Subscribed - New

Scaled. But I wish there was a way to see all unread posts sorted oldest to newest.

I personally enjoy “new comments”, it’s a mix of new posts and recently commented on posts

Scaled. Though your feed will be filled with posts from the same community if that community suddenly started posting lots of posts and is a new one. It happened to me with !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Scaled

Always Top 6 Hours or Top Day. Never hot. Not sure what the deal with hot is, but I agree it feels wrong.

Hot, but once a day I check Top-Day

I went by scaled on my previous instance because I enjoy seeing small communities posts as well and they easily drown otherwise.
However piefed doesn’t have that sorting :(

Hot, top 6 hours and new comments

As some other people suggested, I can also add vote to scaled, especially on subscribed communities.

I don’t spend that much time on lemmy and smaller communities don’t get attention in my feed otherwise. With scaled they pop up pretty often.

I do All - Scaled. I’ll switch to New if I feel like I’m seeing a lot of repeat content. I’ve had to block a few bots (the reddit reposters are particularly egregious) and communities I don’t really care for.

Subscribed, top of the day, at the same time of day, every day.

So far scaled seems nice to get the little ones higher up. AFAIK you can’t pre-make custom lists as some communities are perhaps more fun if you go for newest (comments) but then the small ones might get lost in the chaos.

Ideally, I would set scaled top 6-hours or something?

Oh wow. There are so many completely different opinions. Looks like the right answer is that there is no answer. Try all of them to find out what you like. Everyone seems to like something different, so my preferred sorting (which BTW is objectively the best one) might not be the one you like.

All, Top 6 hours. Keeps me fairly up on things. If I feel like I’m hitting the same stuff, I’ll switch to Hot or Active.