I seem to gravitate towards All + Hot lately. This gives me a really nice variety of posts. All + Top 6 Hour is good as well.

I’ve been subscribing to a lot of communities, but find that I often don’t browse by subscription. I mainly use subscriptions to bookmark communities in case I want to view them individually.

  • superkret
    8•1 year ago

    I’ve joined an instance that has a good number of communities I like (feddit.de).
    Then I’ve subscribed to a smallish number of communities I’m especially interested in, but only on other instances.
    And I keep banning communities I’m not interested in when they pop up on all.

    Now I spend about equal times in subscribed/new, local/new and all/hot, and they each show me things I’m interested in, but more or less specific.

  • @[email protected]
    4•1 year ago

    Subscribed/Active.

    I find the default front page actually defeats the Reddit front page in cringe levels by several orders of magnitude. A decent bit of that will fade as Lemmy (hopefully) gains its own identity outside of just being Reddit haters.

  • Coelacanth
    2•1 year ago

    I don’t really use the Hot algorithm since it still seems bugged for small instances (beyond the top 1-3 posts I’m getting month old stuff on the front page).

    I’ve combed through and subscribed to a variety of communities I’m interested in, and so at this point I’m mostly using the Subscribed feed, cycling between top 12/6/1 hour depending on when I last opened the app, and also checking Active since it seems to work better than hot.

    I’m still waiting on some kind of subcategories for the Subscribed feed so I can have separate front pages for News/Sports/Memes etc. Hopefully it can be implemented, either through Lemmy itself or a third party app.

    • The Giant KoreanOP
      2•1 year ago

      I did notice recently that I was getting month old posts in Hot. Which is actually OK for now, since I just arrived, but I imagine I’ll gravitate more towards Top Day/6 hours/hour eventually.

        • Coelacanth
          1•1 year ago

          It’s at least a known bug, I read an open issue about it somewhere on the GitHub. No idea on the progress of fixing it, though. And it’s exacerbated if your home instance is small, apparently (probably something to do with the algorithm using activity from your home instance to determine “Hot”, I’m guessing, so if you’re on a small instance there just isn’t enough recent activity to fill the front page).

            • Coelacanth
              2•1 year ago

              Yeah the bug can affect any instance since it’s part of the algorithm, though I did personally notice it got way worse when I switched from lemmy.world to feddit.nu (which has less than 300 users).

              Quickly checking the front page of my .world account, Hot sorting seems to work fine on it, so it’s weird what you’re getting the bug still.

  • Sean
    1•1 year ago

    I like my front page to show subscribed + new when I first log in. Then I slowly gravitate towards individual communities.

  • @[email protected]
    1•1 year ago

    I would use all/hot but it doesn’t seem to work, its giving me things from months ago and I’m not looking for that.

    I use all/active which seems to get pretty up-to-date posts.