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.
A lot of sites state Reddit has 1.6B monthly active users, but really that number is monthly site visits. From what I can find it’s more like 400M monthly active users.
Reddit is still a behemoth compared to Lemmy, which has 1.5M accounts but only 70k active users last month.