I joined chapo.chat from the discord. I was hopeful that we would be able to bring back some of what the chapo reddit was, a fun place for shitposting and I dunno, maybe praxis? What I see here is just all of the most hardcore people from chapo saying that eveyone who isn't on chapo.chat sucks. We don't have nearly the numbers for that to be a sustainable strategy. Right now, the hot feed is very "not fun". Lots of recrimination of people. A weird amount of fighting about china, and not nearly enough pig poop balls. That is all.
Hot is basically controversial since comments keep things alive for so long lol
There’s a solution: go to the (good, non-controversial) top posts of the last few days and leave a comment. It bumps them up to Hot front page again.
It’s really easily abusable by anyone wanting to force the front page to look a certain way, but it’ll work for adding variety until mods can put in a new algorithm.