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.
Does anyone know how to short comments by top default.
The sorting algorithm still needs some work.
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.
Also, changing your front page from local only/subscribed to all will show you all posts your instance can see.
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
I have no idea what I am doing on Lemmy but I’m just loving the vibes.
I prefer Top Hour. It filters out the junk.
Sorting by “Top -> 6 Hours” has been best for me so far
Yeah seems like the best to see the best new stuff.
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.
Mind if I ask a stupid question? I’m seeing lemm.ee more and more thanks to Memmy displaying it under usernames. How is it different from lemmy.world? Sorry if this should be obvious, still getting used to the fediverse.
It’s understandable to be confused. The easiest way to wrap your head around it is to think of it like the difference between Gmail and Hotmail, they both have the same purpose and do the same thing (showing you emails) but they are on different servers run by different people.
Lemmy.ml – lemmy.world – lemm.ee – etc.
They are all servers that connect together. Some posts, pictures, and profiles are saved to one server, some are saved on another. All of that is accessible between all of them.Gotcha, I think more or less I already understood that much. I meant more so how do they (lemmy.world vs lemm.ee specifically) differentiate from one another?
Is it simply the instances they federate with or is it the ones they block? Is there a “goal” for them worth considering when picking one? I only picked lemmy.world because it was the most popular. Saw that OP is from lemm.ee so thought I’d ask this here.
So for example: I’m somewhat interested in seeing how things go when threads users get included in the fediverse. I saw a post from lemm.ee basically saying they were considering it while another preemptively blocked them.
Sorry if this is too specific lol.
Well you also have to consider the philosophy of your admins. They can block and censor anything for you basically. You might join an instance that removes posts critical of a certain country, etc.
But mostly it’s just about who they defederate
Got it. So why did you pick thelemmy.club?
Actually, I run thelemmy.club
So I get to make all those decisions. I try to be fairly laid back though as I have over 100 users now (though only a dozen or two active ones)
So you can already kinda see how the different instances differ.
They all for the most part run the same server which means they will all look the same. The difference then comes down to how they will manage the server and moderate the users.
I can’t give specifics between lemm.ee and lemmy.world because I haven’t really seen much from the admins. I know Ruud, the admin of lemmy.world, also hosts large instances of other federated platforms like Mastodon, so it can be assumed they are experienced with hosting and there will likely be limited service interruptions that other instances may face.
One instance may be more relaxed with controversial topics and not block them from happening, one may want to defedare with certain instances because they simply don’t agree with their viewpoint even if others may be interested in hear from other viewpoints, one instance may not want to update to the latest Lemmy version right away which means things might be slow or not work as well until they do update.
I’m sorry if you are looking for the actual specific difference between lemmy.world and lemm.ee, but ideally the administration of an instance should be transparent to you.
Don’t be sorry, your replies were helpful and informative. I didn’t even consider server performance.
Server performance is a big one, lemmy.world was really slow for a while because it was the biggest one
Lol glad this was posted. I figured it out the 2nd day (July 2nd) but I’m GLAD it was finally confirmed with this and wasn’t just a placebo
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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.
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.
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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.
Wish we had a “rising” option. That was my fav on reddit
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.
that’s fantastic, much better
