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?

  • CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

    I do All - Scaled. I’ll switch to New if I feel like I’m seeing a lot of repeat content. I’ve had to block a few bots (the reddit reposters are particularly egregious) and communities I don’t really care for.

  • Tower@lemm.ee
    31·
    9 hours ago

    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@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      7 hours 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).

  • guy@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    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 :(

    • CTDummy@lemm.ee
      111·
      10 hours ago

      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.

        • CTDummy@lemm.ee
          3·
          8 hours ago

          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.

        • CTDummy@lemm.ee
          3·
          8 hours ago

          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.

    • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyz
      2·
      9 hours ago

      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)

  • Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
    11·
    10 hours ago

    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.

  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    9 hours ago

    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.

  • breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca
    6·
    10 hours ago

    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.

      • breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca
        4·
        5 hours ago

        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 communities

        https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html