How do you get a better front page on Lemmy without so much old stuff?
How do you get a better front page on Lemmy without so much old stuff?
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.
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
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.
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."
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 remember reading that there is a bug with Hot and Active at the moment where older posts keep a high priority for too long. It's supposed to be addressed in the v.0.18 release in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, I use New or Top Daily. Not perfect but it gives fresher content.
With the current amount of users sorting by new seems to still work quite well. That's how I found this thread too.
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.
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 updatesSorting 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.
Sort by new is still pretty good right now.
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.
I’m on kbin but it’s still not great
Really? I'm on kbin too and with hot and all settings I don't see anything older than 2 hours on the first page.