Why YSK: Doing so can change your feed and experience drastically.

I typically sort by local/all: active, where I see a mixture of memes, news, and discussions. But I switched to all: hot, and I was shocked by just how homogeneous my feed became. It was pretty much entirely memes and computer discussion. Obviously this isn’t always the case. But, I could see someone who always sorts by hot not realizing the diversity of the site.

So, if you’re a little bored with your feed, or just want to see different posts, then try different sorting methods. Even if you’re not, try it anyway. You might like what you find - or you might go back to your default.

  • @FrankLaskey
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    1 year ago

    I seem to prefer top 6 hours personally. It gives you the most updated stuff but has a short enough time period so that you can still check it a few times a day and likely get different posts assuming you are subbed to a good number of active communities.

    • @DrQuint
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      51 year ago

      Yeah, Active and Hot are really good now at mixing new and active content, but when we had less activity or when something big is happening, things tend to get stuck there, and I basically end up having to scroll more than I should.

      Top 6/12 hours is the best if I just wanna see what’s actually trending for the day and move on.

  • LemmyLefty
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    141 year ago

    Also for whatever reason Hot has been dredging up posts from 2-3 years ago.

    • @makeshiftreaper
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      31 year ago

      From what I can tell it happens when someone posts a comment on old posts

  • @Strangle
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    71 year ago

    There are way too many memes and that weird 196 community on my hot feed

    I’ve blocked the communities I don’t want to see on Memmy but they keep showing up

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Me too then I realized they were duplicate communities on other instances. Just blocked them too and no more.

      • @Strangle
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        21 year ago

        Ohhhh this could be a game changer then! Ty

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      That’s weird, have you tried blocking them from the Web interface so that they will be blocked for you wherever you are?

      • @Strangle
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        11 year ago

        I tried the lemmy web app and Memmy neither of which Ed worked

        I can try in a browser too

  • @LiquidMastering
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    61 year ago

    This post has helped me more than anything on Lemmy yet. Thank you.

    So much better.

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    New comments is my favourite so far. Its a good mix of active discussions and fresh posts.

  • Jeena
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    41 year ago

    My default is actually “New”, I only manually change to Hot or Active if I want to see some comments and discussions.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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    21 year ago

    I stick with subscribed»new, so I don’t miss anything from the communities in which I’m interested.