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.

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Top hour gang

(I imagine nobody after the first hour will agree with me)

[–] macintosh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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@feddit.nu 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[+] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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).

[–] Duchess@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago

subscribed, show read posts and show nsfw unchecked.

[–] beefbaby182@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 1 points 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.