My federated timeline retrieves only one page of recent active posts when sorted by Hot, but the next page of posts it retrieves are dead and several months old. The "Bumblebee on sage" post in the screenshot was posted 1 hour ago but the post right after it "Cats Distinguish Between Speech" was posted 7 months ago. The rest of the posts were posted 2 months ago or more and have no upvotes. Is this an issue with my instance only or do other instances also have this bug?
Thanks! This makes a lot of sense. I only see this problem with hot ranking so I had a feeling it was related to the database query. I'll avoid using hot ranking until the query is optimized.