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
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.
New.
I like to rawdog Lemmy.
Been sorting new all my life on reddit and I’ve been using Boost forever so now I use Boost and sort by new. I enjoy not seeing the same shit over and over.
unironically, your votes have great influence on the fate of posts
Sorting by new is the way to go!
I don’t subscribe to enough communities (yet) to have the luxury of sorting by anything other than “new”, or else I’ll run out of content
Subscribed, new. Then All, Top 6 hours.
Old I like to rehash and let things fester! Actually Hot, then look at Top last 6 hours while reading.
- Posts > New
- Comments > Top
good comments are upvoted for a reason and I wanna see those first… before scrolling to the bad takes… haha
Active -> New -> Controversial 💀
Tip 12 Hours works pretty well for me.
new. sometimes i switch to others for a laugh, but new is my default.
I sort by subscribed, new. I wish jerboa could auto show posts by oldest.
Top day until it’s stale, then hot.
Scaled sort on subscribed.
That’s my back up plan after Top 12 hours on Everything gets stale.
sub: top 12 hours, all: top 6 hours
this somewhat balances out feeds I missed on my subscribed list.
Subscribed|Active
I want posts where people are talking u-u
Local new first, then all new.
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 🤷
