seems like it’s either day+ old posts that are no longer relevant or everything everywhere new, by the second
if there is a good reason for this [and there really might be] please lmk; i assume it’s less stupid and addictive to not have hot posts. but it is annoying and basically un browsable
As @ConTheLibrarian@lemmy.world says, 0.18.x wil fix this issue, but it is not optimized enough for larger instances such as lemmy.world. You can also sort by the top of the day, week, month, year, and all posts.
You’re on lemmy.world which is still on 0.17.4. I think that sorting algorithms were fixed in 0.18.0. Once lemmy.world updates it should be resolved. In the meantime, sorting by “new” or “top day” will work better.
A temporary mitigation is that the lemmy.world server admin can do restarts of the server a few times a day, which seems to fix the sorts temporarily. I’m guessing they’re probably already doing that, or you’d be seeing week-old posts at this point.
I’m told the newest version 0.18 has more sort options but they haven’t been able to successfully update lemmy.world
I’m still waiting for the lemmy.world update for updating jerboa.
I was using Jerboa but made the switch to Connect for Lemmy for Android. Honestly loving it so far in comparison. They even have a “front page” type option which you can select as your default on logging in to the app. Between that and switching to “new comments”, my feed has been active and related (generally) to my interests
I could not find it on FDroid
Growing pains. Just chill, it’ll be sorted eventually.
I agree with @yote.zip, give it some more time for the developers to work out the kinks and get servers stabilized. While it may not replace Reddit for some, it is an opportunity to develop a integrated means of communication between different platforms. We are still in the infancy stage and I for one am excited to be part of the growth. Not going to look down upon or shame anyone who goes back to using Reddit. Everyone has their own tastes for “social media” and so far I’m enjoying this one for what it’s worth.
