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.
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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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
signed up on lemmee, will try it out, thanks :) maybe that's the fix! :D
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 Yetβ’, 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."
:) 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!
Bruh you're talking to [email protected]. He couldn't lurk if he were paid a million bucks to do so. This dude has shit to say.
I didn't vote for him.
you voted with your silence!!!! i am the ruler of all, why didn't you say anything 1 quintillion years ago when i declared myself king of existence? now it is too late, you should've spoken up, this is a democracy after all π₯°
<3 was i noticed
or wasnt i
or was i
π» 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?
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 just realized that this post was 16 days 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.
Same
I use this URL in a bookmark:
https://lemmy.ml/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/Subscribed/sort/New/page/1
This gives me new posts from my subscribed communities sorted by creation date.
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 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.
ahh gotcha that makes sense thanks for the correction :)
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
Sorting by new is working well for me. There may come a day when Lemmy communities have so much content that it's too much for me to browse, but we're not there yet. I'm sure when that day comes, though, Hot and Active will be better methods.
Sort by new is still pretty good right now.
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.
Sort by either new or top today
If youβre feeling adventurous select all and sort by new/top today
All>new is my fav so far. Lots of stuff I wouldn't have found otherwise.
Go to kbin and sort by top 3hr
kbin seems to have issues loading images from other instances.
Kbin's feels like it almost updates too fast lol