Lemmy’s default sort is “Active”, which means that the most active threads will stay at the top of the frontpage, which can make the same few threads stay for ages. It does give the impression that lemmy is more active though.
But then you’ll be flooded by 0 comments posts.
Maybe if you sort by new. Try sorting by “new comments”
Sorting by hot also does that. It’s just broken.
Or, if on mbin, do that in reverse (at least in my case; hot stays stagnant but active is always changing).
It indeed is often the same 5 - 8 posts because everything else gets hidden by politics word filters.
Also if you don’t want to manually switch it all the time, go into your account settings and change the sort type to whatever you prefer. Similar should apply in apps, with a bonus: some apps will let you change default comment sort setting as well.
Personally, I like “Scaled” and “Hot” the most, but I also check “New” to discover communities that may otherwise get lost (and, to ban spam/bot/troll accounts along the way as well) - and lastly, I also have a look at “Top/Day” at least once a day, to see what’s the “talk of the town”.
It definitely feels like we had some growth in proper, organic activity. Just a few months ago, it definitely felt like “Top/12hrs” was the best one for the amount of content that was being posted. But for a while now, “Hot” and “Scaled” feel much better than that one.
Scaled gives me some super niche posts with two or three upvotes sandwiched between the same posts I see when I sort by Top, which is not always bad but not necessarily what I want either. If I feel like I need content I go for new or popular 6/12/24 hr.
Or just hide read posts?
Active is the worst one I have no idea why it’s the default.
It gives the illusion of more people being on lemmy.
Sort by new and push good content up
I do that as well.
This is the way.
This is the way.
Make sure you push down Monk and his army of side characters too.
I love Adrian Monk, he is my favorite TV detective.
Top - Past 6 Hours is what I prefer. Keeps it fresh, but filters out a little of the spam
scaled is my favourite
Could also try sorting by top 6 hour.
Sort by new.
I like
Scaledwhen I want exposure to things outside my bubble but not brave enough forNewThere’s nothing wrong with leaving New to the professionals.
The shit we’ve seen…
top last time i checked lemmy
And if you get sick of seeing the same post multiple times on the page, give PieFed a go. It stacks the multiple comments under the one item instead.
i usually do hot / subscribed and if I run dry, i do all
and if that runs dry, i do scales… sometimes I will try other stuff but that’s usually good enough
Insert the Hank Hill meme:
“If those kids could sort by hot they would be very upset, right now.”
