I want to start by saying I’m not a hater - I quit reddit and have been very happy here. These are just my biggest complaints about the fediverse:
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The heavily-fragmented communities and the cross posting that it leads to. Lots of people posting the same thing on 20 different boards…kind of annoying for people browsing All
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Tons of communities copied the name of subreddits but didn’t bring over the rules/spirit that made those subreddits great…so there’s a ton of homogenous communities
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The mastodon/similar users using excessive hashtags and pinging everyone in a thread when they reply. Also I haven’t seen it recently (was there an update?) but the god awful post titles they make
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When a server is having issues, the posts show up in your feed but the comments section just spins so you can’t interact
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There’s a lot of terrible bots on here. The autotldr bot is only accurate half the time yet it’s usually upvoted…even when it makes no sense. The other bots I don’t like either repost shit from reddit or post every “article” (ads. Most of them are ads) from a few websites. The latter I can’t bring myself to block because there are some worthwhile posts once in awhile…
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Generally there’s only 2 big problems for me:
- The lack of users and activity. Not so bad in tech-oriented areas but many niche places or places for “normal” people are barren.
- The homogeneity of the people here. People are generally speaking medium to heavily left-leaning, tech-oriented males of western Europe/US. I identify with that group too, but I wish there was more diversity and less “echo-chamber”-ish content. There is a lot of content that humiliates, jokes about or bashes the worst side of the right wing or laments non-techy people and that kind of thing. It gets a little tiring and I’m afraid it only serves to push that other demographic further away from the fediverse, while we should encourage everyone to use decentralized social media. I don’t think it’s great if the fediverse just becomes “social media but only for left-leaning tech people”.
Still better than Reddit or Facebook 🤷
^this. I miss being able to talk to or ask questions of very niche groups.
A lot of stuff can feel pretty circlejerky.
I’ll add that I’ve tried ~8 different apps to access the whole thing and they all have some weird problems.
From your experience, which would you recommend and what’s been your best experience/approach to it?
I’ve found any discourse here is almost immediately met with deletions and bans. It’s just Reddit with harder-left slants, and even more trigger happy mods. The difference for me being that I get controls to block all of the communities that I don’t want to listen to. Unlike Reddit where you don’t really have the filtering options - Lemmy gives you the ability to block instances, communities, and users without some really artificially low cap like Reddit has.
I think the only thing that irks me, is that there’s a new lemmynsfw community every 30 seconds with someone posting some crazy outrageous kink and the web interface doesn’t let you block the community directly from the post on /all
There’s no distinction in NSFW topics either - whereas there should be NSFW (Porn) and NSFW (Gore), etc.
any discourse here is almost immediately met with deletions and bans … trigger happy mods
This really depends what instance you go to and what their standards of moderation are. If you’re not happy with your current instance admins / community moderators, then go to another instance or another community (or petition your current mods/admins to improve the situation).
I get controls to block all of the communities that I don’t want to listen to … Lemmy gives you the ability to block instances
Yes, mostly. Keep in mind that blocking communities and instances only affects which posts you see in their feed - the members of those communities and instances still get to vote on the other stuff that is in your feed and affect the post ranking in that way. The only way to avoid that is defederation.
new lemmynsfw community every 30 seconds
Wouldn’t an instance-level block fix this?
no distinction in NSFW topics either - whereas there should be NSFW (Porn) and NSF[L] (Gore), etc.
Tbf this is no different than Reddit and there’s a lack of support in the underlying protocol - it’s not entirely clear how this should be more generally implemented either. You probably want a more generalized tagging system, not just one additional category on top of NSFW.
new lemmynsfw community every 30 seconds
Wouldn’t an instance-level block fix this?
Who says I want to block everything from there? There’s no way to whitelist.
Right - perhaps an alternative user for your “scientific research” is an appropriate measure in that case? :P just a suggestion
It’s the same shit bro.
Not enough people on here to support more niche communities. Best solution for now is to consolidate into a few categories, but i miss being able to go to a specific subreddit to talk about the new episode of my favorite podcast or tv show
Too much CCP and Kremlin propaganda.
Seriously I haven’t seen any of that.
Anything left of Blue MAGA is labeled as one of the following: bot, shill, Chinese, and Russian propaganda.
Similar labels are applied to you if you are truly antiwar.
Stop trying to make “Blue MAGA” happen
It has been a word used by independent media for a while.
That is where it was picked up.
Republican-lites used it first IIRC, similar to TDS.
Oh, you will.
The incessant dogpiling is mildly infuriating.
There’s not enough cat communities. I miss having a community for every single way a cat might be photographed. Cat sitting in a water bottle package? There’s a sub for that. Cat showing of their lil beans? Sub. Cat whiskers lookin like fireworks today? Sub. Come up with a new idea for a cat pic sub? There’s 50 people posting pics in it today. Now it’s pretty much just !cat@lemmy.world and there are only a couple posts per day.
I mod a couple subs about cute bugs and I feel guilty if I don’t post regularly, because otherwise they can get pretty inactive. And that little bit of pressure makes it less likely for me to post. 50 upvotes is a lot there. 100 means it was a real banger. But they are real people, not bots.
Just generally not enough activity. The price of being smaller and not so bot riddled is having less shit to look at.
Discoverability of anything beyong lemmy.world, or the fact that I need a user everywhere
