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Thereβs currently a PR for a different sort that would kinda of address this issue.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3378
Wow. I'm kinda impressed that that's already in the works.
I'm rather pleased with how many developers have gotten involved with the project. Looks like the work might not be finished yet on this feature, but it's definitely on its way!
After the stability issues with Lemmy were addressed (and they have been, for the most part...) the next thing that needed a revamp was content aggregation. It's too stale. It's no wonder they're pilling on to address it.
IIRC it took quite a while for Reddit to find an algorithm that worked, and it constantly needs tweaking. It will here, as well.
Personally, I'm not so interested in a single algorithm to cover all bases and give me something that I can doom scroll forever.
I'm more interested in having the right tools to flexibly explore and consume content as I want, and happy if that means moving through various settings and multiple feeds in a session, so long as it's user friendly enough to do so.
At the moment, I think two features will dramatically improve one's ability to manage the feed. First is this "best" sort being implemented. Second is multi-communities (or multi-subreddits). Either are pretty good on their own. But in combination, they provide quite a lot and I'm honestly not sure what else I'd want.
This seems ideal. I hope it makes it in soon.
From what I've read in the changed code, you can select what duration you want to show the best posts for: