Why YSK: Doing so can change your feed and experience drastically.
I typically sort by local/all: active, where I see a mixture of memes, news, and discussions. But I switched to all: hot, and I was shocked by just how homogeneous my feed became. It was pretty much entirely memes and computer discussion. Obviously this isn’t always the case. But, I could see someone who always sorts by hot not realizing the diversity of the site.
So, if you’re a little bored with your feed, or just want to see different posts, then try different sorting methods. Even if you’re not, try it anyway. You might like what you find - or you might go back to your default.
I seem to prefer top 6 hours personally. It gives you the most updated stuff but has a short enough time period so that you can still check it a few times a day and likely get different posts assuming you are subbed to a good number of active communities.
Yeah, Active and Hot are really good now at mixing new and active content, but when we had less activity or when something big is happening, things tend to get stuck there, and I basically end up having to scroll more than I should.
Top 6/12 hours is the best if I just wanna see what’s actually trending for the day and move on.
Wow. I never knew this existed. Thanks!
Also for whatever reason Hot has been dredging up posts from 2-3 years ago.
From what I can tell it happens when someone posts a comment on old posts
switches to all, sees porn
Goddammit
This post has helped me more than anything on Lemmy yet. Thank you.
So much better.
There are way too many memes and that weird 196 community on my hot feed
I’ve blocked the communities I don’t want to see on Memmy but they keep showing up
Me too then I realized they were duplicate communities on other instances. Just blocked them too and no more.
Ohhhh this could be a game changer then! Ty
That’s weird, have you tried blocking them from the Web interface so that they will be blocked for you wherever you are?
I tried the lemmy web app and Memmy neither of which Ed worked
I can try in a browser too
The browser should work
New comments is my favourite so far. Its a good mix of active discussions and fresh posts.
My default is actually “New”, I only manually change to Hot or Active if I want to see some comments and discussions.
Thanks, didn‘t even think of that!
I stick with subscribed»new, so I don’t miss anything from the communities in which I’m interested.
