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.
So, when I go to r/all, it defaults to “hot”. That sorting algorithm is specifically what I’m referring to. And no, that doesn’t exist in Lemmy. Top 6 hours is the closest that I can get to that, but I believe there is tons of logic hidden in the Reddit algorithm that makes the quality of sorting better.
I am not looking for a personalized sorting option. I browsed r/all specifically to avoid that. The front page of r/all always felt special to me. Like content that makes the front page is a big deal on Reddit.
I get that the quality of content isn’t there yet and depends on a larger user base. I just want to know that the front page sorting is being worked on, and maybe what the conversation looks like.
So basically, yes this has been discussed a lot and there are various options for fixing it floating around. A few weeks ago there were all kinds of urgent gamebreaking bugs in the software that needed patching up, but hopefully things like sort algorithm improvements will have their time to shine soon.
As far as what the conversation looks like, here’s a link to all the currently open Github issues searched for “sort”. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort Some of them will be more relevant and have more discussion than others, since people tend to make a lot of duplicates, but it should give you an idea of the current thinking.