I've been trying New for about a week. In hopes to upvote things from communities I like to improve engagement.

We are all knights of the new.

The Hot sort seems to show new and sligly older content, with an enphasis on new. So I just sort by hot, as the algorithm is pretty good for that.

And mostly on subscribed. All being mostly to discover other things.

For supported sort types : https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

I usually sort by new so someone will actually read and/or respond to my comments lol

All: Top Six Hours

Local New to begin with. After that All New

When I first started Lemmy the general consensus was top 6-hour, so I start with that. When that gets boring I switch to New.

New. Always new. Top is all memes I don't understand. (Totally not hipster lol.)

I used to do top 12 hours but I only see the biggest communities that way so now I'm on hot

"Subscribed - Hot" is my normal and then once or twice a day I "All - Top 12 Hours" (or Top Day if I haven't checked in a while).

I've got enough subscribed communities that Hot separates most of the chaff and still has a handful of new threads every hour. Then All - Top 12 hours show's me the day's best memes.

I go by New I like to see what's going on as it's going on 😁

Subscriptions: New

After going through Subscribed - new, I switch it to all new.

New. Seems most logical imo.

switched from active to new comments i have some regrets but i have fear to change back to active

If its all then i do top: 6hr but i sort individual communities as new

I start at top of day, then 12 hrs, then 6 hrs, then 1 hr and then new. All, not subscribed, of course. It helps that I'm on a small instance where basically everything is interesting and it's not flooded with posts.

I get caught up on Subscribed - New and make sure I've seen everything, and then if I'm still bored I'll go to All - Top Day or 12 hour, and then if I've seen most of those I go down to Top 6 hour

New:Subscribed until I catch up, then New:All to look for new communities to subscribe to.

I check subscribed on top of the day once a day.

Top six hours for all, new for subscribed and communities.

Subs: New All: Top 6 hours Or, when I'm feeling adventurous, All: New

Sometimes I want that wild west.

I normally go to NEW as it allows me to find stuff I haven't found.

It depends on when I looked last time. Mostly Hot is new enough so I didn't see it before but also interesting and no spam. If I look very often then New. If I didn't look for a couple of days then Active.

By RSS. I never see the feed.

Hot/All - I have it set to show NSFW, but I block most of the NSFW subs individually or the people who are just trying to push people to OF. Problem is on old.lemmy, you have to visit the group you want to block if you want to block it. So my history looks like a lot of me going to yiff/gay/rape/incest/torture shit...but there's no button to block it on the mlmym version of lemmy unless I go do the stupid group directly. Author says he implemented this functionality, but it doesn't work in FF.

Always "all" and sorted by the last 12/24 hours. I found that gives the best results, fresh content with decent comments

New.

I always sort Home and New. Then, when I’ve exhausted my feed, I sort All and New.

All>Newest Comments

Just like old forums and BBS, where only adding something to the dialogue pushes it up. Votes are meaningless to the sorting.

Newest first, subscribed only, occasionally browse withoutl logging in so I see non-subscribed. Down with The Algorithm(tm).