"Hot Singles in my Area"
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
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I'm always looking for hotties, so old and active
usually hot, than in a thread old then new.
I am only subscribed to Garfield so my subscribed button pulls up Garfield comic posts.
Subscribed and scaled sorting.
All top 6 hrs. I usually browse Lemmy twice a day and it tends to let me see most everything.
Some days I do too much Lemmy scrolling, so i keep it at top 12h so i am less likely to hit the bottom.
The bottom is kind of fun though, it gets weird.
Same. All, either Top 6 or Top 12, with the occasional Top 24 (Today) if I've been busy and feel I need to catch up.
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New | All
A great way to find new and interesting content only if you've got a good block list set up.
Also a good way to start building or expanding the aforementioned block list
This is the best way to see what’s there. Then, get a block list started.
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I scroll through hot then top - 1 hour
What kind of people set their default feed sort to old 😭
If you want to see everything and also arrive at a thread already populated with good juicy comments.
It would be the same every day though.
Not defending sorting by old bc that’s crazy, but there is an option to automatically hide posts you vote on or open to read, so you wouldn’t necessarily be looking at the same thing. You would however be reading months or years old posts and comments and it’d be a little strange to try and respond to anything.
Not if you hide read posts.
You'd have to read every post.
voyager allows hiding everything you have scrolled past
Incredible.
truly amazing indeed
You'd have to mark every post as read. Big difference. Good frontends offer you to do that while you scroll past and mark crossposts as well.
I left it at default, Active for posts, Hot for comments.
All, top 1 day
Top -> 6 hours
i like the new comment sort since it's like a hybrid of new and active. yes, 0 comment posts will show up there.
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First commenters are always “new”😆
Hot, then new
Sounds like it might be a good dating strategy too.
then new.
Dating strategy
This one right here FBI...
Oh... Right... the FBI doesn't care about that stuff anymore.
Scaled | Subscribed
I find this effectively acts as "new" for small communities, and "hot" for big ones.
Agreed, I really prefer it for that as well
Top 12 hours. There's just enough going on that it's new for me.
Top 6 hours
New, Subscribed
New: There's a limited enough amount of content presently being submitted in the areas that I'm interested in that I don't feel the need to try to use votes to filter out things. It's not impossible that I'd move to something that accounts for votes in the long run, but it's not enough of a torrent yet.
Subscribed: I don't believe that trying to view All and then blacklisting everything that you don't want scales well. People can add communities all the time, and inevitably
there's a huge amount of stuff out there
a lot of it isn't stuff that I'm going to be interested in. It's like trying to blacklist the Internet
means a constant game of whack-a-mole. Also, "All" will only see communities that are either local to your home instance or where another user on your home instance has already subscribed to things, so especially on smaller instances, you may never see something that you're interested in that someone does create. I follow !newcommunities@lemmy.world, !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and hit https://lemmyverse.net/communities occasionally to find new communities of interest.
im not sure how it translates to base lemmy as I am using tesseract, but Subscribed / scaled is the endpoint it uses which I believe just means subscribed communities only sorted by scoring(hot?)? I'm not entirely sure how it works I just know that it works good for me.
New, on my subscribed communities
All top 12 hours & suscribed/local new
Home by new. All by top 6h.
Subscribed/New most of the time, but I check All/Active every once in a while to see if there's any drama going on.
Sometimes I'll hit All/Scaled when I'm really desperate.
Local feed sorted by New
New - simple chronological order is unambiguous
New, so I don't just see the same stuff as yesterday. I leave comments on hot, but I usually read though them all anyway.
new, always new
I'm not using Lemmy, but my default sort is set to "Active". Gives me the most interesting feed imo. Well, comments use "hot".
That said, I don't usually browse. I have a bunch of users and communities set to notify me on new posts, and I usually already get too many notifications that I don't also feel like browsing the site after looking at them all. Really changed my view of how active the fediverse is.
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