I would love a hybrid of my subscriptions and top posts. I'm still settling in from Reddit and I'm still to find out what's out there.
Getting to grips with how to search for and find communities.
I just searched for some of the bigger servers, opened the communities
tab and subbed every community I found remotely interesting. Was about 2-3h of work.
Being a smaller platform where the points don't matter does make the "new" experience more enjoyable.
I'm using top in 12 hours, which fits better when you browse in the morning and in the evening.
I believe that it should be the other way around.
You have too much life, so you frivolously spend it on Lemmy.
Those with no life don't have time for their own interests and hobbies.
That aside, understandable, have a good day.
I appreciate how deeply weird Hot is. Doesn’t take much scrolling before I see posts from months ago.
The only thing I see now are memes. That's what I dislike currently about Lemmy. People aren't active in other communities most of the time. I am not here to enjoy a instagram-like feed, I am here to read and discuss, like in the forums.
This is one thing that Lemmy REALLY needs to work on. The hobby- and topic-specific communities need to grow. Lemmy is currently dominated by like 5-10 communities, which is fine, but it really falls short of the experience I had on Reddit in that regard.
I am pretty excited to slowly repost all my old content here over the course of several months to reap all those fake internet points again. It isn't reposting if it is a new website.
My Fediverse experience became exponentially superior once I learned that the default sorting options were a bit shite compared to the alternatives.
I wish Hot had a bit less post decay, it would be close to perfect then. Active doesn't surface new posts often enough for me
Hot prefers newer posts that are gaining votes and comments. Top prefers the most votes within a specific timeframe.
The Lemmy documentation explains the different sort options pretty well: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
The difference between "Hot" and "Active" is probably the most confusing to most users.
I'm the kind of person thats comfortable with scrolling past hardcore porn on a crowded bus. I'm not a religious man, it's just nature taking it's course.
Good for you i guess. Just dont get berated by some annoying lady thats behind ya or wathever.
In the city worst things than that have happened and no one bats an eye. I've seen a homeless man wash his junk in the quick trip sink. I've seen a crate of homemade molotov cocktails just setting on the front porch. I've witnessed someone pull a gun out on someone else just for honking in traffic.
Ok..? I dont think that has anything to do with scrolling past porn in public but wattever.
Idk, I don't know why it's a problem for you and I don't really care. I'm kinda bored of the subject anyway.😁
Nah, dont worry about it, its no problem. Just pointed out that i thought it was kinda random. If yah wanna keep talking then i can hear ya. Cities can be kinda wild sometimes. The one im at right now has had wild shit happened like bombings on multiple gas stations in the same day. A bridge was taken by the river with people on it and i once took a buss and it ran over a biker in a motorcicle.
I assume you're just joking, but does that feature even exist in any Lemmy clients? Seems like the number of servers that don't allow downvotes would make it useless anyway.
This is something that could be added to a client some day even if it won't work on some instances. I'd use it on occasion.
It wouldn't work on posts with more than 50 comments, unfortunately. That's something the back-end has to offer.
... unless the client decides to proxy all calls and make its own aggregate...
I swap between top 24/12/6 depending on how long I'm away.
6 gets shitty because you start getting the random porn pretty quickly.
"This flu in China might be really bad" - 3 years ago
"A new breakthrough that's shaking physics to its core" - 4 years ago
"Trump may not get away with it this time" - 2 years ago
Aww yeah, the feed is lit tonight! Something new to read!
It's easy for really old posts to get necro'd in Active sort. Not necessarily a bad thing, but if you use the "feed" to keep up with the latest then it'll cloud your listings a bit. A lot of people don't look at the post date right away (especially those of us from alien site since we're still operating on old habits).
Hot also had a bug that pushed old posts up, IIRC? Maybe i'm thinking of Active; I can't remember off the top of my head as I type this. Anyway I think Active is based on recent comment activity and Hot is based on recent voting activity. Nothing wrong with either, but I am honestly appreciating the "Top X hours" methods to keep up with recent news and events and to keep things fresh.
We're still in the "oh shit activity has increased by a factor of a thousand, we need to make the database not crash" phase of development of Lemmy (and kbin) so I'd expect that eventually the feed sorts will be looked at and tweaked. Just needs a bit of attention to get what you are looking for at the moment.
Honestly that makes a ton of sense to me. The only real/sort of real problem I have with the sort from the "last X hours" is that I feel like as someone who doesn't regularly check the site I would miss a lot of posts I wouldn't normally see. That's just my perspective. Thanks for the insight though.
A tip if you're used to old reddit and use desktop, check out old.lemmy.world. It as a dark mode like reddit enhancement suite adds to old reddit, and everything is exactly where I expect it to be based on my reddit experience. Since you're already using a lemmy.world account, it'll just work for you straight away.
Oh and also, you'll see that you can list things as "all," "local," or "subscribed." You can pretty much ignore local, and use all or subscribed as your main page.
This! Lemmy became so much comfortable by using old.lemmy.world, almost all withdrawal symptoms went away.