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Sorting Type

On lemmy.world at the very least, posts are sorted by default to "Active". Active will decay posts based on the popularity of its most recent comments. This keeps the most discussed topic on the front of the page, and they'll stay there until people stop talking about it. This also makes it possible that a "dead" thread can get revived if enough people newly discover it & comment on it. This is a very valuable feature, but for us content junkies it may not be your desired default.

Switching to "Hot" will decay posts based only on their age & popularity (not their comment's age & popularity). When filtered to "Hot", you will see a lot newer, less-popular (but more current) content. The decay doesn't seem to be tuned to how a lot of us may be used to - it's more of a "Rising" than our typical "Hot" - but nevertheless it at least gives a constant stream of semi-popular new content.


Sorting Scope

On lemmy.world at the very least, posts are filtered by default to "Local", which only contains communities created on lemmy.world.

If you switch your default to "All", you will open up your content stream to everything within the fediverse. Warning: this does include NSFW content & communities (but if you are OK blanketly removing NSFW content, you can disable it in your settings)

If you are having trouble grasping the concept of "Local", "All", "Instances", "Fediverse", etc, if you have any experience playing an MMO, there's an analogy that may help connect some of the dots;

  • Lemmy Federation = MMO Server Regions (a cluster of servers connected to each other)
  • Lemmy Instances = MMO Servers/Realms (a place where each account and its content is saved on the same physical hardware)
  • Lemmy Community = MMO Guild (a group of individuals with similar interests)

Searching on "All" is akin to playing an MMO with cross-realm/server features enabled.


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[-] legion02@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago

This will be great advice in a couple days when everyone else sees it.

[-] justineie_bobeanie@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

This made me spit lmao

[-] codus@leby.dev 4 points 1 year ago

It’s been two days and it just showed up in my active feed!

[-] ribboo@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

Sorting by top during the last 6 hours is by far the best experience for getting “what’s hot”. It’s not as buggy as hot is, which show months old content.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

I've gotten years old content on hot, only a couple pages down.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 year ago

This is a known bug. Should get fixed by an update soonish

[-] Relax4939@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Oh wow that option was right there, for some reason i never bothered to read it.

[-] degrails@lemmy.fmhy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

It doesn't help that we have pinned posts from many communities hogging the top space in many sorting options, without a way to get rid of them.

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There should be a local (as in inside the community/magazine) pin and a global pin (which should be used if it really interests the whole instance).

Maybe there is already an Issue or even PR to address this, but I'm too lazy to actually look it up on the LemmyNet github.

[-] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

All.

Sort > top (day, 12, 6, depending on when you browsed last.

[-] amanvelani@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Sort -> Top( 1 hour, 6 hour) 🔥

[-] fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

that and a dash of new 😋

[-] _MoveSwiftly@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Hello there, and welcome to our community! I hope you like it in here.

Could you please include some body text as to why should people know this, and how would that help them? It’s our second rule. Thank you :)

[-] cc8@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago

Hot seems broken though. I see lots of posts that are days/weeks old, posts with 1 upvote, posts 20 minutes old with 1 upvote and so on.

[-] Wander@yiffit.net 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, there is a bug. It's better than it was before, but still needs some work.

[-] MrMusAddict@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It may depend on the scope of your browsing? Are you referring to All, Local, or Subscribed?

[-] WorkingVomit@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Is there a way to not see a post once you have voted on it?

[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

wefwef just rolled out "swipe to hide". So it'll depend on what client you're using.

[-] player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

In the Lemmy settings in the web browser there is a setting to hide viewed posts.

[-] WorkingVomit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] MondaySunday21@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Even though I'm now subscribed to heaps of channels, my feed on 'subscribed - all' only seems to show me posts from the same couple of channels even though a couple of those channels are way less active then many others I have.

Anyone have the same experience/tips - doesn't matter whether I set to new or hot

[-] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I have my profile set on hot and subscribed.

[-] contextual_somebody@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I had year old posts on my front page yesterday, but today I don’t. I have absolutely no idea why or what I did differently.

[-] Strangian@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Funnily enough, I just switched to sorting by hot for this exact reason and found this post

[-] ilikekeyboards@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Somebody tag a developer to make this a new registration tip before everyone just leaves the place because it's "stale"

[-] ryphez@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you! Also do save posts not work? I always seem to get timeouts

[-] Redecco@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Wondering this too, I would love to save some posts to come back to

[-] ryphez@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It’s been better today. I believe it’s just lemmy.world being overloaded

[-] laxe@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I’m using Top Day when browsing All. This way, I don’t miss any of the fresh beany memes.

[-] HiImYourDadsSon@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Also possible on Connect 😏

[-] WorkingVomit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Is there a way to not see a post once you have voted on it?

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 year ago

Sort by hot to see thq hottest 6mo threads.

[-] Kur4c@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Question, i used to browse only r/all on reddit. Now on memmy app i go to feed press in upper right all and then browse. Do i only see posts from my “world”?

[-] ragekage@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

On liftoff "all" shows me communities from all instances (worlds). I imagine most apps are the same but you can tell for sure if the @instance from some of the posts you see are not the same as the one you're on.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

No that would be "Local"

"All" is everything from pretty much everywhere

[-] Kur4c@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Question, i used to browse only r/all on reddit. Now on memmy app i go to feed press in upper right all and then browse. Do i only see posts from my “world”?

[-] amanvelani@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

If you select “All” then you will be able to see post from all the federated instances.

[-] Fractalfarmer@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

'All' is posts from all federated instances. If you want to view all posts from your instance use 'local'.

[-] invicticide@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I recently switched to sorting by New, which sounds insane coming from Reddit, but Lemmy is much smaller right now, and New is actually viable and interesting.

I'm sure with more growth that will change, but it's definitely kept my feed fresher and more interesting than either Active or Hot.

(This does of course assume that you're subscribed to a reasonable number of communities you're interested in.)

[-] droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Bruh I'm sorting by new and I still see the same posts. There's just not that much activity.

[-] stevecrox@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Change to subscribed
On KBin the default view is similar to /r/all this can be changed to limit your view to only magazines/communities you are subscribed to by going:

  • Select your account name in top right corner
  • Select 'Settings' from the account context menu
  • Select 'Subscription' from the 'Homepage' drop down
  • Select 'Save' on the settings page

This will change your default URL to https://<insance url>/sub (e.g. https://kbin.social/sub). This will change your feed to the top/newest/hottest from your subscribed magazines/communities.

Time Filter
If you look at the KBin screen, you will notice a filter by time option. Look for the navigation bar with hottest/newest/etc.. on it on that bar is a upwards arrow and 4 lines representing a triangle (its normally used as a sort symbol). That will let you set time limits similar to those mentioned in this post (e.g. 3 hours, 6 hours, 12 hours, 1 day, 1t (is 1 week).

Microblogs
Its also worth looking at the 'microblogs' feature under /sub as that will focus on mastodon messages/kbin microblogs with hashtags associated with your magazines/communities.

You can ask KBin to subscribe to people you find through Mastodon, due to the rate changes various twitter users are migrating around. I find KBin a nicer way to read their content.

this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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