I’ve seen a few mentions of people feeling like they’re constantly seeing the same content when sorting by active, I’ve since moved to hot, and I’m having a much better time.

  • Bilb!
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    1341 year ago

    The problem with sorting by hot, at least on my instance, is that I always seem to wind up looking at a post from years ago mixed in with more recent stuff. That’s not a problem per se, but I find myself almost responding to a conversation that happened a long time ago.

    • @[email protected]
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      561 year ago

      Tell your instance admin to restart the Lemmy service every so often. We have ours restart every six hours since that fixes the hot thing breaking and getting stale.

      Larger instances might not be able to restart often as it could leave some interactions in limbo.

      • Bilb!
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        251 year ago

        Thanks for the tip! And I happen to be the admin, lol. I’ll set a cron job to restart the lemmy container and see what changes.

          • @[email protected]
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            31 year ago

            You should know you’ll lose the outbound queue of interactions everytime you restart. I was also under the impression that the big this was supposed to be a work around for had been fixed in 0.18.

      • Nix
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        21 year ago

        What command do you use to restart the Lemmy service?

    • @CleffyHeft
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      81 year ago

      Sorting by hot also shows me a bunch of nsfw communities for some reason

      • Bilb!
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        221 year ago

        Oh, maybe lemmy.world is using another definition of “hot.” ;)

      • @[email protected]
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        181 year ago

        To be fair, r/all would always have tons of NSFW posts before reddit started filtering them from the front page ~2 years ago.