I think the problem I've noticed with Lemmy is I tend to only get the more popular communities showing up over and over again. Reddit was at least a little better about showing smaller subreddits I visited in my main feed at least somewhat often. Not sure if I just need to change how I sort on Lemmy, I currently use hot and subscribed.
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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I find sorting by "new comments" is better for now. Hot seems broken
Hot and active has improved a LOT in the latest RC release, should be coming to an instance near you soon™
Try Top Daily to see new stuff. The ranking will be fixed in a future release of lemmy to sink old but successful post to the bottom of the page and sprinkle in small community content as well.
The code is open source, so you can inspect it yourself.
I doubt there's much incentive for Devs to implement features that would make Lemmy more facebook-like. There's no profit motive for it, and there are lots of other features and bug fixes that deserve their attention.
The good thing is lemmy is so new that even if the devs wanted to, they probably haven't had the time (or data) to implement any of this.