How do you get a better front page on Lemmy without so much old stuff?
I find that Hot and Active give you really old stuff, at least on my instance, that's like 3-7 days old stuff. New is just new, you know new, no community-assured quality. Top is stuff I've already seen. Where do I get a better feed? Can we have like Top 7 hours? Or a mixture of "top 16 hours" and "active"?
What do you do when browsing Lemmy? What are some of your strategies to get good shit while being here? Cuz so far if I try and use the front pages I get bored to shit.
The way I get anything barely worth interacting with from the front page is New Comments. Not the best, but better than the other options I discussed.
That or just, instead of interacting with a lot of stuff, interacting deeply with the few things I find that I like.
First, this isn't reddit, sort by Subscribed / New.
Second, subscribe to stuff and don't be afraid to subscribe at the same time to smaller communities on other instances. Yes, you cannot group them by topic Yet™, but it's on the road map.
Third: Don't lurk! We need content here. Be a contributor, and don't worry about what people think. Sieze your moment, and cry, "FIRST! I posted that here."
:) I have thought that, and then I forget it, then I think about it again, it's hard not to fall back to lurker. Then again, I do provide a shitton of content a lot of the time, I just haven't gotten the hang of doing it even more!
Sorting by top day helps. I have actually been sorting by new as well. Not as busy here as it is on Reddit, plus generally high quality so new stuff is pretty good.
Isn't it just that the hot algorithm freezes and stops updating? https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076
I'm on kbin and the hot sorting works and it's great for checking a few times a day since it actually updates
MAYBE SO, cuz i have the exact same things lol. maybe that's the reason 😅 i was thinking of just making my own frontend to solve it but that's a bit overkill and i'd have to scrape the fuck out of the servers' apis to get better sorting and that's a bit impolite.
I remember reading that there is a bug with Hot and Active at the moment where older posts keep a high priority for too long. It's supposed to be addressed in the v.0.18 release in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, I use New or Top Daily. Not perfect but it gives fresher content.
Lmao some smaller instances still have fucked front pages but the bigger ones are solved already. You're gonna have to either find a strat that works for you or move around to test stuff.
Sorting by new is working well for me. There may come a day when Lemmy communities have so much content that it's too much for me to browse, but we're not there yet. I'm sure when that day comes, though, Hot and Active will be better methods.
so new posts from subscribed communities, got it, how many communities do u follow? (i don't need an exact number, just to know whether it's more around 10 or more around 300)
Maybe it's the communities you're subscribed to. Personally, my front page is pretty filled. Take a look at https://lemmyverse.net/ to see communities from other instances.
What do you sort by? I'm already following around 40 communities. Maybe it is indeed which communities I follow and maybe I do need to follow more. I'll follow your advice and try to fill it up way more and see if that makes a difference (apart from making New an unreadable mess of fast-scrolling titles)
New and top day are the only viable options right now. Hot and active are completely broken. I would also love a top 12 hours and top 6 hours though. Because new is a bit too raw, and top day is a bit too stale. Shouldn't be hard to add those as a temporary QoL fix.
I don't like following popular communities though :( I actually follow communities that have good posts that are decently voted but they don't get any traction at all on my front page, i have to visit them directly to even find them cuz they will most definitely not be on my subscribed front page.
As I did with reddit, I sort by new and I follow interesting communities.
3-7 days old stuff
This may be a central problem with modern internet culture. 3-7 days is not old. You just think it is because you're used to being bombarded with new content every minute. It's always bothered me that it's somehow become somewhat of a faux-pas to comment on stuff that was posted more than 24 hours ago - that's ridiculous.
The idea of link aggregators is to operate like a daily newspaper, not a magazine at a doctors office. I don't want to see the same stories I read all week, I want to see the new things that are happening in the world, and in 2023, things move very fast. I'm still seeing posts about subs starting to close from the begining of the protests.
It’s always bothered me that it’s somehow become somewhat of a faux-pas to comment on stuff that was posted more than 24 hours ago
i-it is??? I always comment on shit that's like a year old. I don't care about that hahahah, my problem with the old stuff is not that it is old but that I already saw it. I wanna see new cool stuff!! I just don't wanna be the one upvoting things in New all the time. Sometimes I just wanna see what all the cool people are doing.
on reddit, unless it's some kind of help or megathread, you typically don't comment on old posts. in the past you couldn't comment/vote on posts over 6 months old regardless.