On another popular site I can refresh my feed and it’s instantly all new things to explore. But here on Lemmy when I refresh, I get either the same top posts (with little new activity) or I see them just down a bit.
I’ve chosen subs that are active, and a mix of subscribed and local subs.
What settings are best to have a similar experience where if you refresh your feed you see new things to subs you’re interested in? Even choosing ‘new’ its like… there’s no new activity when I refresh.
Thank you in advance
I have my client (Summit) set up to mark posts as read when I scroll by and to hide them. It can alao mark crossposts as read. Then I just browse by Scaled. Occasionally I switch to Top over x timeframe when I have been away for a while.
I go by all but I block communities I have just zero instance in. I select the setting to not show things in my feed that I have read or interacted with. Works for me.
Smaller user base and a lot of community overlap makes the same things appear quite a bit.
I like to sort by Subscribed+Scaled, or sometimes Subscribed+“New Comments” (forums style)
also maybe subscribe to more communities https://lemmyverse.net/communities
in the settings there’s an option to “Show Read Posts”, you might want to uncheck that so you don’t see the same posts again
but also… stop checking so often! lol
Maybe basically switch sorting from “top” to “new”
That’s what I did.
I also want to know the answer to this, if there is one. Commenting to help it gain some traction. 🙃
Sort by New Comments, or by Scaled sort (which boosts under-active comms).
Are you sorting by “new” or “active”? And if it’s not either of those then there’s your problem.
