New.

I like to rawdog Lemmy.

Bubble sort. It's the only one I really understand and know how to implement.

/s to be sure

I'm a masochist, so I usually do "New". Lemmy is small enough that I can usually get through most of the new posts in a reasonable amount of time.

That said, if I want to a bit chiller experience, I will use "Scaled" which sometimes bubbles up something I might have missed.

Finally, I will use "Active" if I'm really bored and what to see what most people are engaged with... but that is pretty rare.

All, Top for the past 6 hours. Sometimes in the morning I’ll switch it to 12 hours to see what I missed overnight and other times the week just to make sure. But I don’t subscribe to anything, give me all the best of Lemmy

quick sort on random input, insertion sort on almost-sorted inputs

Scaled sort usually gives good results.

Scaled sort on subscribed.

I used to use "top 24h" but these days I just sort by "hot" because it actually seems to work pretty well now: I don't see the total garbage that gets down voted immediately like you get with "new" but I see pretty much everything else (which is what I like; I especially like finding interesting posts in obscure communities!).

I also regularly block foreign language communities for no other reason than I can't read them so there's no point in them taking up space in my feed. Like, I'm sure that German meme about Elon Musk is hilarious but since I don't know German it's just noise 🤷

Subscribed|Active

I want posts where people are talking u-u

sub: top 12 hours, all: top 6 hours

this somewhat balances out feeds I missed on my subscribed list.

I switch between New, Hot and Top 6hrs/Day

Insertion Sort.

It's easier to remember how to program than quick sort and it's stable (it keeps the previous order for same value data)

Subscribed, new. Then All, Top 6 hours.

Top day until it's stale, then hot.

New, always.

No point in anything else for the way I prefer to use lemmy.

It also means that I don't miss much, even when I don't check in for a day or so. Only things I miss are the ones that get removed.

All, new. It keeps things fresh throughout my workday. I spend most of it on my own, and have a lot of points of 2-5 minute downtime. I end up sitting in the back office and browsing Lemmy pretty often.

Top 6 hours, then New, then top 12 hours.

Old I like to rehash and let things fester! Actually Hot, then look at Top last 6 hours while reading.

I'm pretty much always set to all, with hot being good for me most of the time. New and scaled are also nice ways to get some extra variety on slow days. I'll rarely use active and top if I've been away for a while

I do Active All by default, see what's popping. After i exhaust that I go by all Hot. I have a lot of communities filtered (mainly porn ones) to clean up my feed even though I also am subscribed to several communities. Lemmy is still small enough where I don't feel I need to only see my subs.

Hot, then once I've read everything switch to Active to check popular posts I missed, then back to Hot and there's usually some new stuff

new. sometimes i switch to others for a laugh, but new is my default.

Hot but I sometimes switch to New

New most of the time

Local new first, then all new.

Active

Active in my subbed communities and hide read posts, that usually gives me a similar experience that I had with Reddit (and using Boost or Sync for Reddit sometimes makes me forget where I am lol).

Sometimes I sort it to the top 6, 12 or 24 hours though.

Scaled is the default account sort as I find it the best when I am browsing Lemmy on a PC/Lap (which that would be like 1% of my total Lemmy usage, just like Reddit lol).

Recently changed to top.

Occasionally you’ll click on an article or photo and there’s a really important explanation or disclaimer as the most-upvoted comment, but you’ll only see that first if you sort by top.