Mostly Hot/Subscribed, but from time to time I switch to Top Week/All.
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Subscribed/Scaled most of the time, which gives me a nice selection of things I'm interested in, with a boost for posts from smaller communities so they don't get drowned out by larger ones.
All/Hot when I want to check in and see what the rest of the fediverse is up to.
Subscribed/New
New Local, then New All after I run out of content on local.
New Comments so it acts like an old school forum.
/agree, probably the closest answer to my mindset so far. (And I do love me some old school forums. RIP Portent and Waryammer.)
Top 6 hours gives insight into active threads and allows me to browse twice a day with no repeats.
I'm not on Lemmy, but I have the "Active" sort set as my default.
All/Hot or Top 6 Hours
This question made me actually go into settings, and I can sort automatically by new instead of have to resort every time I open! Thanks!
There's a setting to sort comments to, on Voyager at least.
Hot all, and then I'll usually switch to New when the hot feed starts getting up to older stuff if I'm still scrolling.
Subscribed/scaled normally.
All/Top 6 hours.
Top day.
I have very slow days at work most days, so I keep my sort on all/new to have new shit to look at during the day. Hot only really sees new content like 3 or 4 times a day.
Hot. Then somwtimes top of 6hours and if I feel like I start running out I go to new.
All/Hot when I haven't been on for a while, All/New most of the time
I run subscribed on Hot, mainly because that is or was the Mlem default. But sometimes I go to Top for the past 24 hours and it gives a different impression, and I’m still surprised by what posts I hadn’t seen with a huge amount of activity
Top 6 hours
I have it set to New for my subscribed communities. That's how I do it, at least.
Hot is way better than active
All/Top-Day, I don't read everything, kinda just skim through
Then I just like check comms I really had in mind that day, usually asklemmy an nostupidquestions and technology and casual questions and sometimes Android... etc...
I check !theasiandiaspora@piefed.social at least like twice a day to see if its still alive.
Even if I sort by subscribed, there's often like 5 tech articles I have no interest in, and then 5 random gaming stuff I have no interest in, then 5 random c/television stuff, 5 random android stuff, before you know it, subscribed/new is filled with 20 uninteresting stuff, but like I don't wanna unsubscribe to technology or android, know what I'm saying?
So like, I really have to be in the mood for that specific comm to click on it. Then its just sort by new and check the last 24 hours.
Penis.