I've been using the Subscribed feed as my default view for a while. I understand that this is exclusively content from communities I've subscribed to, but it also seems to be be some subset of that content. If I go into an individual subscribed community, I almost always see a bunch of posts that I don't see on the Subscribed feed at all.
How does Subscribed choose which posts to show and how to order them?
Federation isn't instantaneous. New is good enough if you're checking it a couple times a day, but minute-to-minute it's got some wobble.