The problem with sorting by hot, at least on my instance, is that I always seem to wind up looking at a post from years ago mixed in with more recent stuff. That's not a problem per se, but I find myself almost responding to a conversation that happened a long time ago.

Sorting by "Top -> 6 Hours" has been best for me so far

I started sorting by day because of seeing stuff from days ago thay hasn't been touched. Active and hot have been broken.

Wish we had a "rising" option. That was my fav on reddit

Hot for discovery.

Active to check in on ongoing discussions.

Use both, they are for different things.

The sorting algorithm still needs some work.

Seems you also sometimes get resurrected 1Y+ necro posts in 'Hot', but otherwise yeah you get a lot more post diversity

Sort by New Comments if you wanna go back to the way old forums work where new posts and posts with new comments get pushed right to the top and decay based on getting pushed down by other new and active topics of discussion. If you do it while browsing All, you will always see the hottest topics that are active.

I always sort by All and New. In fact it's my default feed setting on my Liftoff app.

I love the TOP x hours sort. My default is 6 but if I notice seeing the same content, top 1 hour fixes that

I prefer Top Hour. It filters out the junk.

I have no idea what I am doing on Lemmy but I'm just loving the vibes.

Yes, I discovered it yesterday, but while now the content is new every time, IMO its quality has decreased a lot (mainly memes, shower thoughts or news about Reddit or Musk).

I sort by TopDay and that seems to get me quite popular content, but Hot is also good for new stuff. Love the options for sorting on Connect for Lemmy

Does anyone know how to short comments by top default.

I don’t understand what “Hot” sorts by. When I use that setting, I see a bunch of threads from a few minutes ago with no comments yet. How is that “hot”?

I think Hot seems kind of bugged?

Hot sorting is not hot #1748 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1748

That's how I am finding your post. 👌

I find All > New brings up a lot of content. Local is okay for lemmy.world but there's a lot on federated servers too, which is sort of the whole idea of lemmy so I wouldn't want to leave those out. It also seems there isn't enough of a difference between Hot and Active.

Mind if I ask a stupid question? I’m seeing lemm.ee more and more thanks to Memmy displaying it under usernames. How is it different from lemmy.world? Sorry if this should be obvious, still getting used to the fediverse.

Thanks! This helped me.

Thank you for the tip! I've been trying to figure out how to find instances and add them which is a whole nother thing..one step at to figure it out.

Lol glad this was posted. I figured it out the 2nd day (July 2nd) but I'm GLAD it was finally confirmed with this and wasn't just a placebo