Top Day seems to be working well for me. Since things generally move a bit slower on here than the Reddit firehose, Top Day gives you a nice blend of newer stuff plus stuff that has some active discussions going on
I set top day subscribed, go through a few new subscribed, go on kbin, set it to hot defederated, hot federated, quickly skim the microblog threads on there, go on lemm.ee, visit hot and active subscribed (they have applied a fix to the active problem on this one that shows days old posts), and then I go through many of the communities I'm subscribed to and go through active, hot, new, etc., and basically see what's up.
I basically mentioned all the sorting methods right? But what's the best one, you ask? Probably kbin by hot local and hot federated. And on Lemmy itself, probably lemm.ee hot. And on this instance, probably new for subscribed and top day for sub, local and all.
:) it's a pretty good descriptor for me: irreverent, irreligious, enormous ego, habits of creation... It also makes any joke funnier. And people call me God. What's not to like 😂
Yeah, active and hot are kinda broken, and now devs are really busy trying to fix performance issue, so for some time it's either New or Top. I usually use New
I like to have it set to "all" and "new comments".
There is some movement but its slow enough to be usable.
Also posts which are very active are more likely to appear there but you still see some newer stuff.
I really hope the "hot" and "active" algorithms will be fixed soon though.
I go by new. Obviously the content level here is not Reddit-esque yet, so it’s still remarkably manageable to do this way. At some point, I imagine (hope?) needing to shift to “hot” or “active,” but that time hasn’t come for me, yet.
On the instances where hot is working, I think it does work pretty nicely for this. Hopefully it'll be up and working everywhere very soon with the next update. When I'm on an account with an instance where it's not working, I tend to switch between top-day and new. Going into individual communities as well you can easily see what was popular.
Active is broke in the current version. Top of the day usually shows active posts, but only one page. New shows multiple pages, but the shown posts don'thave much traction.