Local feed sorted by New

new, always new

New | All

A great way to find new and interesting content only if you've got a good block list set up.

What kind of people set their default feed sort to old 😭

First commenters are always “new”😆

New, on my subscribed communities

Mbin but all and active (I rarely filter to just subscribed and I stead just block communities I don't care for)

Hot, then new

New, Subscribed

New: There's a limited enough amount of content presently being submitted in the areas that I'm interested in that I don't feel the need to try to use votes to filter out things. It's not impossible that I'd move to something that accounts for votes in the long run, but it's not enough of a torrent yet.

Subscribed: I don't believe that trying to view All and then blacklisting everything that you don't want scales well. People can add communities all the time, and inevitably --- there's a huge amount of stuff out there --- a lot of it isn't stuff that I'm going to be interested in. It's like trying to blacklist the Internet --- means a constant game of whack-a-mole. Also, "All" will only see communities that are either local to your home instance or where another user on your home instance has already subscribed to things, so especially on smaller instances, you may never see something that you're interested in that someone does create. I follow !newcommunities@lemmy.world, !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and hit https://lemmyverse.net/communities occasionally to find new communities of interest.

Top 6 hours

“Active” on Home, when I run out of stuff, “Hot” on Home. If I get really desperate, “Hot” on All.

Mostly Subscribed-New, and I will check All-New when I have way too much free time.

Sounds like it might be a good dating strategy too.

Also a good way to start building or expanding the aforementioned block list

Scaled | Subscribed

I find this effectively acts as "new" for small communities, and "hot" for big ones.

Subscribed - Active first usually, I like reading comments.

Then if I'm bored at work Top of Day - All with a variety of USA specific word filters set to Dim in Piefed if the post mentions Trump etc for example. I don't outright hide those posts but I'm not a big fan of doomscrolling a country I don't live in too often. Makes it easy to avoid unless I make an actual effort to read the dimmed post title.

then new.

Dating strategy

This one right here FBI...

Oh... Right... the FBI doesn't care about that stuff anymore.

I'm not using Lemmy, but my default sort is set to "Active". Gives me the most interesting feed imo.
Well, comments use "hot".

That said, I don't usually browse. I have a bunch of users and communities set to notify me on new posts, and I usually already get too many notifications that I don't also feel like browsing the site after looking at them all. Really changed my view of how active the fediverse is.

One tab with subscribed/new, another tab with all/hot.

Subscribed: top 12 hours

Local: top week

All: top 6 hours

If you want to see everything and also arrive at a thread already populated with good juicy comments.

This is the best way to see what’s there. Then, get a block list started.

Hot for posts, but new for comments. Lets me catch good comments that come later in a post's life

Subscribed - New - if I'm subscribed, I'm going to look at all of it, so new is best.

All - Top/6hrs - All I'm looking for what has been interesting to others, maybe find a new subscription, maybe looking at things I don't want to subscribe to (like some political news comms, where I want to read but dont want it to take over my subscription feed).

Local - Scaled - just handy for finding interesting local comms IMO.

All top 6 hrs. I usually browse Lemmy twice a day and it tends to let me see most everything.

All>Scaled or Active.

Great idea. I'm gonna use that.

I didn't realize you could do that. I do get tired of the US centered posts. They seem so angry and frustrated. I don't need that.

My main gripe is them overflowing into global communities not intended for politics and posting even more US politics anyways like we all need to see ugly pedophile faces more often than we see our own loved ones.

Yeah the Piefed filters are a great feature. You can outright make filtered posts (and comments!) invisible but I do like to stay informed within reason, just uh...when I consent to.

Whatever is set as default for Voyager (I think it's active)

Amen. You preach it. I'll turn the pages.

Same! However I'm starting to find there is now a lot more content and I could actually start using joined communities instead of /all

Home by new. All by top 6h.

i cycle between this and new comments, good mix of heavy hitters and diverse diaspora

i like the new comment sort since it's like a hybrid of new and active. yes, 0 comment posts will show up there.

New comment gives me too many really old posts, like 3 to 7 days old, and there aren't all that many new comments on them, if you get the posts in the first 6 hours or so you are more likely to get more engagement, which is often the idea unless you are fishing for interesting articles.

What do you mean block list? Why block who? I haven't blocked anyone. If someone is a dick I either be a dick back and or ignore them, works for me.

Or are you blocking types of posts? Because there is a lot of dumb like naked pictures bot posted from reddit, if I want porn I've better places to find it, and don't have to worry about accidently clicking on a picture I don't want to see so much.

Top -> 6 hours

Block lists meaning communities, instances and filter words.

Some days I do too much Lemmy scrolling, so i keep it at top 12h so i am less likely to hit the bottom.

i appreciate the old ones! it's interesting to see why someone would revive an old post, and there are some (usually active community drama) that can keep going for days and wouldn't show up anywhere else.

it occurs to me this most closely mimics old web forum sorts.

The bottom is kind of fun though, it gets weird.

Same. All, either Top 6 or Top 12, with the occasional Top 24 (Today) if I've been busy and feel I need to catch up.

im not sure how it translates to base lemmy as I am using tesseract, but Subscribed / scaled is the endpoint it uses which I believe just means subscribed communities only sorted by scoring(hot?)? I'm not entirely sure how it works I just know that it works good for me.

Agreed, I really prefer it for that as well

New, so I don't just see the same stuff as yesterday. I leave comments on hot, but I usually read though them all anyway.

New - simple chronological order is unambiguous

It would be the same every day though.

Not defending sorting by old bc that’s crazy, but there is an option to automatically hide posts you vote on or open to read, so you wouldn’t necessarily be looking at the same thing. You would however be reading months or years old posts and comments and it’d be a little strange to try and respond to anything.

Subscribed/New most of the time, but I check All/Active every once in a while to see if there's any drama going on.

Sometimes I'll hit All/Scaled when I'm really desperate.