New and top.

Hot and Active are bugged in the current version, they are supposed to update a lot more frequently than they currently do.

So far, I’m a fan of “Newest Comments”. Any popular threads tend to bubble up there, but you get a healthy dose of new content as well.

Top Day and New Comments are the most useful to me. I think this will probably change as lemmy grows, though.

I usually search by new and filter by subscriptions. It moves slow enough to keep track of things as they appear.

Yeah, discovery is super frustrating right now. Would love to see a hide feature for both posts and categories. Find a lot of great categories from browsing new, but the majority I would be happy to never see again.