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You can change your default listing type in the user preferences.

This is especially problematic as media […] gets duplicated to every receiving instance.

I’m not sure this is actually the case. The posts certainly do get duplicated to every instance, of course, but the media contained in them are always hosted by the originating instance, as far as I can tell. So once it is deleted from there, no one can access it anymore.

I think it’s an interesting idea though. Since you mentioned votes by members of the individual instances, I wonder how you would handle the different sizes of instances. I’m the only user of my instance, for example. I probably wouldn’t be able to be judge then, right?

This doesn’t work like a Sort type, but more like a Limit type. I would expect it to sort by time.

Yes, that’s basically exactly how it works. It’s supposed to show you “the top posts in the last hour”, so I think sorting by score does make sense here.

(In fact, the time range is actually being separated from the “top” sort type in lemmy 1.0.0, so it should be more intuitive then. There’ll just be a “top” sort order, alongside a filter for post time.)

It doesn’t work on “Overview” or “Comments”, only if I limit to “Posts”. So yes, it works on posts, but only if no comments are involved by overview.

Yup. That part definitely looks like a bug.

I have noticed this before. The time range works on the user’s posts, but not on comments.

And nothing is sorted.

It is sorted by score.