I haven’t seen a thread on this in a while. I have been going with top day for a while, but it can be hit or miss. Other sorts don’t seem to display as good in terms of balancing quality and quantity. What is your preferred sort for your main feed?
Edit: Realizing that the people who sort new commented before the hot/top/active people, haha
New.
I like to rawdog Lemmy.
unironically, your votes have great influence on the fate of posts
Been sorting new all my life on reddit and I’ve been using Boost forever so now I use Boost and sort by new. I enjoy not seeing the same shit over and over.
I don’t subscribe to enough communities (yet) to have the luxury of sorting by anything other than “new”, or else I’ll run out of content
I used to use “top 24h” but these days I just sort by “hot” because it actually seems to work pretty well now: I don’t see the total garbage that gets down voted immediately like you get with “new” but I see pretty much everything else (which is what I like; I especially like finding interesting posts in obscure communities!).
I also regularly block foreign language communities for no other reason than I can’t read them so there’s no point in them taking up space in my feed. Like, I’m sure that German meme about Elon Musk is hilarious but since I don’t know German it’s just noise 🤷
Scaled sort usually gives good results.
I didn’t even know this existed. Is this new?
Kinda, it was only added a couple months ago
It’s new for me!
It’s a great balance between new and hot! You mostly see posts that picked up some interest within the first couple minutes of being posted
Default sort? I just set mine to ‘New’ to keep up with the one guy who posts a thousand news articles per minute. The rest of the users are either trolls or the braindead few who haven’t realized they’re the last ones left in this digital wasteland. It’s like watching the end of the internet in slow motion.
I’m a masochist, so I usually do “New”. Lemmy is small enough that I can usually get through most of the new posts in a reasonable amount of time.
That said, if I want to a bit chiller experience, I will use “Scaled” which sometimes bubbles up something I might have missed.
Finally, I will use “Active” if I’m really bored and what to see what most people are engaged with… but that is pretty rare.
I usually use the C standard library qsort function.
Active
quick sort on random input, insertion sort on almost-sorted inputs
Honestly, sorting algos are serious nerd shit. They’re for suckers and losers. If it’s not worth doing, insertion sort every day of the week. Compute is cheap. If it’s actually important, then it’s TimSort (it’s never important).
In small datasets, the speed difference is minimal; but, once you get to large datasets with hundreds of thousands to millions of entries they do make quite a difference. For example, you’re a large bank with millions of clients, and you want to get a list of the people with the most money in an account. Depending on the sorting algorithm used, the processing time could range from seconds to days. That’s also only one operation, there’s so much other useful information that could be derived from a database like that using sorting.
Subscribed|Active
I want posts where people are talking u-u
Active in my subbed communities and hide read posts, that usually gives me a similar experience that I had with Reddit (and using Boost or Sync for Reddit sometimes makes me forget where I am lol).
Sometimes I sort it to the top 6, 12 or 24 hours though.
Scaled is the default account sort as I find it the best when I am browsing Lemmy on a PC/Lap (which that would be like 1% of my total Lemmy usage, just like Reddit lol).
Insertion Sort.
It’s easier to remember how to program than quick sort and it’s stable (it keeps the previous order for same value data)
Bubble sort. It’s the only one I really understand and know how to implement.
/s to be sure
Just whatever is the default sort. It’s usually mergesort or quicksort depending on the environment. No way I’m implementing my own
/s
All, Top for the past 6 hours. Sometimes in the morning I’ll switch it to 12 hours to see what I missed overnight and other times the week just to make sure. But I don’t subscribe to anything, give me all the best of Lemmy
Subscribed | Scaled. But I sometimes change it to Subscribed | Top 12h for new content (but not too new that there’s no discussion yet) or even All | Top Day if I want more.
I sort by subscribed, new. I wish jerboa could auto show posts by oldest.
