Why is the lemmy hot sort seemingly so bad? After the first couple of posts it turns into new posts with no votes, sometimes the same new post multiple times back to back to different communities, and sometimes posts with negative points. I came across a series of posts today with 1 upvote (poster) and 6 downvotes. I don’t get how that can be considered “hot”
I think the problem is there isn’t enough traffic on Lemmy and not that the filter doesn’t work. I think it is just some equation that balances how recent it is with how many upvotes it has gotten.
Although if that is the case you might get some oddities like 5 upvotes on a post made 5 minutes ago would have the upvote to time ratio be extremely good and be higher than it seems like it should be.