I feel like everyone suggests following hashtags, but depending on the hashtag, I find the content that's being posted quite overwhelming when it comes to the amount of toots, and that it's hard to get an overview. Anyone that relates?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] some@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can you imagine if the threadiverse was sorted that way? It would be insane and essentially unusable at scale

On lemmy there is a way to basically do this by toggling the filters at the top of the top of the front page. You can see how this looks form my instance: https://programming.dev/?dataType=Comment&listingType=All&sort=New

I've always assumed nobody every uses it like that. I guess if you were bored you might get lucky and see something that interested you, at least if it was limited to Local and you were on a good instance.

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

It's technically an option, yeah, but as you said it's not something practically used as an "everyday" feed-sorting algorithm. It's not as though it's a default or suggested sort option - compare that to Mastodon where it's the only sort option X_X