YSK: Sorting by 'Hot' instead of 'Active' will show more diverse content on Lemmy

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.

Sorting by "Top -> 6 Hours" has been best for me so far

I started sorting by day because of seeing stuff from days ago thay hasn't been touched. Active and hot have been broken.

Wish we had a "rising" option. That was my fav on reddit

Hot for discovery.

Active to check in on ongoing discussions.

Use both, they are for different things.

The sorting algorithm still needs some work.

Seems you also sometimes get resurrected 1Y+ necro posts in 'Hot', but otherwise yeah you get a lot more post diversity

Sort by New Comments if you wanna go back to the way old forums work where new posts and posts with new comments get pushed right to the top and decay based on getting pushed down by other new and active topics of discussion. If you do it while browsing All, you will always see the hottest topics that are active.

I always sort by All and New. In fact it's my default feed setting on my Liftoff app.

I love the TOP x hours sort. My default is 6 but if I notice seeing the same content, top 1 hour fixes that

I prefer Top Hour. It filters out the junk.

I have no idea what I am doing on Lemmy but I'm just loving the vibes.

Yes, I discovered it yesterday, but while now the content is new every time, IMO its quality has decreased a lot (mainly memes, shower thoughts or news about Reddit or Musk).

I sort by TopDay and that seems to get me quite popular content, but Hot is also good for new stuff. Love the options for sorting on Connect for Lemmy

Does anyone know how to short comments by top default.

I think Hot seems kind of bugged?

Hot sorting is not hot #1748 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1748

I don’t understand what “Hot” sorts by. When I use that setting, I see a bunch of threads from a few minutes ago with no comments yet. How is that “hot”?

That's how I am finding your post. 👌

I find All > New brings up a lot of content. Local is okay for lemmy.world but there's a lot on federated servers too, which is sort of the whole idea of lemmy so I wouldn't want to leave those out. It also seems there isn't enough of a difference between Hot and Active.

Mind if I ask a stupid question? I’m seeing lemm.ee more and more thanks to Memmy displaying it under usernames. How is it different from lemmy.world? Sorry if this should be obvious, still getting used to the fediverse.

Thanks! This helped me.

Thank you for the tip! I've been trying to figure out how to find instances and add them which is a whole nother thing..one step at to figure it out.

Lol glad this was posted. I figured it out the 2nd day (July 2nd) but I'm GLAD it was finally confirmed with this and wasn't just a placebo

Also, changing your front page from local only/subscribed to all will show you all posts your instance can see.

In a browser go into your lemmy settings and enable hiding posts you read I think rn that only will hide it if you vote on a post. In addition to that, wefwef has gestures so i can hide a post i dont want to vote on with a swipe. In result I always see new posts on active / hot

Hot and Active singles in your area are waiting to chat.

I only found this post because I finally sorted by hot instead of active.

There are also new “top” options, and really “new” isn’t a bad option.

I like/dislike the seen posts to mark them as seen and mave my account configured to hide seen posts. No duplicates.

I prefer sorting by active to se posts with more comments.

Can I make it sort by hot by default?

Found this through hot lol

"New" lets you get even more diverse content.

That's pretty hot. 🔥 🔥

Hot subscribed is my default but I cycle through all the different sort settings. Thanks to lemmycommunityseeder I have a All feed that’s populated like a bigger instance on my personal instance

I switch between hot and new. Then I'll sort by new comments. Then top if I'm really out of new stuff.

This should be a pinned post lmao

I try to only follow the communities on my instance. I don't like having the delays between one instance and others so I'll just stick to this place where it's all in real time

Plus if any defederation happens it has less impact

When I first got here, I found hot was showing a lot of older posts but that seems less the case as time goes on. I think it's a question of more and more new content appearing now with communities starting to flourish, so it doesn't fall back on the older stuff as much? It's a good sign!

that's fantastic, much better