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?
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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.
I use Top 12, only need to check once a day.
See, if I had any kind of self-control, that would work out great! But…
All, Everything, sorted by Newest Comment.
This is objectively the best. Anyone who says otherwise is very, very wrong. 😌
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.
Mods watching votes is creepy
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.
i do this and i block/filter sources that give too much stuff i don’t want to see, like the 196*
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)
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.
What is Scaled, precious?
Scaled takes smaller communities into account and bumps their posts up so they don’t get buried by posts from larger communities with more engagement.
Edit: here are the descriptions:
Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time.
Hot: Like active, but uses time when the post was published.
Scaled: Like hot, but gives a boost to less active communitiesThank you, sounds interesting!
I always read subscribed communities by new.
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.
All the first comments saying they browse by new… 🤔
New then active
Scaled. But I wish there was a way to see all unread posts sorted oldest to newest.
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.
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.
I personally enjoy “new comments”, it’s a mix of new posts and recently commented on posts
My favorites are
- New or New Comments for Home
- Scaled or Top 6 hours for All
I’m a hottie.
I went by scaled on my previous instance because I enjoy seeing small communities posts as well and they easily drown otherwise.
However piefed doesn’t have that sorting :(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 !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
