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.

  • AVeryCleverName@lemmy.oneEnglish
    251·
    1 year ago

    I sort by new. It seems to work. There’s a severe lack of comments, which I am trying to do my part to rectify.

    • Max17@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Also when sorting by “hot” I see posts without any comments. Always been a lurker in Reddit, here i’m trying to make my best to comment whenever I have something “intelligent/funny” to say (Rarely but still… :D ).

    • Dippy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I like top by 6 or 12 hours. Usually a pretty good mix of everything until something better comes up. Still tons of memes, but seeing more and more tech/pics/news/politics posts with it.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah that’s something I’m noticing a lot too. It feels like, at the moment, a lot of the communities are communities in name only. People upvote posts when they see them but there’s not much discussion happening.

      Which is something that will improve with time, obviously.

      I could go into all those common threads and start making comments but I feel like it would just be inorganic.

      • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        One thing that I try to do is find other comments and respond to them. A lot of times it’s easier to respond to another comment than to make a top level comment in the post, imo. And it opens up the door to a discussion, which is the whole purpose of this platform