which is always visible and there I see the posts of people I personally know and want to see each post of them. It’s amazing and easy to implement.
Make sure to check “new” now and then. That will show you all posts chronologically, regardless of how visible they are to the other algorithms.
(It’s how I found your post… )
New is my default, but because I’m in a different time zone than many of those low volume ones I more often than not miss all their posts.
Do you restrict to a certain amount of time?
I’m not sure what you mean.
You can restrict what you view to within an hour, 6 hours, 12 hours, etc.