Or just hide read posts?
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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I like to go back to old posts so I can read the new comments on them.
Sort by new and push good content up
I do that as well.
This is the way.
This is the way.
Make sure you push down Monk and his army of side characters too.
I love Adrian Monk, he is my favorite TV detective.
Top - Past 6 Hours is what I prefer. Keeps it fresh, but filters out a little of the spam
I'm a fan of "Top six hour" it refreshes often enough to see intersting tidbits throughout the day but not so much that I'm checking every twenty minutes!
Sometimes it's been a while since I last checked the feed and I go for Top 12 hours
Top comment was sponsored by Top Six Hour Gang
I do "top day" because its not healthy to check this shit more than once per day.
Oh lord don't I know it!
Just tried that and scrolled through seen posts until it ended. I expected it to start off with hottest of the last 6 hours, but is it only the last 6 hours? I guess I don't have enough communities
Yeah, it's the top posts that were posted in the last six hours. Unless you have a pretty wide sub list it's usually better if you do it for everything/all, eg. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=TopSixHour . Otherwise top 12 hour or top day is usually good
Thanks. I'll take it as a jump off to diversify again. I stuck to joined communities because my feed was getting steamrolled by dumb, socially adverse, or majorly irrelevant communities. My original communities probably also died off, too.
Could also try sorting by top 6 hour.
Also use the hide read posts setting
Depends on how you want to use Lemmy. When using it as a link aggregator, you'd probably want to hide the stuff you've already clicked on. But as a discussion forum, it doesn't hurt to go back to threads you've already seen to see what new comments have been made since.
They still come back
They do not. Are you using Sync for Lemmy? It's broken and doesn't hide properly
Voyager. I've had the issue since always
Might be worth bringing it up in the voyager community. That definitely shouldn't be the case.
Active is the worst one I have no idea why it's the default.
It gives the illusion of more people being on lemmy.
Personally, I like "Scaled" and "Hot" the most, but I also check "New" to discover communities that may otherwise get lost (and, to ban spam/bot/troll accounts along the way as well) - and lastly, I also have a look at "Top/Day" at least once a day, to see what's the "talk of the town".
It definitely feels like we had some growth in proper, organic activity. Just a few months ago, it definitely felt like "Top/12hrs" was the best one for the amount of content that was being posted. But for a while now, "Hot" and "Scaled" feel much better than that one.
Scaled gives me some super niche posts with two or three upvotes sandwiched between the same posts I see when I sort by active, which is not always bad but not necessarily what I want either. If I feel like I need content I go for new or top 6/12/24 hr.
Top 6 hours
This is the way, every now and then mix in top 1 hour
i usually do hot / subscribed and if I run dry, i do all
and if that runs dry, i do scales... sometimes I will try other stuff but that's usually good enough
But then you'll be flooded by 0 comments posts.
Maybe if you sort by new. Try sorting by "new comments"
Sorting by hot also does that. It's just broken.
New Comments is the best way to sort if you want to actually talk.
Agree.
Also if you don't want to manually switch it all the time, go into your account settings and change the sort type to whatever you prefer. Similar should apply in apps, with a bonus: some apps will let you change default comment sort setting as well.
But doctor…I am Pagliacci.
top last time i checked lemmy
And if you get sick of seeing the same post multiple times on the page, give PieFed a go. It stacks the multiple comments under the one item instead.
I like Scaled when I want exposure to things outside my bubble but not brave enough for New
There's nothing wrong with leaving New to the professionals.
The shit we've seen...
Sort by new.
It indeed is often the same 5 - 8 posts because everything else gets hidden by politics word filters.
Or, if on mbin, do that in reverse (at least in my case; hot stays stagnant but active is always changing).
Insert the Hank Hill meme:
"If those kids could sort by hot they would be very upset, right now."