I find that Hot and Active give you really old stuff, at least on my instance, that’s like 3-7 days old stuff. New is just new, you know new, no community-assured quality. Top is stuff I’ve already seen. Where do I get a better feed? Can we have like Top 7 hours? Or a mixture of “top 16 hours” and “active”?

What do you do when browsing Lemmy? What are some of your strategies to get good shit while being here? Cuz so far if I try and use the front pages I get bored to shit.

The way I get anything barely worth interacting with from the front page is New Comments. Not the best, but better than the other options I discussed.

That or just, instead of interacting with a lot of stuff, interacting deeply with the few things I find that I like.

  • SolidGrue@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • SolidGrue@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.”

      • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
        1·
        1 year ago

        :) I have thought that, and then I forget it, then I think about it again, it’s hard not to fall back to lurker. Then again, I do provide a shitton of content a lot of the time, I just haven’t gotten the hang of doing it even more!

      • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
        12·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • hyper@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Sort by either new or top today

    If you’re feeling adventurous select all and sort by new/top today

    • God@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Zamboniman@lemmy.ca
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.