The "active" setting really fucks up the order.
Like you are reading a couple of posts, and when you go to the next page, you see the same posts because so many comments are made which put those posts at the top again.
Really want something like "hot for the last 24h" and then ordered by amount of comments in the last 24h.
The issue is that the sorting options are taken literally down to the algorithmic level. They really need to be tweaked to fit better with user expectations
Never seen anyone else mention this, but when I click a post on page 2 then go back, it shows the page 1 posts again. But because the URL is set up for page 2, clicking next goes to page 3. If I don't concentrate I end up reading one post from each page and missing 90% of my feed.
Does that mean you’re not impacted by any defederations and can subscribe to whatever you want?
Niiice. The entire Fediverse – especially my home instance – has been hitting that defederate button waaay too often lately.
Does this also mean you end up with copies of abusive media on your server?
Presumably it would only be an issue if one of the users in the server accessed it, and there are no other users
Thing is the way it works is, it only federated content from communities an account is subscribed to on that instance. Since there’s only my account, my all is like my subscribed. So it’s pretty empty.
It depends. Lemmy gives you pretty fine control if you put in the effort.
My home instance lemm.ee for example does not cache images from other instances, so any abusive material posted stays there even if viewed by a member of our instance.
Local New. Going to All or Subscribed is an epic trek to a foreign land to bring home luxurious news and spicy memes.
I start with my subscribed top 6 hour, then move to all, and often go to top 1 hour or new because I open Lemmy more than once every 6 hours. Occasionally I'll head over to active, that's mostly when I want to read lots of comments
All, top 6 hours, Blocklist full
Any new communities I see I sub to, but rarely use my subbed feed as it's still pretty dry.
I don't have much to contribute.
Active is my preferred sort method. It keeps the active discussions at the top, hot I’ll switch to occasionally after I’ve browsed enough of the active feed.
Must of my subscribed communities are small enough that I don’t think top 6 hours is distinct enough from active/hot
1st. Subscribed - New Comments
2nd. All - New Comments
3rd. All - New (desperate for new and interesting at this point)
4th. Inbox
5th. Find people who are wrong on the Internet (on Lemmy) and tell them why they are wrong
5 wouldn't have to happen if there was more good stuff to read, folks. :)