I haven’t seen a thread on this in a while. I have been going with top day for a while, but it can be hit or miss. Other sorts don’t seem to display as good in terms of balancing quality and quantity. What is your preferred sort for your main feed?
Edit: Realizing that the people who sort new commented before the hot/top/active people, haha
- pnutzh4x0r ( @pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org ) English15•1 month ago
I’m a masochist, so I usually do “New”. Lemmy is small enough that I can usually get through most of the new posts in a reasonable amount of time.
That said, if I want to a bit chiller experience, I will use “Scaled” which sometimes bubbles up something I might have missed.
Finally, I will use “Active” if I’m really bored and what to see what most people are engaged with… but that is pretty rare.
- MagicShel ( @MagicShel@programming.dev ) 4•1 month ago
I could’ve written this. Same answers, same reasoning. Word for word.
- kia ( @kia@lemmy.ca ) English13•1 month ago
Scaled sort usually gives good results.
I didn’t even know this existed. Is this new?
- vrighter ( @vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ) 10•1 month ago
quick sort on random input, insertion sort on almost-sorted inputs
- dodgy_bagel ( @dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•1 month ago
Honestly, sorting algos are serious nerd shit. They’re for suckers and losers. If it’s not worth doing, insertion sort every day of the week. Compute is cheap. If it’s actually important, then it’s TimSort (it’s never important).
- ramble81 ( @ramble81@lemm.ee ) 9•1 month ago
All, Top for the past 6 hours. Sometimes in the morning I’ll switch it to 12 hours to see what I missed overnight and other times the week just to make sure. But I don’t subscribe to anything, give me all the best of Lemmy
- Riskable ( @riskable@programming.dev ) English6•1 month ago
I used to use “top 24h” but these days I just sort by “hot” because it actually seems to work pretty well now: I don’t see the total garbage that gets down voted immediately like you get with “new” but I see pretty much everything else (which is what I like; I especially like finding interesting posts in obscure communities!).
I also regularly block foreign language communities for no other reason than I can’t read them so there’s no point in them taking up space in my feed. Like, I’m sure that German meme about Elon Musk is hilarious but since I don’t know German it’s just noise 🤷
- Count Regal Inkwell ( @VinesNFluff@pawb.social ) 6•1 month ago
Subscribed|Active
I want posts where people are talking u-u
- wieson ( @wieson@feddit.org ) 4•1 month ago
Insertion Sort.
It’s easier to remember how to program than quick sort and it’s stable (it keeps the previous order for same value data)
- Blizzard ( @Blizzard@lemmy.zip ) English3•1 month ago
I like it hot
- leaky_shower_thought ( @leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl ) 3•1 month ago
sub: top 12 hours, all: top 6 hours
this somewhat balances out feeds I missed on my subscribed list.
- MNByChoice ( @MNByChoice@midwest.social ) 3•1 month ago
Top 6 hours, then New, then top 12 hours.
- u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) ( @user224@lemmy.sdf.org ) English3•1 month ago
Subscribed, new. Then All, Top 6 hours.
- Rose Thorne(She/Her) ( @NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee ) 3•1 month ago
All, new. It keeps things fresh throughout my workday. I spend most of it on my own, and have a lot of points of 2-5 minute downtime. I end up sitting in the back office and browsing Lemmy pretty often.
- Che Banana ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 2•1 month ago
All new because there is a lot of shit, different languages & country/place threads that i find interesting.
…and german memes…many, many german memes
- kratoz29 ( @kratoz29@lemm.ee ) English2•29 days ago
Active in my subbed communities and hide read posts, that usually gives me a similar experience that I had with Reddit (and using Boost or Sync for Reddit sometimes makes me forget where I am lol).
Sometimes I sort it to the top 6, 12 or 24 hours though.
Scaled is the default account sort as I find it the best when I am browsing Lemmy on a PC/Lap (which that would be like 1% of my total Lemmy usage, just like Reddit lol).
- juliebean ( @juliebean@lemm.ee ) 2•1 month ago
new. sometimes i switch to others for a laugh, but new is my default.
- SagXD ( @sag@lemm.ee ) 2•29 days ago
Active