what's a reasonable sort for lemmy?

New, Top Six Hour and Top Twelve Hour

Yep, top 6 And new.
The problem with new is that there are never any comments
Yeah, I've had the best experience with top 6 hours for all. Blocked a couple communities but not as many as I would've thought.

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.

I mostly use kbin; how do you block communities or instances in lemmy? I didn't see an obvious way to do this, but I am often oblivious so that's not as conclusive as I'd wish it to be, haha
- In Lemmy, there should be a button on the sidebar for communities. You can't block instances (yet)
- I was able to block instances with Connect. Currently using the Sync for Lemmy internal beta and that functionality hasn't been added in yet.
  With Connect, it was as simple of clicking on the overflow menu and hitting block community or block instance. Worked like a charm!

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

I've been wondering if Hot is broken for everybody. For my subscribed page it shows 7 month old posts with no comments on the first page... makes no sense.
- It shouldn't be THAT broken, however, broke it absolutely is and there was even some github issues on the matter.
  Apparently a side effect of lemmy.world going into maintenance so often is that the hot sort refreshes itself a bit.
It's been fixed in the next release

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.

@mancy ~~I mainly use Hot and New. What is broken about Hot? And I don't understand how Top works, because its neither top likes nor top comments.~~ Edit: Never mind, I'm on Kbin and this topic is about Lemmy.
- After a couple of posts it starts showing several years old posts

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.

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:

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

That's standard

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.

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