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 am a pretty big fan of new comments as a default sort. Occasionally days old stuff will reappear if comments start up again but mostly it’s new stuff generating discussion.
Top day or 12 hours for a rough daily digest.
And new for well…new.