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.
I’ve found “hot” to be really unusable.
Just yesterday I was still getting posts from over a year ago with zero comments every 6-7 posts as I scroll down.
I’ve had to just go use “top - last 6 hours” to actually find newer posts with comments with active discussions.
Yup, top for the last 6 or 12 hours is the best way to replicate the “front page” algorithm most people are accustomed to.