1 yr. ago • 96%

Why do i see mostly posts from a single community?

I've subscribed to a handful of communities, but my feed is almost exclusively from this asklemmy. How can I see more from other communities?

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I've found that Active, which is the default, is pretty useless as it tends to be a self-fulfilling prophecy sort of thing. Everyone sees the most active stuff and they become more active, keeping them at the top.

Hot works better for a balance between New and Active.

I recommend changing your default sort in your settings to anything but Active. While you are there, might want to change the default grouping from All to Subscribed.

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- Top -> Six Hours
  
  Best sort
  
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- Oddly enough, Active has been the best for me. When I sort by Hot, I get almost entirely 2+ year old posts. Guess it all depends what communities you've joined
  
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  I think “Hot” sorting was/is bugged on some instances. I think it was fixed in a lemmy update. I believe there was a Github issue tracking it.
  
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  I feel like Hot might be bugged right now
  
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- Hot is good but it works more like "rising" on reddit did. I sort of go between hot and top 6/12 hour for a combo of rising things and things that have a lot of interaction but aren't stale.
  
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- Agreed, hot seems to be better for me too
  
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How are you sorting? New and top hour/6 hours have been pretty good for getting mixed content for me. Hot and active are a little weird.

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This is better suited to !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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Active isn't very good. I've been having good results with hot/new. Haven't tried top by time yet.

Then I would suppose same community might just be a function of traffic those are receiving vs others so your odds are higher to see the same. Should smooth over as more places get better established.

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Sort "Hot", and not "Active" to see the smaller communities more often.

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Because the default sorting algorithms for both posts and comments from reddit are not implement. Imo quite annoying because of issues like the one you mentioned. But not a lot of people seem to care.

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