I’m curious to get everyone’s thoughts on opportunities to improve!
More diverse politics stances rather than just commies and liberals
Oh man… you’re speaking directly to why I made Actual Discussion (consider this a personal invite).
We frequently get one-time posters coming in and flaming (or downvoting without reading) on any thread that may not agree with them, then when challenged with sources, they vanish. It’s brutal. I wish we could disable certain behaviours on our instance or in the Community itself.
Honestly I just and less politics. More diverse just means more fighting. I just want less politics in subs that are not inherently political.
Me too, but every other post on lemmy is about sticking it to their parents and their beliefs. It’s a bunch of teenagers who never grew out of their rebellious phase
Yeah, it absolutely is. It’s disappointing because I had hoped Lemmy would be a bit more working and middle class people and fewer kids. Not that their viewpoint is invalid, but reddit is filled with teenagers and I was hoping for a slightly older skew.
I’ll just try to remember that, yes, they are kids, and they are currently in their rebellious phase so I can’t expect much different 😅
I should be able to “hide read posts” and not have it apply to my own posts/comments in my profile.
More fun-type content.
I like Lemmy, but I feel constantly bombarded by depressing content and “comedy” poisoned by irony and sadness.
Yeah this place is by far the most negative social media I’ve tried
Yeah, I wish there was a “happy mode” on Lemmy for when I’m already feeling a bit of existential dread. I know it’s not really possible without doing expensive content scanning but I can dream.
Depressing content, and comments full of political extremism where even if you agree in principle, if you don’t take it to quite the extent the rest of them take it, they wanna crucify you.
Like…as much as my political opinions tend toward progressive, my time here has really gotten me to come around on why a lot of people elsewhere on the political spectrum can’t stand progressives.
I’ve never been someone who blocks people and I’ve never been into filtering posts on any site/platform. But there’s no shame in it here. It’s VERY intended for users to have that ability and not just use it when they’re being harassed. For a bit I was even considering using adblock filters to get block some keywords but that hasn’t been as much of a problem lately for me. But just a few communities and accounts are responsible for most of the doom and gloom.
That’s basically what !reddit@lemmy.world is. There are others in the same vein though I don’t know how active they are. Some of them are even automated but I feel like Lemmy hates bots more than most other social media platforms and have blocked them so communities that use bots to fill out content are largely ignored.
There’s an instance lemmit.online that mirrors reddit content and you can subscribe to the communities.
Like others said, there is so much content it’s hard to get conversations going, it works better to cross post interesting content to a lemmy community.
Thank you! :)
Sadly a lot of the small/niche sub Reddits I miss on Lemmy aren’t synced (e.g. MysteryDungeon, ModdedMinecraft and Palworld), some exist here, but the activity on them is quite small.
However I did find !feedthebeast@lemmit.online on there ^
Sadly it doesn’t appear to play nicely with the Eternity app I use to browse Lemmy though :/
It works now, guess it only syncs posts since you’re subscribed though! :)Still appreciate the info though!
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !feedthebeast@lemmit.online
Yes, it’s a lemmy thing that when the first personnel on your instance subscribes, it takes like a page of posts and then only the new ones going forward.
Lemmit.online used to have a way to add new subreddits, but it seems they have stopped accepting new ones. Must have got a bit too big to handle.
This has been tried, but there’s so much more reddit content that nobody can comment on it from here and start a good conversation. Plus many people came here to escape that.
If everyone here came to life and we could all hang out every day IRL
We aren’t alive?
Alive, but not living…
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
Sucks we’re all just fictional characters tbh
Wait, so dose that mean she was real the entire time?
Fixing that bug where if you do something like upvote someone while typing a comment, your comment gets deleted.
Stop making “Undetermined” the default language for posts and comments, so my feed stops getting spammed by foreign language posts that didn’t bother to correctly tag themselves.
Allow blocking entire instances (I think this might be in the latest update which my instance hasn’t yet migrated to?).
Beyond that, the only thing I really miss from reddit is being able to open the comment thread for a post and read literally hundreds of comments. Gets a bit underwhelming seeing so many front-page posts with 1 or 2 comments.
I’d be ok with language tagging being mandatory.
Other communities. I’m participating in !korea@lemmy.funami.tech but we have only a few people posting there, so when I see a post in worldnews or something about Korea I like to cross post it to there.
More comments, in general. Many posts have tons of upvotes but zero comments so it’s hard to engage in a conversation.
I do my part by providing my two cents fairly frequently. I try to balance it against not talking out of my ass too often.
Same here, way to go :)
can’t speak for others, but i’m mostly the quiet/introverted/lurker type…
sometimes i just feel like i have nothing valuable to add to the conversation
i will make an active effort to engage more tho
If you do decide to engage, keep in mind that you’re speaking into one of several identical breakout rooms rather than a giant auditorium as on Reddit.
In real life meetings I find that smaller groups leads to better discussions.
I save posts to check them the next day for this reason. Sorting by new gets boring pretty quick :/
I sort by active, that usually helps
Sort by top - 6h. That’s where the good stuff is.
I did a little informal comparison between my posts and the ones at r/Superbowl, and whole the ratio was at least decently better at the time, I still get disappointed if I don’t get a few comments on each post.
The likes are great and all, but to me, that just kinda feels like I’m just checking off boxes. It’s the most basic form of approval.
Comments though are what really let me know making the posts are worth my time. It lets me know I’m reaching you guys enough to make you say “hey this is cool.” And actual questions or you sharing something about a life experience, etc is worth way more than a hundred upvotes because it lets me know I’ve triggered good feelings in you from something I posted and it makes me want to post a hundred more things to do that again.
I always make sure to thank my commenters and let them know by replying, they are doing something as important as I am by posting. Without them completing the other side of the equation, it’s just me telling into the void, and it’s boring for me and makes posting a chore. But by you saying literally anything positive, I know I’m having an impact on your day, hopefully in a positive way, and that encourages me to post more, making a positive feedback cycle that will keep this a good place to come.
You are right, upvotes are useless internet points but comments stay for future people looking for info. This was why Reddit was useful, finding an answer to a problem in a 7 years old post.
Keep in mind that the same article often gets posted to multiple communities on multiple instances, dividing up the comment pool.
I’d be happy even if it was just Reddit’s “other discussions” tab
I asked someone i know why they didn’t join lemmy, their answer is lemmy is too fractured and they have to sub to multiple same community to get the full thing. I think it’s a quirk of fediverse/ap protocol, where each instance could have and want their own community, and some instance user would like to stay in their own instance as well.
I view it as a benefit because it encourages a small world, tribal model which works better with human brains.
It’s definitely different however, so I can see some friction if it’s not what people are used to. Frankly I don’t want one topic with thousands of comments, most of which won’t get read.
I think one needs to transition away from the dopamine fueled high and focus more on what brings meaningful discussion and sharing of diverse opinions. With that said, I wouldn’t be opposed to a feature that allows users to quickly jump to the same discussion on other instances or communities.
That’s my experience as well. But despite commenting on many post I also leave many without comments, so guess is more an issue on number of user.
so it’s hard to engage in a conversation.
Have you tried asking a question related to the original post’s content?
Yes, I do it when I need it but I mean more in general, if I enter an empty post chances are that there’s nothing for me to say. The more comments the more probable is you have an opinion to discuss or something to add to.
To change the default for comment sorting, YES PLEASE.
I am having to click “Top” for every single post. It’s become a reflex but seriously this is crazy. It feels like I must be doing something wrong but I have looked everywhere for the setting and there isn’t one. I’ve assumed this is just an oversight that will soon be fixed, but it never is.
I just don’t get it.
Using the app that is the vanilla website.
It’s explained here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
Basically, Hot and Active show posts based on upvotes minus down votes, with a time decay so older posts rank lower.
Hot has the time decay based on created time, so you’ll basically only see posts from the last day or so.
Active has the time decay based on the most recent comment, so if someone comments it can bring an old post back to the top.
There is also Scaled (if your instance has updated to 0.19), which is like Hot but posts from communities with less active users will get a boost so you don’t miss out on posts in small communities from being drowned out by big community posts with lists of upvotes.
I still think this is the biggest issue with lemmy right now. There should be a way for communities that are identical across instances that can connect where a post would be cross posted and connected with links to each instance it’s connected with.
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a culture of providing summaries for links
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fewer videos and images
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ability to crosspost comments or textposts from within the fediverse
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reading lists beyond just subscribed (a la “multireddits”)
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the ability to tag other users a la RES
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user flair for munis
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better mod controls (eg. make it easier to add or remove additional mods, automoderation, more streamlined reporting, federate moderation more effectively)
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better control of a user’s own content (eg. being able to delete posts effectively)
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ninja edits for tupos
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Just general stability things. Images not loading. Comment counts appearing but not being able to load. No handling for blocked posts via direct link. No handling for hidden posts via direct link when hiding already-viewed posts. Not being able to see your own posts when hiding already-viewed posts. Upvoting or downvoting a post clears the in-progress comment box.
