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How do you get a better front page on Lemmy without so much old stuff? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by god@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I find that Hot and Active give you really old stuff, at least on my instance, that's like 3-7 days old stuff. New is just new, you know new, no community-assured quality. Top is stuff I've already seen. Where do I get a better feed? Can we have like Top 7 hours? Or a mixture of "top 16 hours" and "active"?

What do you do when browsing Lemmy? What are some of your strategies to get good shit while being here? Cuz so far if I try and use the front pages I get bored to shit.

The way I get anything barely worth interacting with from the front page is New Comments. Not the best, but better than the other options I discussed.

That or just, instead of interacting with a lot of stuff, interacting deeply with the few things I find that I like.

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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you do when browsing Lemmy?

As I did with reddit, I sort by new and I follow interesting communities.

3-7 days old stuff

This may be a central problem with modern internet culture. 3-7 days is not old. You just think it is because you're used to being bombarded with new content every minute. It's always bothered me that it's somehow become somewhat of a faux-pas to comment on stuff that was posted more than 24 hours ago - that's ridiculous.

I get bored to shit

Follow better communities. Or do something else.

[–] GankTopPlz@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The idea of link aggregators is to operate like a daily newspaper, not a magazine at a doctors office. I don't want to see the same stories I read all week, I want to see the new things that are happening in the world, and in 2023, things move very fast. I'm still seeing posts about subs starting to close from the begining of the protests.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then maybe you need to follow the RSS feeds of actual news sources.

[–] GankTopPlz@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

the whole point of joining a "sub" is so that the community can gather relevant information on that topic and post it there. then the community also judges that content with the voting system. the goal being that everyone creates various information pipelines relevant to themselves that they then share with the community to form an additional pipeline. it's not like i don't go to direct news sources, but typically i would hear about virtually every topic they cover 12+ hours before on reddit. i typically get more in depth information about the topic, but reddit makes me aware of it nearly instantly.