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
    121·
    1 year 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
      101·
      1 year 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.”

          • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
            2·
            1 year 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 🥰

          • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
            11·
            1 year 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?

            • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
              1·
              1 year 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

  • FiendishFork@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 year 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.

  • Zamboniman
    5·
    1 year 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.

    • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
      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.

  • hyper@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    Sort by either new or top today

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

    • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      1 year 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.

  • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    1 year ago

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

  • SmugBedBug@lemmy.iswhereits.at
    1·
    1 year 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.

  • Lumidaub@feddit.de
    0·
    1 year 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
      2·
      1 year 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.

        • GankTopPlz@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year 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.

    • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
      0·
      1 year 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)