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
I’m not on Lemmy, but I have the “Active” sort set as my default.
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 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.
New Local, then New All after I run out of content on local.
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.
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.
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
