Filtering by New seems to be the best way to view Lemmy.
Over the last few days, it seems that filtering by Hot or Active just makes me see the same posts I've seen over the last few days (stealing memes meme and $4k fridge).
Filtering by New on Lemmy, however, is not the toxic filth that Reddit is, and generally gets the job done.
Unless I am doing something wrong, Hot and Active seem to not update enough / hide what I've already seen. I am doing my Subscribed, about 20 subs.
This has been the same experience for me, Active/Hot shows posts from Monday because they're still gaining comments but New shows genuinely new posts. I think the algorithm may simply not be tuned for tens of thousands of users
top.day isn't bad if you want some more developed posts with lively comment sections, and I believe it's guaranteed to rotate every 24h. But yeah, hot is broken on a lot of servers right now (should be fixed in v0.18.0), and active isn't aging out some of the monster posts that people keep reviving with new comments.
and active isn’t aging out some of the monster posts that people keep reviving with new comments.
I think when the Hot sort gets fixed, this should also fix Active - since half the reason those threads remain active is that they got frozen in Hot on one instance or another.
I've found this true as well. I read on All/New to see everything. The growth rate at the moment is high, so there are lots of posts from magazines in other instances. I subscribe to the ones I find interesting and eventually will switch to Subscribed/New.
The problem with kbin is that navigating to individual subscribed "magazines" is a shit experience. You have to go into your settings. Also why is it called magazine? It just doesn't match with any mental concepts IMHO.
This. Tried both kbin and a lemmy instance and although the kbin experience at the beginning of the week was shit (slow and no federation) there was still more new content on then Frontpage than on lemmy (or I was using it wrong).