I still haven’t decided on whether top, hot or scaled is the best sort. I feel like all of them feels “wrong” somehow. Any ideas?

  • @[email protected]
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    All, Top 6 hours. Keeps me fairly up on things. If I feel like I’m hitting the same stuff, I’ll switch to Hot or Active.

    • @Jordan117
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      411 days ago

      I just wish it would prioritize the top from the last 6 hours while showing older stuff below. Because slower communities feel dead when you visit and see no posts (even if there was one seven hours ago).

    • @[email protected]
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      This is how I do it but be aware voting through this method leads to shitty mods banning you under the pretence of drive by voting. Doesn’t stop me but just FYI.

        • @[email protected]
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          Their justification is you’re not a participant in the community, yet you’re voting. Of course theres 0 reflection on the content coming out of their subs comm and it has no weight in the decision.

          For brigading I can understand but a couple of mods have a very low bar for it. One banned me recently because of it. Likely because two low effort post made it to all in a short window from a meat base comm. I’ve downvoted vegan post more often back in the early days and they dgaf.

          • kate
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            while bans are not something i’ve done, i’ve noticed a lot of downvotes in [email protected] from people that clearly haven’t checked what community the post is in

            • @[email protected]
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              For that comm I could see users downvoting it for a lot of the post being negative/rants but yeah it does happen when it isn’t deserved unfortunately. I just don’t think banning should be a knee jerk response as other mods have done.

          • @Voyajer
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            Funnily enough I was just banned and blocked by a mod when I commented on a post mentioning that they’ve accidentally reposted an image they’ve already submitted. Kind of surprised since I recognized the username and thought they were decent enough as a user.

      • @Voyajer
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        Mods watching votes is creepy

        • @[email protected]
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          I would be surprised if they haven’t automated it at this point. I’ve been meaning to post about it since it’s reeks of vote manipulation to me but I’ll give it some more time first.

    • lurch (he/him)
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      311 days ago

      i do this and i block/filter sources that give too much stuff i don’t want to see, like the 196*

    • Blastboom Strice
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      Ayy, this is the way (and once you view enough you switch to hot and then to active, then you exit and return in ~40seconds and start over)

  • @[email protected]
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    Subscribed and top 12 hours is what I’ve been going by for about a year now. After I’ve scrolled through that I switch to “all” from which I’ve blocked all the communities I’m not interested about.

  • @[email protected]
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    Scaled was a game-changer for me.

    I use scaled on web. Voyager can remember your sorts for different communities. I typically to use new for smaller communities and scaled for larger ones and the home feed.

    • @lordnikon
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      411 days ago

      Plus one for new it helps push up new posts from new people engaging with the platform.

  • Björn Tantau
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    Scaled. But I wish there was a way to see all unread posts sorted oldest to newest.

  • southsamurai
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    New.

    You get to see stuff early, you get less repeats, you have more chances at lucking into good conversations because you can comment and be way more likely to be seen, thus upping the chances of setting the vibe for any responses as opposed to jumping into stuff that’s already ongoing.

    Plus, in most apps, you can tell when you’re back to things you’ve already seen easier. You don’t run across a post that’s marked read and have to keep scrolling anyway.

    Now the downside is that you see the bad stuff early too. And, if you don’t want to engage and would rather be able to leave short comments that only OP will see, it’s harder.

    I’ve tried all the sort methods, and only new gives me the kind of experience I enjoy.

  • @[email protected]
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    I like Top of the last 6 hours. In the Old Place I did Top of the last hour, but it’s a little slower here. If I can’t bear to read the article (too often these days) I can go straight to the comments and there will be some. If I run out of blue posts, or want to catch an unfolding event, I switch to Hot.

  • asudox
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    Scaled. Though your feed will be filled with posts from the same community if that community suddenly started posting lots of posts and is a new one. It happened to me with [email protected]

  • CurlyWurlies4All
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    311 days ago

    Always Top 6 Hours or Top Day. Never hot. Not sure what the deal with hot is, but I agree it feels wrong.