what's a reasonable sort for lemmy?

New, Top Six Hour and Top Twelve Hour

I've been browsing All -> New

I've been blocking communities or instances I don't want to see. It took a day or two but now I'm discovering some great communities all the time. As my community list grows, I'll eventually swap to my subscribed feed.

Hot is generally broken, I use top 6 hours to get new posts that actually have comments.

Subscribed New is my default

I think "Active" is a great default sort for the exact reason you describe, that posts are a lot "stickier" on Lemmy than they were on reddit and you always get good conversation there even days after the post.

Also, it means that we get memes out of our systems way faster, nobody is even talking about the can of beans after day 2.

Using Top 6 hours now because Hot is broken. Once it’s fixed I’m back to Hot though.

My default is Top6Hours

If there’s a constant onslaught of new posts in your subscriptions and you read stuff several times every day, go with hot.

If the feed is relatively quiet, but you still want to see something new every few hours, sort by new.

If you check Lemmy only once a day, try active or top of 24 h.

I browse lemmy in these orders:

1. Communities I subscribed, sort by new.
2. Active All, I've blocked a few meme communities so I don't see them much.
3. Top 6 hours All.
4. Top 1 hour All.

Top 6 Hours seems to change the most for me so that's the one I use, I only check out Lemmy a couple of times a day with my morning and afternoon coffees. Active when I want to deep dive into comments. and if I was here all the time then new would be my sort preference.

There is not yet enough content for your sort selection to really matter. I sort by new because at least I'll see more content as stuff is posted throughout the day.

I just go with new

I sort by active because I like to read comments.

I use Voyager with the option to Mark posts as read on scroll, and then I just hide all the read posts to get a fresh feed.

I use top 6 hours and new comments. New comments is nice because it keeps active posts showing up even when they get days old. It also appears to show new posts as well.

Subscribed --> new. If there's not enough content for that day I go to the all tab in the chronological order

Just upgraded to 0.18.3-rc.4 and the Hot sort seems to be fixed now. (I'd guess Active would be too.) So, that now. Before I pretty much only used Top X Hours based on when I last looked.

Though, now that I'm looking at Hot, the communities I'm in definitely feel a whole lot more active.

Top Day/x hours in descending order, based on last visit. Gives you the top voted stuff made in more recent time. Though my default sort is actually by new.

I’m using local and hot but voyager’s hide read posts feature greatly helps to filter out what I’ve already seen. It feels a lot more comfortable.

Subscribe to some communities that interests you, then comments/subscribed.

I go with New personally, though I don't subscribe to all that much - I imagine that it would be a bit less pleasant if you're on a hundred different communities.

Hot and active showed too much old content. So I've gone with new and different variations of top _ hour.

i tend to sort by Hot as a default. sometimes I sort by New to catch stuff that's up-and-coming.

i usually browse only my subscribed feed, but I'll dip into All sometimes to see if there's anything interesting in communities i don't subscribe to, but it's usually just memes.

on Liftoff I can sort by Top 1 Hour or Top 6 Hours, idk if that's a standard lemmy thing

I just go to the communities that I am part of mainly.

I sort by new most of the time, just for the most variety.