I find that Hot and Active give you really old stuff, at least on my instance, that’s like 3-7 days old stuff. New is just new, you know new, no community-assured quality. Top is stuff I’ve already seen. Where do I get a better feed? Can we have like Top 7 hours? Or a mixture of “top 16 hours” and “active”?
What do you do when browsing Lemmy? What are some of your strategies to get good shit while being here? Cuz so far if I try and use the front pages I get bored to shit.
The way I get anything barely worth interacting with from the front page is New Comments. Not the best, but better than the other options I discussed.
That or just, instead of interacting with a lot of stuff, interacting deeply with the few things I find that I like.
First, this isn’t reddit, sort by Subscribed / New.
Second, subscribe to stuff and don’t be afraid to subscribe at the same time to smaller communities on other instances. Yes, you cannot group them by topic Yet™, but it’s on the road map.
Following up:
Third: Don’t lurk! We need content here. Be a contributor, and don’t worry about what people think. Sieze your moment, and cry, “FIRST! I posted that here.”
:) I have thought that, and then I forget it, then I think about it again, it’s hard not to fall back to lurker. Then again, I do provide a shitton of content a lot of the time, I just haven’t gotten the hang of doing it even more!
Bruh you’re talking to [email protected]. He couldn’t lurk if he were paid a million bucks to do so. This dude has shit to say.
<3 was i noticed
or wasnt i
or was i
🌻 taking petals out of this flower to find out
Man you got almost 500 comments and 50 posts in 10 days. And you’re funny. You’re putting me to shame and I’ve really been trying.
Btw you ever watch My Mister?
You’re putting me to shame and I’ve really been trying.
😳
well i didn’t know it was hard, maybe i’m just a shitposter cuz i don’t think about it much, i just go for it, and i try not to leave any comment unanswered, even if the answer is only partial. i do have some training in shitpostery. It was at the shitposter special forces on steemit.com where you got money for shitposting a shitton. I guess I kept the habit of never shutting up cuz that’s what brings dem monies over there.
Lmao hey man, whatever works. Sh.itpost away if it’s stimulating engagement on this platform. We gotta get to at least a million users before I start to relax and feel like Lemmy is here to stay
I haven’t but if you say it’s good i’ll watch it. It’s on my recommended list sometimes but there’s just so much in it that it’s not owo. brb someone prayed for me
I didn’t vote for him.
you voted with your silence!!! i am the ruler of all, why didn’t you say anything 1 quintillion years ago when i declared myself king of existence? now it is too late, you should’ve spoken up, this is a democracy after all 🥰
Sigh. Shem, bubby… I was there too.
Maybe it’s the communities you’re subscribed to. Personally, my front page is pretty filled. Take a look at https://lemmyverse.net/ to see communities from other instances.
Is there a way to sort that avoids bigger communities taking over the feed? I get like 2 pages of 196 posts before I see anything else, because it’s way more active than any of my other subbed magazines.
I generally only get that issue with subscribed new, which is why I generally use subscribed hot
What do you sort by? I’m already following around 40 communities. Maybe it is indeed which communities I follow and maybe I do need to follow more. I’ll follow your advice and try to fill it up way more and see if that makes a difference (apart from making New an unreadable mess of fast-scrolling titles)
I just realized you’re on the sh.itjust.works instance, which was defederated from Beehaw so that also doesn’t help.
Reference: https://beehaw.org/post/567170
Beehaw blocked shitjustworks, but not in reverse. I can still see posts from Beehaw, but they won’t be able to see our posts, replies, etc.
ahh gotcha that makes sense thanks for the correction :)
I have been sorting by “new comments.” which is solid.
Also occaisonally just sorting by new
Lemmy can be sorted by new pretty safely, unlike reddit where you’re gonna see some cursed shit sorting all by new
I use subscribed hot generally. But sometimes I like to do subscribed new.
Sorting by top day helps. I have actually been sorting by new as well. Not as busy here as it is on Reddit, plus generally high quality so new stuff is pretty good.
I’ve done that, but my new feed, maybe it’s a difference in which communities we follow, but my communities’ New are not top quality but very eh.
It’s a bug, the admin of https://lemm.ee/ has fixed it on their instance. It will probably be fixed for everyone on the next release.
More info -> https://lemm.ee/comment/118526
signed up on lemmee, will try it out, thanks :) maybe that’s the fix! :D
I just realized that this post was 16 days ago…
Lmao some smaller instances still have fucked front pages but the bigger ones are solved already. You’re gonna have to either find a strat that works for you or move around to test stuff.
Same
Isn’t it just that the hot algorithm freezes and stops updating? https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076
I’m on kbin and the hot sorting works and it’s great for checking a few times a day since it actually updatesMAYBE SO, cuz i have the exact same things lol. maybe that’s the reason 😅 i was thinking of just making my own frontend to solve it but that’s a bit overkill and i’d have to scrape the fuck out of the servers’ apis to get better sorting and that’s a bit impolite.
I know there are plenty of fixes coming in the next version of Lemmy, and maybe some of these sorting issues will be…ahem…sorted out with that.
I use this URL in a bookmark:
https://lemmy.ml/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/Subscribed/sort/New/page/1
This gives me new posts from my subscribed communities sorted by creation date.
so new posts from subscribed communities, got it, how many communities do u follow? (i don’t need an exact number, just to know whether it’s more around 10 or more around 300)
Sort by either new or top today
If you’re feeling adventurous select all and sort by new/top today
All>new is my fav so far. Lots of stuff I wouldn’t have found otherwise.
If you’re feeling adventurous
i am not! i am feeling stressed and i want a hug :) but i live alone so i will have to hug a pillow.
Sorting by new is working well for me. There may come a day when Lemmy communities have so much content that it’s too much for me to browse, but we’re not there yet. I’m sure when that day comes, though, Hot and Active will be better methods.
Go to kbin and sort by top 3hr
Kbin’s feels like it almost updates too fast lol
kbin seems to have issues loading images from other instances.
What do you do when browsing Lemmy?
As I did with reddit, I sort by new and I follow interesting communities.
3-7 days old stuff
This may be a central problem with modern internet culture. 3-7 days is not old. You just think it is because you’re used to being bombarded with new content every minute. It’s always bothered me that it’s somehow become somewhat of a faux-pas to comment on stuff that was posted more than 24 hours ago - that’s ridiculous.
I get bored to shit
Follow better communities. Or do something else.
The idea of link aggregators is to operate like a daily newspaper, not a magazine at a doctors office. I don’t want to see the same stories I read all week, I want to see the new things that are happening in the world, and in 2023, things move very fast. I’m still seeing posts about subs starting to close from the begining of the protests.
Then maybe you need to follow the RSS feeds of actual news sources.
the whole point of joining a “sub” is so that the community can gather relevant information on that topic and post it there. then the community also judges that content with the voting system. the goal being that everyone creates various information pipelines relevant to themselves that they then share with the community to form an additional pipeline. it’s not like i don’t go to direct news sources, but typically i would hear about virtually every topic they cover 12+ hours before on reddit. i typically get more in depth information about the topic, but reddit makes me aware of it nearly instantly.
