Users
I love lemmy, don’t get me wrong, but I do miss the niche and specific game and music communities on there. Lemmy is mostly politics and memes at this point. All the more specific communities are very small.
And it would’ve been bearable, if the politics weren’t pretty much the same as on Reddit. From what I see, it has almost exactly the same libleft bias Reddit userbase has, with an (understandable) addition of interest in Linux, self-hosting and FOSS culture.
That’s just kinda the reality of demographics. Generally less people on the right than on the left, and those on the right are usually older, so still on Facebook. This site still over indexes with people on the left but so did Reddit when it first started.
my perception is that Reddit is more liberal while Lemmy is more leftist. it’s like comparing reform with revolution. of course, our individual differences would depend on the subs/communities we’ve subscribed to on top of our inherent policial tendencies
definitely agree with your first sentence, a lot of people (i think maybe from the usa?) conflate libertarianism/liberalism with leftism.
We need some of them karma farming bots that make 80% of the posts over there.
Videos. Viewing your up/downvotes. Profile posts.
Not a feature of Reddit, but I also miss RES features: user tagging, seeing my votes on a user next to their name, advanced post filtering, and more.
Wiki pages for communities. It’s a great way to collect useful information that would otherwise get lost in different posts
Small silly subs, like shaqholdingthings
And about six thousand highly byzantine cat subs.
Finding “subLemmy’s”. I just browse the main page and block the sublemmys i dont like.
You can search for communities and subscribe to them. Then you can select “subscribed” instead of “local” or “all”
I think what theyre getting at is lemmy doesnt really have a good way to discover sublemmies. A lot of the subs ive found were through all when they just happened to pop up now and again rather than specifically searching for a particular topic. Thats not a very fast way to find new communities. Which you could argue reddit doesnt do a great job of it either but lemmy is in a position where it cant afford to be inefficient.
That’s the same way I found subreddits on reddit, how do you search for anything other than subreddit names on Reddit?
I found a lot of the subs I visited through other subs. i.e subs that linked to each other. These communities did that because Reddit’s search functionality and discoverability is notoriously terrible. But they got away with it because of the sheer numbers of users. I estimate that just before the digg exodus, reddit had about 30 to 40 million users and that number tripled by a year later. To put this into perspective, lemmy probably has about a milllion users currently. Maybe two if we are being generous. Theres not really enough users or history to have the word of mouth growth reddit did without a good means to introduce users to new communities. Especially given that several of them are duplicates. eg. technology
You have a point here. On r*ddit, people just link a sub that exists or not, no matter, by just writing r/randomsubname. Sometimes just for a joke, sometimes to share a niche sub or something.
On lemmy linking communities is much harder so you do it if you really want to. You have to know the name and the instance and at least for me, there is no auto complete.
Better moderation tools. A lot of these features are nice to have, but there is no way Lemmy can grow without better moderation tools.
Even with the tiny userbase, we’re having problems with spam and rule breaking content. Add more users and it’s going to be a mess.
Ya, I dunno why mod tools are not a priority… So many defederations could be avoided with better mod tools…
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there is a solution to this…
But the communities need to be not just me. I’m not going to start something super niche and be the only one to post to it.
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I think the proposed solution would’ve been to just create the communities yourself.
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Videos hosting or someway to more seamlessly share video content. The Reddit player sucked fat donkey dicks, but the idea of viewing video in a post instead of clicking out to some rando site is much preferred.
doesn’t the app embed the video anyway? at least for the more common ones
Since Lemmy is just a small federated alternative to Reddit, not that many people are gonna know about it. As a consequence, not that many communities that were on Reddit are as big on Lemmy, if they even exist at all.
It’s actually better because now I can cut down on social media usage and spend my time on actually productive things, like watching paint dry.
A way to easily find and join subs, from my phone/in the app, so I can have my own feed. I’m not willing to set my stuff up on my computer. I’ve worked in IT for over twenty years and I hate doing anything on my computer anymore and can’t get myself to even try. It’s a me problem but it didn’t exist with Reddit. From Apollo I could find, subscribe, leave subs and have my own custom feed. I’d still use Reddit instead if they didn’t kill third party apps. But they did, so I try to make this work but it’s sucks trying to see content so I just don’t spend much time here either, which is fine, I’ve taken to doing crosswords instead when I’m looking to pass some time.
Just joined Lemmy because I found the Voyager app which functions almost identically to the Apollo app.
Voyager has a search function that lets you search Lemmy communities by word and phrases. I just used it to start my own sub feed.
I’ll try it out. I use wefwef and it has a search function but theirs no browse and the search barely finds anything that’s out there.
Hasn’t it been revealed that the devs are tankies who straight up refuse to implement features that they feel would undermine the cause?
For example, they have a hard coded Blocklist. There have been tickets to change this to instance implemented. Every time this comes up, the devs claim that this has already been implemented and lock discussion. However if you actually look at the commit sha the hard coded Blocklist is still in place.
Genuine question: What would be preferable to a hardcoded blocklist?
They already allow instance admins to add to the Blocklist. They could simply remove the hard coded one.
There are people who are automatically blocked by every instance simply by nature of the literal source code?
One thing I could use is a good desktop web frontend. On desktop I’d much rather browse Reddit(old+res) than any of the clients I have found. All of the clients are missing usable keyboard navigation, or the interface is too clunky for my monitor.
Check out old.lemmy.world!
Thanks. That’s definitely the best frontend available for me.
Check if your instance supports the “old Lemmy” frontend. Something like old.lemmy.ca
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There will probably be a new instance every day and they will therefore never be able to actually block “memes”
Sync supports filtering out communities containing certain words, and it works across instances. And you can block entire instances too btw. You can even block posts containing certain words btw, so if you’re fed up of say seeing M**k everywhere, you can add a filter for that too.
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I like the idea of individuals filtering their own content instead of moderators filtering it for them.
Currently? Pictures.
I might be alone in this, but everyone always talks shit about recommendations or “the algorithm” on a lot of platforms. It’s really important though. There’s a difference in usability if you see what you like really quick. If you want to make sure ppl don’t get it if they don’t need it, make it a new tab.
I really think Lemmy is great and it’s potential is even greater, but users and ease of use are the bottleneck rn, and that goes for every aspect of it.
Lemmy of all platforms is able to work fine without an algorithm. There needs to be some better sorting options, though. ‘Hot’ prioritizes new posts way too much, so you don’t even see posts that are 2 hours old.
Also some way of making posts from smaller communities show up higher since they’ll never get as many upvotes as posts from popular communities.
I agree. I frequently see posts that are months old using “new”. I don’t think that means what they think it means.
