I’m not really sure where to ask this question. Maybe there’s a lemmy dev community where these kind of discussions already happen.

I feel like the default front page in Lemmy is still severely lacking when compared to Reddit’s r/all algorithm. I find hot and top hourly to be nearly identical. The top 6 hour is closer, but still not as good as what the Reddit default front page is.

  • deeroh@lemdro.idEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I’ve switched from All to Subscriptions only, and I’m getting some really wonky Hot posts. The first ~20 posts are fine, but after that, it starts serving me reeeally old content. (Reproduced in multple apps, so it’s not just Memmy).

    https://imgur.com/a/xfi0xsY

    • BitingChaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I had stuff in my feed jump from a few hours old to then showing things that haven’t had a comment in TWO YEARS back to showing content from a few days ago.

      There has to be a bug somewhere in Lemmy’s API in regards to what posts are returned.

      Edit: I just checked your screenshot. You’re showing the same kind of thing I see.

      • Carnelian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Happening for me too, and I know many others, as sometimes the old posts will have new comments lol

      • fraydabsonEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        This. That’s definitely a bug. It wasn’t always happening and seems somewhat recent.