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.
I think reddit is around 50 million daily, 500 million monthly active users. The good news is that the vast majority of those users contribute nothing of value.
It’s going to take time but there is no alternative, we just need to build Lemmy up one day at a time.