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.
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
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For the past two days I actually haven’t seen any outdated posts by sorting “hot”.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.
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
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.
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.
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).
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
I don’t understand what “Hot” sorts by. When I use that setting, I see a bunch of threads from a few minutes ago with no comments yet. How is that “hot”?
I've always thought it's the amount of upvotes a post is getting and how quickly it's getting them
I think Hot seems kind of bugged?
Hot sorting is not hot #1748 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1748
Does anyone know how to short comments by top default.
That's how I am finding your post. 👌
I find All > New brings up a lot of content. Local is okay for lemmy.world but there's a lot on federated servers too, which is sort of the whole idea of lemmy so I wouldn't want to leave those out. It also seems there isn't enough of a difference between Hot and Active.
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.
Thanks! This helped me.
Thank you for the tip! I've been trying to figure out how to find instances and add them which is a whole nother thing..one step at to figure it out.
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