I seem to gravitate towards All + Hot lately. This gives me a really nice variety of posts. All + Top 6 Hour is good as well.
I’ve been subscribing to a lot of communities, but find that I often don’t browse by subscription. I mainly use subscriptions to bookmark communities in case I want to view them individually.
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.
It happened at least twice yesterday and once this morning on liftoff. It was pretty early though so it might not have been looked at yet.