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.
Sorting 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.
I've done that, but my new feed, maybe it's a difference in which communities we follow, but my communities' New are not top quality but very eh.
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."
Bruh you're talking to God@sh.itjust.works. He couldn't lurk if he were paid a million bucks to do so. This dude has shit to say.
<3 was i noticed
or wasnt i
or was i
🌻 taking petals out of this flower to find out
Man you got almost 500 comments and 50 posts in 10 days. And you're funny. You're putting me to shame and I've really been trying.
Btw you ever watch My Mister?
You’re putting me to shame and I’ve really been trying.
😳
well i didn't know it was hard, maybe i'm just a shitposter cuz i don't think about it much, i just go for it, and i try not to leave any comment unanswered, even if the answer is only partial. i do have some training in shitpostery. It was at the shitposter special forces on steemit.com where you got money for shitposting a shitton. I guess I kept the habit of never shutting up cuz that's what brings dem monies over there.
Lmao hey man, whatever works. Sh.itpost away if it's stimulating engagement on this platform. We gotta get to at least a million users before I start to relax and feel like Lemmy is here to stay
I just realized that this post was 16 days ago...
Same
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.
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
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 updates
Sort by either new or top today
If you’re feeling adventurous select all and sort by new/top today
If you’re feeling adventurous
i am not! i am feeling stressed and i want a hug :) but i live alone so i will have to hug a pillow.
All>new is my fav so far. Lots of stuff I wouldn't have found otherwise.
What do you do when browsing Lemmy?
As I did with reddit, I sort by new and I follow interesting communities.
3-7 days old stuff
This may be a central problem with modern internet culture. 3-7 days is not old. You just think it is because you're used to being bombarded with new content every minute. It's always bothered me that it's somehow become somewhat of a faux-pas to comment on stuff that was posted more than 24 hours ago - that's ridiculous.
I get bored to shit
Follow better communities. Or do something else.
The idea of link aggregators is to operate like a daily newspaper, not a magazine at a doctors office. I don't want to see the same stories I read all week, I want to see the new things that are happening in the world, and in 2023, things move very fast. I'm still seeing posts about subs starting to close from the begining of the protests.
Then maybe you need to follow the RSS feeds of actual news sources.
the whole point of joining a "sub" is so that the community can gather relevant information on that topic and post it there. then the community also judges that content with the voting system. the goal being that everyone creates various information pipelines relevant to themselves that they then share with the community to form an additional pipeline. it's not like i don't go to direct news sources, but typically i would hear about virtually every topic they cover 12+ hours before on reddit. i typically get more in depth information about the topic, but reddit makes me aware of it nearly instantly.
Maybe it's the communities you're subscribed to. Personally, my front page is pretty filled. Take a look at https://lemmyverse.net/ to see communities from other instances.
What do you sort by? I'm already following around 40 communities. Maybe it is indeed which communities I follow and maybe I do need to follow more. I'll follow your advice and try to fill it up way more and see if that makes a difference (apart from making New an unreadable mess of fast-scrolling titles)
I have been sorting by "new comments." which is solid.
Also occaisonally just sorting by new
Lemmy can be sorted by new pretty safely, unlike reddit where you're gonna see some cursed shit sorting all by new
I just realized you're on the sh.itjust.works instance, which was defederated from Beehaw so that also doesn't help.
Reference: https://beehaw.org/post/567170
Beehaw blocked shitjustworks, but not in reverse. I can still see posts from Beehaw, but they won't be able to see our posts, replies, etc.
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