Over the last few days, it seems that filtering by Hot or Active just makes me see the same posts I’ve seen over the last few days (stealing memes meme and $4k fridge).
Filtering by New on Lemmy, however, is not the toxic filth that Reddit is, and generally gets the job done.
Unless I am doing something wrong, Hot and Active seem to not update enough / hide what I’ve already seen. I am doing my Subscribed, about 20 subs.
You could try to untick the show read posts on your profile. That helped my viewing experience even I am on either hot or active.
Nice, didn’t know that was an option.
Just keep in mind it will hide posts you submit, so if you want to check on your own OP you have to unselected it again.