I only use new to “refresh” my list of filtered content:
- AI generated images
- The bazillion of RSS bots that host no discussions and just post 5 threads in a row
- Non-English content that I can’t read anyway (not their problem obviously)
- Porn
- Thirsty anime models
- I probably forgot some more content I’m not interested in
Do you use “new” for anything specific?
edit: I listed “spam” in the title originally, I felt this was unfair
I sort by new for my subscribed mainly. Sometimes I sort by active just out of curiosity.
I always sort by New, but I also only use Subscribed, rather than All. So it’s an up to date list of topics in my curated interest areas.
I only browse by new because I’ve already seen what’s old.
I run an instance by myself, so I tend to default to “new” mostly to catch spam and shit early and axe it.
On my LW account, I tend to stick to “Subscribed” unless I’m looking for new content to subscribe to. I also block a lot of communities and pretty much all bot accounts because of exactly what you listed in the post.
I only sort by new for my subscribed feeds. I feel it works really well there. I rarely go so all or anything like that. Too much unwanted stuff for me personally.
I found this post using active and basically missed the conversation, so use new if you want to actually engage with the fellow lemms.
This is the exact problem. If you don’t get into the conversation right away. Nothing you say will be heard
I’m tempted to not reply and validate your statement.
Lol
I use “New comments” to follow up on conversations
Be Bold. Sort by new and brave the shitstorm. That’s the only way to do Lemmy.
I’ll often browse Lemmy by Top 6 Hours or Top 12 Hours, depending on when I last checked, and if I get through all the posts, I’ll start browsing via ‘New’ sorting…
When you filtered out everyone you don’t like and everything you don’t like…
Now, not really. In the future, I expect subscribed new to be more important as content becomes more abundant and there might be a point where you could miss out on posts that didn’t see the kind of engagement to make it on your stream.
