There's a bug with the hot sorting algorithm. Basically the process that handles sorting the feed will crash after a few hours. (At least, that's what I've been told is the issue)

Your server admin can restart the lemmy process every once in a while as a bandaid until next update.

I bounce between top day and new which seems to help.

Switching to Top Day just gave me a slew of 1 upvote no comment posts, as if I has switched to New.

I've noticed the sorting algorithm on Kbin is much better than Lemmy's. Much more churn in the posts when I refresh.

New comments also sometimes works. I think the hot algorithm has a known bug where the posts don't lose ranking over time

That is for this! I was sorting by new and this is much better to see the active posts of the day.

I gather there is a bug in the code for what generates the "Hot" sort and that it only resets when the server is restarted. I believe there is already a fix on GitHub, but person that runs the instance needs to implement it.

Can't wait for Lemmy 0.18!

Hot and active sorting are buggen in version 0.17.4

For me "Hot" suddenly started showing fresh posts again after 3 days of stagnation. Nevertheless sorting by "top day" is a genius idea that I'm definitely going to use, thx for the tip!

Just started doing this thank you!!!

Good tip, thanks. I think it would also be nice for people to sort by New and up/down vote to push more stuff to the Top lists.

Top of day works, but everytime i select all instead ot local it reverts back to local. Rip.

Don't forget that on Jerboa at least, there is an option to hide post you've already read. Makes it a bit easier to sift through all the content.

Great tip! Works very nice in Jerboa.