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Hexagon is the bestagon. Hahaha...I like your hive response.
I'm using the Sync app for Lemmy. It looks like comments are ordered by points/voting and there doesn't appear to be a way to sort by activity. Hot/new/top/old are the options.
I don't deny that there will always be an element of echo chamber but I'd prefer it to be as balanced as possible.
Maybe because I'm using an app instead of visiting an instance website and have my default view set to subscribed communities that I'm not seeing an instance echo chamber. Lemmy just appears to be more programming/Linux/self host/home lab than anything else at the moment.
I'm using Voyager, but that's a good point: clients are free to sort the data however they like.
To be accurate, I think what I heard was that the "front page" feed was populated by activity, not votes.
As per the echo chamber, consider hosts like hexabear, or even my own instance, which has a strong left-leaning flavor. I joined my instance because it's regionally local, not because of the politics, but I think it's run by - and, at least initially, populated by - 2A socialists: most members appeared to members of a socialist gun club in Wisconsin (or Illinois?). And Democrat members that try to post on Hexabear get the shit beaten out of them, metaphorically. Votes, IMO, are a much gentler tool for voicing approval or disapproval than vitriolic abuse in comments.