I’ve seen a few mentions of people feeling like they’re constantly seeing the same content when sorting by active, I’ve since moved to hot, and I’m having a much better time.

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The problem with sorting by hot, at least on my instance, is that I always seem to wind up looking at a post from years ago mixed in with more recent stuff. That’s not a problem per se, but I find myself almost responding to a conversation that happened a long time ago.

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Tell your instance admin to restart the Lemmy service every so often. We have ours restart every six hours since that fixes the hot thing breaking and getting stale.

Larger instances might not be able to restart often as it could leave some interactions in limbo.

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Thanks for the tip! And I happen to be the admin, lol. I’ll set a cron job to restart the lemmy container and see what changes.

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I’ve set it to restart every six hours.

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What command do you use to restart the Lemmy service?

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Great tip!

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Sorting by hot also shows me a bunch of nsfw communities for some reason

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Oh, maybe lemmy.world is using another definition of “hot.” ;)

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To be fair, r/all would always have tons of NSFW posts before reddit started filtering them from the front page ~2 years ago.

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Sorting by “Top -> 6 Hours” has been best for me so far

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Came here to say this

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I’m more of a top -> day kinda guy

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Yeah seems like the best to see the best new stuff.

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I started sorting by day because of seeing stuff from days ago thay hasn’t been touched. Active and hot have been broken.

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Does your instance updated to latest version of Lemmy? Afaik, since 0.18 active and hot mostly work as intended

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For the past two days I actually haven’t seen any outdated posts by sorting “hot”. It’s working pretty good for me in wefwef and Memmy.

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Wish we had a “rising” option. That was my fav on reddit

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Yeah, I second this, used it a fair amount myself.

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Lemmy’s hot has some aspects of rising in it. Even posts with very few votes stay fairly high up if they got those votes early.

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Top Hour is the same as Reddit’s rising option.

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Is it? Source?

Similar, not exactly the same, no?

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You can’t have a source to Reddit’s proprietary algorithms lol. Ask u/spez.

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Hot for discovery.

Active to check in on ongoing discussions.

Use both, they are for different things.

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Yes agreed. I do hope this is mentioned somewhere because I can see someone getting frustrated and leaving the site

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All tools exist for a reason

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