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I haven't seen a thread on this in a while. I have been going with top day for a while, but it can be hit or miss. Other sorts don't seem to display as good in terms of balancing quality and quantity. What is your preferred sort for your main feed?

Edit: Realizing that the people who sort new commented before the hot/top/active people, haha

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (4 children)

New.

I like to rawdog Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

unironically, your votes have great influence on the fate of posts

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Been sorting new all my life on reddit and I've been using Boost forever so now I use Boost and sort by new. I enjoy not seeing the same shit over and over.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I don't subscribe to enough communities (yet) to have the luxury of sorting by anything other than "new", or else I'll run out of content

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Sorting by new is the way to go!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

/s to be sure

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Bogo sort. It has a chance to get it right in almost no time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Just whatever is the default sort. It's usually mergesort or quicksort depending on the environment. No way I'm implementing my own

/s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Stochastic sort. I love chaos monkeys.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MagicShel 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I could've written this. Same answers, same reasoning. Word for word.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Me too. I feel a little unsettled if i don't get all the way through new by lunch, like i have a bigger task ahead of me after work.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Scaled sort usually gives good results.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I didn't even know this existed. Is this new?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Kinda, it was only added a couple months ago

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

It's a great balance between new and hot! You mostly see posts that picked up some interest within the first couple minutes of being posted

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Scaled sort on subscribed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That's my back up plan after Top 12 hours on Everything gets stale.

[–] riskable 8 points 3 months ago

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 🀷

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Subscribed|Active

I want posts where people are talking u-u

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

sub: top 12 hours, all: top 6 hours

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I like it hot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Subscribed, new. Then All, Top 6 hours.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Top day until it's stale, then hot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

All new because there is a lot of shit, different languages & country/place threads that i find interesting.

....and german memes...many, many german memes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Active -> New -> Controversial πŸ’€

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Tip 12 Hours works pretty well for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
  • Posts > New
  • Comments > Top

good comments are upvoted for a reason and I wanna see those first... before scrolling to the bad takes... haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Hot but I sometimes switch to New

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Local new first, then all new.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

New most of the time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I usually use the C standard library qsort function.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[–] rotmulaaginskyrim 1 points 3 months ago

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