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
Subscribed, new. Then All, Top 6 hours.
Scaled sort on subscribed.
That’s my back up plan after Top 12 hours on Everything gets stale.
Top day until it’s stale, then hot.
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.
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
I do Active All by default, see what’s popping. After i exhaust that I go by all Hot. I have a lot of communities filtered (mainly porn ones) to clean up my feed even though I also am subscribed to several communities. Lemmy is still small enough where I don’t feel I need to only see my subs.
- Posts > New
- Comments > Top
good comments are upvoted for a reason and I wanna see those first… before scrolling to the bad takes… haha
Old I like to rehash and let things fester! Actually Hot, then look at Top last 6 hours while reading.
I sort by subscribed, new. I wish jerboa could auto show posts by oldest.
new. sometimes i switch to others for a laugh, but new is my default.
sub: top 12 hours, all: top 6 hours
this somewhat balances out feeds I missed on my subscribed list.
quick sort on random input, insertion sort on almost-sorted inputs
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).
In small datasets, the speed difference is minimal; but, once you get to large datasets with hundreds of thousands to millions of entries they do make quite a difference. For example, you’re a large bank with millions of clients, and you want to get a list of the people with the most money in an account. Depending on the sorting algorithm used, the processing time could range from seconds to days. That’s also only one operation, there’s so much other useful information that could be derived from a database like that using sorting.
Local new first, then all new.
Subscribed|Active
I want posts where people are talking u-u
New, always.
No point in anything else for the way I prefer to use lemmy.
It also means that I don’t miss much, even when I don’t check in for a day or so. Only things I miss are the ones that get removed.
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 🤷
