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sorting by new works better for me, or if you are looking for a more active discussion try sorting by new comments.

I'll echo advice from an early Redditor from around 2010 in response to my complaint that was similar to yours: spend time upvoting and downvoting in the New feed. Not Hot. Not Trending. New.

I'd argue the bottleneck limiting step in the chemical reaction that is a link aggregator (be it Digg, Reddit, or Lemmy) is the number of conscious people at any one time who are engaged in upvoting / downvoting content with few votes.

So, yes, it's a civic duty and chore in any forum to patrol the New feed. New, by it's nature, is a slurry of mostly uninteresting low quality noise compared to the amplified main feed. But if you feel even a little bit of guilt at using a free service you're not donating to, you can alleviate some of that guilt by voting in New.

It's a known issue, the background worker responsible for figuring out what posts are hot or active crashes and stops updating.

Change sorting by new. Then you will see newer posts. It seems that default sort prefers too old posts.

I view all new and it's been a little slower but loosely equivalent to when I'd sort by top->this hour. Obviously it's a bit broader and you'll get wackier shit because it's all and not just places you've subscribed to, but it's been scratching a similar itch and I've been able to stay away from Reddit.

I have high hopes that this will continue to grow and I'll be able to eventually switch to subscribed, but I believe we're quite a ways from that right now. But then I've only been here a week.

That's a known bug that will be fixed with the next update.