Have you tried kbin? Same content in that it's Lemmy compatible, but slightly different sorting algorithm which (in my view) seems to result in a more rounded/balanced set of posts being promoted.
Yes there a different set of issues - it's earlier in it's development phase, but developing fast (collapsibling comments is being worked on, API (and therefore 3rd party apps) is imminent, many other improvements are developed and expecting to go live this month...

[–] some_guy@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Kbin is like 7 people posting content lol

[–] Teppic@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Circa 60,000 active users, but whatever...

You are rather missing my point. Because it sorts on boosts rather than upvotes it surfaces different things in the federated 'all' feed.

Edit: As corrected below it's about 10k monthly active users, but that's still circa 10% of the whole threadiverse (kbin + Lemmy) and only Lemmy.world is larger than kbin.social

[–] Kierunkowy74@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Slightly less than 10 000 right now, actually. Still, we remain smaller only than Lemmy.world

[–] Teppic@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the correction, I read the wrong number! I've edited accordingly.

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the difference between a boost and an upvote?

[–] cynetri@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think a boost is referring to the Mastodon kind, so basically a retweet

[–] Teppic@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Indeed. Activity pub includes favourites and boosts.
Lemmy uses favourites as an upvote. Kbin does too, but kbin also allows boots and it considers that a boost (which is like a retweet) is a more significant endorsement so sorting and reputation is based more on boosts than on upvotes.

[–] some_guy@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Turn federation off and browse /all. 90% of content is the same 4-5 posters or very niche magazines that are full of posts exclusively submitted by the magazine owner. Comments are a bit more varied but you can’t throw a stone without hitting one of about 7 frequent commenters, which also includes the 4-5 post submitters.

[–] excel@lemmy.megumin.org 1 points 1 year ago

It’s federated, so the local user count is completely irrelevant.

Especially when OP even specifically said that you would see the SAME content, just with different sorting.