The idea of link aggregators is to operate like a daily newspaper, not a magazine at a doctors office. I don’t want to see the same stories I read all week, I want to see the new things that are happening in the world, and in 2023, things move very fast. I’m still seeing posts about subs starting to close from the begining of the protests.
I have 2 issues with hot/active
What I think are new posts suddenly begin filling the top of my feed closing any images I have open and pushing everything down very quickly. This makes both unusable to me.
The algorithm keeps posts that are days old at the top, witch is the opposite of how I would want my regular feed to work.
However reddit handles hot seems perfect to me, but im open to small changes that will make discovery a little better or to better integrate instances.
the whole point of joining a “sub” is so that the community can gather relevant information on that topic and post it there. then the community also judges that content with the voting system. the goal being that everyone creates various information pipelines relevant to themselves that they then share with the community to form an additional pipeline. it’s not like i don’t go to direct news sources, but typically i would hear about virtually every topic they cover 12+ hours before on reddit. i typically get more in depth information about the topic, but reddit makes me aware of it nearly instantly.