Apparently in the algorithm time is a multiplier that increases the "gravity" but when the first post everyone saw here a few days ago has 1000 upvotes and everything else has 20-30~ even with the multiplier it stays on top. Those posts were an exception to the normal traffic that beat the algorithm. Maybe if the algorithm was based off of like "if x% above the average post karma for that instance then it gets a bigger time multiplier to increase its gravity over time"

But I think those posts getting upvoted hard-core beat the algorithm and it's going to take forever for them to fall.

I actually get the most utility out of new comments but in my dreams I'd like to see separate drop downs for timespan and criteria. The sort I'm really craving is "most comments" "past day" but I think pretty much every combination would be useful and interesting. They could even have options referring to different time dropoff curves. Then the traditional past day, past week, etc would effectively be flat.

But if those posts get new comments, it isn't so bad. I dislike how many websites age stuff too fast.

What you want is sorting by new, in "subscribed" or even "all"

Yep just logged in and the top 10 posts are all 3 days old. Yeah this migration from reddit is not working for me yet. I'll keep trying.

This might be needed, yes. I currently just sort by new, but that will probably lead to missing out on the actually popular topics when even more people start joining Lemmy.

I change the setting on my home feed into subscribe + new comment. Works well for me. All hot posts still takes chunk of first 10 on my homefeed, but really new post is not that far down the line...