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Out of curiosity, which sorting option do you prefer and why? I seem to use Hot a lot, but sometimes I switch to Active, honestly not sure what the difference is.
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My default is set to
This is the newest sorting option, I think, and it helps me not miss posts from the smaller comms - particularly ones where people are asking a question and there's been no engagement. Ideally I'd like to have Mastodon-style lists so I could have "quiet comms" or something and check them all every so often.
I will switch to new or top 6h/24h if I've been on recently and just want to see what's fresh. Top all time or 1y if I'm looking at new-to-me comms so I can see what type of thing to expect from it.
Yeah, I like Scaled, I've switched to using that now. Thanks!
And yeah with Active I've noticed it seems to put the same posts at the top if I check it multiple times a day (I'll often pop in for 20-30 minutes while waiting on something else or whatever), so hopefully Scaled does a better job about mixing that up.
As an aside: I am subbed to several political/news communities and I keep seeing the same post cross-posted to all 3 of them back to back, do you know of a way to avoid that? I want the other content from those subs but seeing the same 'human fire hose of shit spews some more shit' article 2-3 times in a row is annoying.
The duplicate content thing is kinda impossible to solve perfectly. Some people will tell you it's a feature, and it can be interesting to see the different instances' comment sections (especially after moderation), but yeah it can be annoying to have your feed dominated by a few stories.
The default web front-end will merge crossposts, but won't if they're multiple posts to the same URL. I think some of the apps do have that deduplication as a feature, but I couldn't tell you which.
I remember the same problem from my Reddit days, but there wasn't generally so many similar, overlapping communities.
You know, I just realized I don't get it (or at least not as much) with Voyager on mobile, and I didn't even think about it. I'm using the Alexandrite UI on desktop and it's bad about it, I haven't found any options for it in the settings or anything. I noticed it a few times on reddit, but I was subbed to so many communities and they were so much more active that it almost never happened. Oh well.