I’ve seen a few mentions of people feeling like they’re constantly seeing the same content when sorting by active, I’ve since moved to hot, and I’m having a much better time.
The problem with sorting by hot, at least on my instance, is that I always seem to wind up looking at a post from years ago mixed in with more recent stuff. That’s not a problem per se, but I find myself almost responding to a conversation that happened a long time ago.
Tell your instance admin to restart the Lemmy service every so often. We have ours restart every six hours since that fixes the hot thing breaking and getting stale.
Larger instances might not be able to restart often as it could leave some interactions in limbo.
Thanks for the tip! And I happen to be the admin, lol. I’ll set a cron job to restart the lemmy container and see what changes.
I’ve set it to restart every six hours.
You should know you’ll lose the outbound queue of interactions everytime you restart. I was also under the impression that the big this was supposed to be a work around for had been fixed in 0.18.
What command do you use to restart the Lemmy service?
Great tip!
Sorting by hot also shows me a bunch of nsfw communities for some reason
Oh, maybe lemmy.world is using another definition of “hot.” ;)
To be fair, r/all would always have tons of NSFW posts before reddit started filtering them from the front page ~2 years ago.
Sorting by “Top -> 6 Hours” has been best for me so far
Came here to say this
I’m more of a top -> day kinda guy
Yeah seems like the best to see the best new stuff.
I started sorting by day because of seeing stuff from days ago thay hasn’t been touched. Active and hot have been broken.
Does your instance updated to latest version of Lemmy? Afaik, since 0.18 active and hot mostly work as intended
For the past two days I actually haven’t seen any outdated posts by sorting “hot”. It’s working pretty good for me in wefwef and Memmy.
Wish we had a “rising” option. That was my fav on reddit
Yeah, I second this, used it a fair amount myself.
Lemmy’s hot has some aspects of rising in it. Even posts with very few votes stay fairly high up if they got those votes early.
Top Hour is the same as Reddit’s rising option.
Is it? Source?
Similar, not exactly the same, no?
You can’t have a source to Reddit’s proprietary algorithms lol. Ask u/spez.
Well then, you can’t claim it’s the same, then! 😉
You can’t claim it’s different either, so? I’ll still claim whatever the fuck I want.
Hot for discovery.
Active to check in on ongoing discussions.
Use both, they are for different things.
Yes agreed. I do hope this is mentioned somewhere because I can see someone getting frustrated and leaving the site
All tools exist for a reason
The sorting algorithm still needs some work.
it’s reminiscent of the iTunes shuffle at launch. the shuffle was truly random, so with a large enough user base, some people were annoyed that the same artist might get played multiple times in a row. it’s a possibility in true random generations, but it felt wrong, so they fixed it and made rules for shuffle so it seemed more random
Helped me to block some communities I was not interested in, now it’s much better.
Well, all the sort options are rational. You just have to use the one you prefer. How would you sort posts differently ?
I need something that works well for both small and large communities. Active and top basically only shows big communities. I want some form of “top” that’s actually relative to the norm for that community (both in terms of votes and how many posts the community gets). I’d rather not see completely new posts (I often like someone else to take the “first pass”), but don’t want to completely miss content in small communities.
In fact, right now, it seems like the only way to see stuff in smaller communities is to specifically browse that community? That’s the only way I’ve ever seen posts from my tiny local city community. It has posts, but they’ve never once showed up on my subscribed front page.
You’re not wrong about this still needing a lot of work. But just fyi in the meantime sorting by “new comments” turns up a pretty good mix for me.
I miss rising and best on reddit gave me better experience. And I have not the slightest idea what a good sorting algorithm might be, I just can tell if it works for me or not. What helped me here, is blocking the communities I was not interested in, now the feeds are much more to my liking.
Seems you also sometimes get resurrected 1Y+ necro posts in ‘Hot’, but otherwise yeah you get a lot more post diversity
I noticed this too but went to lemmyverse.net and subbed to a bunch of new things, and unsubscribed from some memes communities that were posting way too much.
I have default sort of top 6 hours, works well for fresh content.
Sort by New Comments if you wanna go back to the way old forums work where new posts and posts with new comments get pushed right to the top and decay based on getting pushed down by other new and active topics of discussion. If you do it while browsing All, you will always see the hottest topics that are active.
Wow, the advice I didn’t know I needed. You’re rapidly becoming my favorite fellow lemming.
Is there a way to set a default sort for comments? I don’t remember seeing that option in the account settings.
There is in the app I use (Liftoff).
I always sort by All and New. In fact it’s my default feed setting on my Liftoff app.
Same. When I have exhausted my subscribe feed I then go to All - New.
Yeah, I do this alongside sorting by Hot, switching between the two frequently.
Lol. But then you get a bunch of posts from c/Colorado from their news bot and Right now it’s a bunch of posts from nrc. Haha.
I guess you aren’t aware you can hide/block communities? 🤷🏼♂️
No, I’m aware blocking and hiding. I don’t mind it too much. Reminds me the usa is not the center of the universe and usually they slow down or get blocked by my instance since they’re bots. I haven’t had to block or hide yet.
But sometimes you get a lot of posts in foreign languages. But at least you get to discover new communities and re-emerging ones that come over from Reddit.
I love the TOP x hours sort. My default is 6 but if I notice seeing the same content, top 1 hour fixes that
Wouldn’t one downside of this be that smaller communities will not appear though?
I think you’re right. If you want to explore the lemiverse I think all->hot is your best bet.
I prefer Top Hour. It filters out the junk.
I have no idea what I am doing on Lemmy but I’m just loving the vibes.
same lol
I’ll let you know when I work it out!
Yes, I discovered it yesterday, but while now the content is new every time, IMO its quality has decreased a lot (mainly memes, shower thoughts or news about Reddit or Musk).
Block the memes and things looks better :)
Can I just block memes from the /all feed?
I sort by TopDay and that seems to get me quite popular content, but Hot is also good for new stuff. Love the options for sorting on Connect for Lemmy
Does anyone know how to short comments by top default.
