Shout out to our “new” browsing heros and heroines. Sorry about all the shit you’ve stepped in.
I like hot.
What I seem to miss is that there is a controversial sort, but not a controversial sort with a time range like there is for top. When a big event happened on that other site I would check out “controversial - last day” to see what the dissenting narrative was
Subscribed - Scaled, followed by Subscribed - New, followed by All - Scaled
Though I’m currently testing out Quiblr, to see how its custom feed works for me.
“New” because within 30s of browsing “hot” I reach the post from the day before that I’ve already seen. There’s just not enough content here on Lemmy
I browse all most of the time and new the rest of the time.
I prefer to see a wide variety of content rather than having to subscribe to specific communities. I just block the ones that I’m not interested in.
New
On my Hexbear account, New and Local, on Lemmy.ml New and Active, usually Local. There’s enough content but not too much when sorting that way.
New.
Sort by new, always.
My default sort is new since a majority of the posts in my feed are news articles and I like to see them as they happen.
My other method is scaled so that I can make sure I see what’s rising/popular in a balanced way so that I also see the smaller communities contributions.
New, it let’s me read the articles that communities downvote because they don’t like the facts of the article.
New local till I hit the end, after that new all.
Hot, then Top 6 Hours, then Scaled.
I recently switched to “new comments”. That ensures I get a healthy mix of new and old, and get to see as many different threads as I can.
Depends on where I’m scrolling and how long.
In a specific community? Usually sorted by ‘new’.
‘Subscribed’/‘All’ feeds? Generally starting with ‘Hot’ then moving to ‘new’ if I start to run into a bunch of content I’ve already seen.