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.

  • SolidGrue@lemmy.world
    281·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • SolidGrue@lemmy.world
      25·
      2 years ago

      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.”

      • imaqtpieA
        9·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • GodOP
          4·
          2 years ago

          <3 was i noticed

          or wasnt i

          or was i

          🌻 taking petals out of this flower to find out

          • imaqtpieA
            4·
            2 years ago

            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?

            • GodOP
              3·
              2 years ago

              You’re putting me to shame and I’ve really been trying.

              😳

              well i didn’t know it was hard, maybe i’m just a shitposter cuz i don’t think about it much, i just go for it, and i try not to leave any comment unanswered, even if the answer is only partial. i do have some training in shitpostery. It was at the shitposter special forces on steemit.com where you got money for shitposting a shitton. I guess I kept the habit of never shutting up cuz that’s what brings dem monies over there.

              • imaqtpieA
                2·
                2 years ago

                Lmao hey man, whatever works. Sh.itpost away if it’s stimulating engagement on this platform. We gotta get to at least a million users before I start to relax and feel like Lemmy is here to stay

                • GodOP
                  1·
                  2 years ago

                  Lol do consider that steem and hive never even got to a million and they stayed. They have had at their top, each, around 60-100k active users per day or month, not very sure. Lemmy is a long way from that, true, but you don’t reaaally need a million to consider a platform stable. Especially one like this that has such fast feedback for your actions. Attention junkies are gonna drown this shit once they find out how rewarding it is to be here. Long story short: don’t worry, we good :)

            • GodOP
              3·
              2 years ago

              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

              • imaqtpieA
                2·
                2 years ago

                I’m not super into kdramas but that’s one of the handful that I watched and something about it resonated with me. Like seriously resonated I was crying like a baby lol

                • GodOP
                  2·
                  2 years ago

                  adding it to my netflix list

          • GodOP
            4·
            2 years ago

            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 🥰

      • GodOP
        2·
        2 years ago

        :) I have thought that, and then I forget it, then I think about it again, it’s hard not to fall back to lurker. Then again, I do provide a shitton of content a lot of the time, I just haven’t gotten the hang of doing it even more!

  • FiendishFork@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • GodOP
      3·
      2 years ago

      I’ve done that, but my new feed, maybe it’s a difference in which communities we follow, but my communities’ New are not top quality but very eh.

    • GodOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      MAYBE SO, cuz i have the exact same things lol. maybe that’s the reason 😅 i was thinking of just making my own frontend to solve it but that’s a bit overkill and i’d have to scrape the fuck out of the servers’ apis to get better sorting and that’s a bit impolite.

  • Zamboniman@lemmy.ca
    11·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • GodOP
      3·
      2 years ago

      signed up on lemmee, will try it out, thanks :) maybe that’s the fix! :D

  • hyper@lemmy.ml
    5·
    2 years ago

    Sort by either new or top today

    If you’re feeling adventurous select all and sort by new/top today

    • GodOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      If you’re feeling adventurous

      i am not! i am feeling stressed and i want a hug :) but i live alone so i will have to hug a pillow.

    • GodOP
      4·
      2 years ago

      What do you sort by? I’m already following around 40 communities. Maybe it is indeed which communities I follow and maybe I do need to follow more. I’ll follow your advice and try to fill it up way more and see if that makes a difference (apart from making New an unreadable mess of fast-scrolling titles)

    • GodOP
      1·
      1 year 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.

  • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    2 years ago

    With the current amount of users sorting by new seems to still work quite well. That’s how I found this thread too.

    • GodOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      not bad for getting a good amount of engagement! but for finding cool shit, not as good, i won’t discard bro3wsing by new but i’m also looking into other possibilities that have improved my experience already :)

  • SmugBedBug@lemmy.iswhereits.at
    3·
    2 years ago

    I remember reading that there is a bug with Hot and Active at the moment where older posts keep a high priority for too long. It’s supposed to be addressed in the v.0.18 release in the coming weeks.

    In the meantime, I use New or Top Daily. Not perfect but it gives fresher content.

  • imaqtpieA
    3·
    2 years ago

    New and top day are the only viable options right now. Hot and active are completely broken. I would also love a top 12 hours and top 6 hours though. Because new is a bit too raw, and top day is a bit too stale. Shouldn’t be hard to add those as a temporary QoL fix.

    • GodOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      so new posts from subscribed communities, got it, how many communities do u follow? (i don’t need an exact number, just to know whether it’s more around 10 or more around 300)

  • GankTopPlz@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    I have 2 issues with hot/active

    1. What I think are new posts suddenly begin filling the top of my feed closing any images I have open and pushing everything down very quickly. This makes both unusable to me.

    2. The algorithm keeps posts that are days old at the top, witch is the opposite of how I would want my regular feed to work.

    However reddit handles hot seems perfect to me, but im open to small changes that will make discovery a little better or to better integrate instances.

    • GodOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      What I think are new posts suddenly begin filling the top of my feed closing any images I have open and pushing everything down very quickly. This makes both unusable to me

      not on the android app!!!

      However reddit handles hot seems perfect to me, but im open to small changes that will make discovery a little better or to better integrate instances.

      same, that’s why i came here to ask this, i feel that if we can come to a few good ideas we can improve our experience and accept these changes more readily :)

    • GodOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      trying out the lemm.ee for now, seems to work well, migrated my subscriptions

  • Lumidaub@feddit.de
    2·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • GankTopPlz@kbin.social
      5·
      2 years ago

      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.

        • GodOP
          4·
          2 years ago

          do you know that link aggregators are used to sift through news and share the relevant/cool/importnat/interesting news of the day? Check out hackernews for example, that’s basically what the person you’re replying to does. You don’t actually need to RSS news sources to get that.

          And I have followed news sources in the past. It gets boring pretty fast without 1. other ppl’s input and 2. without any filter for how relevant it is for me or the people who are like me.

        • GankTopPlz@kbin.social
          3·
          2 years ago

          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.

    • GodOP
      4·
      2 years ago

      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

      i-it is??? I always comment on shit that’s like a year old. I don’t care about that hahahah, my problem with the old stuff is not that it is old but that I already saw it. I wanna see new cool stuff!! I just don’t wanna be the one upvoting things in New all the time. Sometimes I just wanna see what all the cool people are doing.

      • GankTopPlz@kbin.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        on reddit, unless it’s some kind of help or megathread, you typically don’t comment on old posts. in the past you couldn’t comment/vote on posts over 6 months old regardless.

        • GodOP
          2·
          2 years ago

          lol, i honestly just reply to anything i wanna reply to, i don’t think i’ve ever gotten anyone be angry. the worst response i got was something along the lines of “i don’t care anymore”