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I'm honestly not a fan. I'm not sure if the site just isn't active enough or what, but I see the same posts over and over again. Doesn't matter whether I'm sorting by active or hot. Is that just me?
Top six hours or top twelve hours tends to reveal the small but active convos to me. And those can be interesting.
Have you tried checking that you have selected "all" or "subscribed" as local sometimes does that. I also play around with "new" and "new replies "to get content to change too.
I have Lemmy set to show me subscribed by default. I will check out new though.
Best thing you can do is curate your experience by subscribing to the communities that you want to subscribe to and then just sort everything by subscribed and new.