It's like listening to the best band in your town and then comparing it to the music at the top of the global charts. The pure scale means you're gonna get better bands if you include "everyone". But I totally also hope Lemmy gets bigger. As a platform it isn't inferior in terms of UX. We just need everyone to switch.

Change sorting to "Top 6hr". I browse by Hot sometimes but that's my primary sort atm

I find it's better when I sort by top 6h

The biggest issue is Lemmy shows old posts for too long on the front page

There is an easy solution to that:

That doesn't have to be a bad thing. I commented on posts that were weeks old or a month old. Reddit had this bad habit that everything older than 30 minutes was irrelevant already.

Sure, seeing old posts doesn't help to create an image of activity. But don't think that something old is irrelevant, unless it's a news post.