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The algorithm is not mature. The platforms have only existed for a few months and have not been stress tested with communities this size before last week. Reddit had 15 years to make that work, I'm imagining it can be done here a little faster.

My browsing strategy has become checking kbin.social main page for whatever the most active subreddits are doing (kind of like a bad imitation of /r/all), then checking kbin.social/sub (which is okay but skews heavily towards whatever the most active communities in my sub list are, as you've said), then if I have time, directly seek out a specific community from a list and sort there by Hot. It's vastly more cumbersome than I'm used to coming from Apollo, but the structure is there, it's really just UI changes (and a few tweaks to the content algorithm) to make this easier and faster, and that can all be done comparatively quickly, especially as app devs get involved and start using learnings from the best 3rd party Reddit apps.