I’ve subscribed to a handful of communities, but my feed is almost exclusively from this asklemmy. How can I see more from other communities?

  • Stillhart@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’ve found that Active, which is the default, is pretty useless as it tends to be a self-fulfilling prophecy sort of thing. Everyone sees the most active stuff and they become more active, keeping them at the top.

    Hot works better for a balance between New and Active.

    I recommend changing your default sort in your settings to anything but Active. While you are there, might want to change the default grouping from All to Subscribed.

    • frap129@lemmy.maples.dev
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      1 year ago

      Oddly enough, Active has been the best for me. When I sort by Hot, I get almost entirely 2+ year old posts. Guess it all depends what communities you’ve joined

      • notquitetitan@lemmy.tf
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        1 year ago

        I think “Hot” sorting was/is bugged on some instances. I think it was fixed in a lemmy update. I believe there was a Github issue tracking it.

      • yads
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        1 year ago

        I feel like Hot might be bugged right now

    • tj111@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      Hot is good but it works more like “rising” on reddit did. I sort of go between hot and top 6/12 hour for a combo of rising things and things that have a lot of interaction but aren’t stale.

  • Brandon658@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Active isn’t very good. I’ve been having good results with hot/new. Haven’t tried top by time yet.

    Then I would suppose same community might just be a function of traffic those are receiving vs others so your odds are higher to see the same. Should smooth over as more places get better established.

  • soljin@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Sort “Hot”, and not “Active” to see the smaller communities more often.

  • Ragoo@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Because the default sorting algorithms for both posts and comments from reddit are not implement. Imo quite annoying because of issues like the one you mentioned. But not a lot of people seem to care.