And it automatically shows posts added to the top makes using it a little bit janky
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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I have the same issue, would love to engage more but sorted feed is either same through out day or bloated
I want to make 100% sure that in “Hot” you don’t just see big communities. I want to always see that one post from that one community with 1 user right at the top. So they should weight by community size.
Something feels wrong but I normally just browsed "best" on reddit and that was a curated list of top subs. So it's weird to me to sort Lemmy by "Hot" and get a ton of posts from random communities with no upvotes or replies. Which they are obviously not HOT as no one has engaged with them except the OP.
I feel like something is "off" with the way it is curating things.
So far hot has worked pretty well for me. Haven't really ran into the issues you mentioned with posts not having that many interactions near the top of hot, unless it's from a smaller community. My main problem I've had is when opening Lemmy after a bit or refreshing I'll get the same posts over again even if they're marked as read which is annoying and usually means I end up sorting by new. Would be nice if there was an option to hide already read posts. (Or if there already is one I'd be very interested in knowing where it is, also I use Jerboa mainly on Android so not sure if that changes anything either.)
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I definitely agree that some things need some more time decay. This place is bumpin' no reason the top 5 posts should be lingering on my front page for a day. According to their documentation, if I remember right, time is like a multiplier that increases the "gravity" to cause it to fall down the page. But if a post from a couple days ago had 1000 upvotes because it was the first thing everyone saw when they got here and everything else has like 50, it doesn't need much of a multiplier to stay at the top. We may have broke it....
I've actually blocked a couple communities because they were the top like 10 posts of my feed for days. New content was buried.
I've been doing top of today.
Sorting by new comments gives posts with no comments! Pretty big annoyance for me tbh.