When I was on reddit, “Hot” sorting (of both main page and subreddits) usually was more than enough to see ones that are new and popular at the same time
This doesn’t happen on Lemmy. Both “Hot” and “Active” seem to be biased towards old upvoted posts over new ones a bit too much, for me first page is always full of 3-4 day old posts
I know there’s “Hide read posts” setting, but I don’t think it’s a good solution. First, it seems like you have to interact with post in some way for it to be considered read, be it open it or upvote it, you can’t just “haha meme funny” or “this post is not interesting to me” and scroll past it. Also, I still would like to see read posts, so I could see if there’s some new conversation going, or if I want to see it again for some reason (like maybe I came up with a witty joke to make in thread six hours after reading it)
So, what sorting do you use, and does it solve the problem for you - if it is a problem for you in the first place?
I primarily sort by New, but there’s actually so much new content lately that I miss things that way. Memmy added Top 6 Hours, which I’m also using now - I like it better than Top Day, as it keeps me from seeing top posts I already saw in the morning when I browse at night, and vice versa.
When I used Reddit, I primarily visited subreddits individually - I might start doing that for the smaller lemmy communities that I want to make sure I don’t miss any posts on, too.