I sort by New (rather than Hot for instance), myself.
Just randomly curious what other people are sorting at default, and if there’s a common answer.
Kinda wish I could automagically sort comments by New as well. /shrug
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.
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.
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.)
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.
Top 6 hours gives insight into active threads and allows me to browse twice a day with no repeats.
Subscribed/scaled normally.
All/Top 6 hours.
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.
All/Hot when I haven’t been on for a while, All/New most of the time
Hot. Then somwtimes top of 6hours and if I feel like I start running out I go to new.
Top day.
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
