Could you please add a “Why YSK:”? It’s rule #2. It’s also helpful for readability, and informs readers about the importance of the content. Thank you. :)
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Sort by topday since Hot is usually showing posts from 3 days ago
Depends on the instance. There was a bug that made hot stale, but several instances have fixed it. Hot gives me fresh results in lemmy.world. The only issue is the algorithm still needs work. It is closer to “rising” and has a tendency to bury posts on small communities.
It depends. I start with active, then hot, then new if I'm browsing for a long time. But usually active to hot is good.
I swap between hot and new. Active gets pretty stale.
I sort new as there isn't enough posts to justify going for hot.
When I do that the feed keeps reloading itself, making it very much unusable. Now I understand that to be a bug, but why advice something so broken?
It looks like Mlem sorts by Hot by default and I still get all these Reddit posts
LPT: if you want, you can change your default sort settings. Click on your profile in the top right corner > settings > type and sort type.
The real LPT is always in the comments!
(Guess I'm the first one to say that line here on Lemmy xD)
Maybe I'm not subscribed to enough communities, but New is what works for me. Hot and Active are always stale.
I prefer New Comments. Keeps the feed fresh with a good balance of new posts and active posts.
TopDay works best for me atm, Hot sometimes keeps posts that are days or at most a week old at the top of my feed
Until the websockest thing is fixed, I can't browse by that method. My feed gets shit on 2 seconds after loading.
Temp fix: Set page to 0 instead of 1 - https://lemmy.world/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/Hot/page/0. This stops the feed from auto updating