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When I was on reddit, "Hot" sorting (of both main page and subreddits) usually was more than enough to see ones that are new and popular at the same time

This doesn't happen on Lemmy. Both "Hot" and "Active" seem to be biased towards old upvoted posts over new ones a bit too much, for me first page is always full of 3-4 day old posts

I know there's "Hide read posts" setting, but I don't think it's a good solution. First, it seems like you have to interact with post in some way for it to be considered read, be it open it or upvote it, you can't just "haha meme funny" or "this post is not interesting to me" and scroll past it. Also, I still would like to see read posts, so I could see if there's some new conversation going, or if I want to see it again for some reason (like maybe I came up with a witty joke to make in thread six hours after reading it)

So, what sorting do you use, and does it solve the problem for you - if it is a problem for you in the first place?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've mostly been using new and top of the last hour or 6 hours

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

New Comment or New. It keeps my timeline mostly fresh.