YSK: Sorting by 'Hot' instead of 'Active' will show more diverse content on Lemmy
YSK: Sorting by 'Hot' instead of 'Active' will show more diverse content on Lemmy
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.
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.
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.
I've set it to restart every six hours.
You should know you'll lose the outbound queue of interactions everytime you restart. I was also under the impression that the big this was supposed to be a work around for had been fixed in 0.18.
Great tip!
What command do you use to restart the Lemmy service?
Sorting by hot also shows me a bunch of nsfw communities for some reason
Oh, maybe lemmy.world is using another definition of "hot." ;)
To be fair, r/all would always have tons of NSFW posts before reddit started filtering them from the front page ~2 years ago.