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I don't really use the Hot algorithm since it still seems bugged for small instances (beyond the top 1-3 posts I'm getting month old stuff on the front page).
I've combed through and subscribed to a variety of communities I'm interested in, and so at this point I'm mostly using the Subscribed feed, cycling between top 12/6/1 hour depending on when I last opened the app, and also checking Active since it seems to work better than hot.
I'm still waiting on some kind of subcategories for the Subscribed feed so I can have separate front pages for News/Sports/Memes etc. Hopefully it can be implemented, either through Lemmy itself or a third party app.
I did notice recently that I was getting month old posts in Hot. Which is actually OK for now, since I just arrived, but I imagine I'll gravitate more towards Top Day/6 hours/hour eventually.
It's at least a known bug, I read an open issue about it somewhere on the GitHub. No idea on the progress of fixing it, though. And it's exacerbated if your home instance is small, apparently (probably something to do with the algorithm using activity from your home instance to determine "Hot", I'm guessing, so if you're on a small instance there just isn't enough recent activity to fill the front page).
Yeah the bug can affect any instance since it's part of the algorithm, though I did personally notice it got way worse when I switched from lemmy.world to feddit.nu (which has less than 300 users).
Quickly checking the front page of my .world account, Hot sorting seems to work fine on it, so it's weird what you're getting the bug still.