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.
It’s unfortunate, but there seems to be a bug affecting the other two views.
So, it’s only really for now that “new” is the best option: right now it’s the only one functioning correctly.