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.
The worst part is that it’d be so easy, too. Give me something with more than 10 comments that has more engagement than 10 comments/hour and we good.
While I’m sure it’s more difficult than it sounds, I like the idea of creating a user created sort/filter feature. Just plug in the parameters you want to sort/filter on (total comments, comments in the last hour, total votes, etc), and save it.
I imagine users would share sorts that would eventually become popular on their own and get added as a default.
Every custom sort has to be computed server-side, multiply by large numbers of users and you have a lot of strain on the infrastructure