Thank you for your contribution based new sorter.

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"New" for subscribed, top6h for everything

I forget that we aren't using the "other" place where sorting by new is terrible

I use 6h because I apparently have no life

I like how people without any prompt all came to the same conclusion.

This is one thing that Lemmy REALLY needs to work on. The hobby- and topic-specific communities need to grow. Lemmy is currently dominated by like 5-10 communities, which is fine, but it really falls short of the experience I had on Reddit in that regard.

I am pretty excited to slowly repost all my old content here over the course of several months to reap all those fake internet points again. It isn't reposting if it is a new website.

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Active means most comments in recent time, Hot means most upvotes in recent times

Hot prefers newer posts that are gaining votes and comments. Top prefers the most votes within a specific timeframe.

The Lemmy documentation explains the different sort options pretty well: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

The difference between "Hot" and "Active" is probably the most confusing to most users.

Haven't heard back yet...

A tip if you're used to old reddit and use desktop, check out old.lemmy.world. It as a dark mode like reddit enhancement suite adds to old reddit, and everything is exactly where I expect it to be based on my reddit experience. Since you're already using a lemmy.world account, it'll just work for you straight away.

Oh and also, you'll see that you can list things as "all," "local," or "subscribed." You can pretty much ignore local, and use all or subscribed as your main page.

"This flu in China might be really bad" - 3 years ago

"A new breakthrough that's shaking physics to its core" - 4 years ago

"Trump may not get away with it this time" - 2 years ago

Aww yeah, the feed is lit tonight! Something new to read!

It's easy for really old posts to get necro'd in Active sort. Not necessarily a bad thing, but if you use the "feed" to keep up with the latest then it'll cloud your listings a bit. A lot of people don't look at the post date right away (especially those of us from alien site since we're still operating on old habits).

Hot also had a bug that pushed old posts up, IIRC? Maybe i'm thinking of Active; I can't remember off the top of my head as I type this. Anyway I think Active is based on recent comment activity and Hot is based on recent voting activity. Nothing wrong with either, but I am honestly appreciating the "Top X hours" methods to keep up with recent news and events and to keep things fresh.

We're still in the "oh shit activity has increased by a factor of a thousand, we need to make the database not crash" phase of development of Lemmy (and kbin) so I'd expect that eventually the feed sorts will be looked at and tweaked. Just needs a bit of attention to get what you are looking for at the moment.