It’s only like that because the community here is much smaller and overall post quality is higher on average.
I agree with you, but with time I expect the ‘hot’ algorithm to need many revisions. Don’t get too attached.
The size of the community isn’t the only problem though. The hot page is filled with very recent posts making I virtually random as to what posts you see there. It’s not about what post people are upvoting today, there is some aberration that brings up sub 100 vote posts to the top in their first hour over a 6 hour old post with 1000 votes. Active is also filled with days old posts making it useless for keeping up with current events too.
I must be doing something wrong. I only see like the same 5 communities, and occasionally several copies of the same post. It’s harshing my mellow because i know there’s more content out there, i just can’t see it for some reason
You would never see a half an hour old post on reddit hot sort. Look on local or subscribed, and if you want variety sort by new on all
That’s crazy to me. I think the sorting algorithm here is pretty awful no matter what setting I have it in. Linuxmemes, lemmyshitpost, and 196 are always on top mixed in with yesterday’s news
Are you sorting by active instead of hot? I never see old things past several hours unless it’s ultra upvoted
I just sorted by hot and got posts I looked at yesterday
