Before that setting becomes default, the “Hot” algorithm needs to get a major overhaul. It keeps spamming the top of my front page with posts that have zero comments and around ~1-10 upvotes as the results from federated instances start trickling in.

Any prior RIF users with some advice for which app to switch to for Lemmy that’s the most similar?

We think that’s a fair price! You just need to optimize your shit, garbage, utterly useless piece of crap app to not SUCK so much!