I’m curious to get everyone’s thoughts on opportunities to improve!
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.
Being able to upvote without getting an error and having to reload the page, gets really annoying really fast
I haven’t encountered that problem, what platform/app do you use ?
Language blocks or automatic translation More people that post content in my languages Hiding duplicate posts in stacked cards More non-Americans for a more global viewpoint
The ability to easily hide individual threads.
Like, I’ve seen “Wendy’s wants to go to Uber style pricing”, I want the ability to mark it as “read” and set jerboa or lemmy.world in my browser to “show unread” and still have the ability to view my “read” items later if I want to refer back to them or whatever.
It would drastically improve my mobile experience and greatly improve my PC experience as well.
Along similar lines: using Jerboa, if I click on an image or link, I’d like the corresponding post to be marked as read. Sometimes I don’t feel like visiting the comments but I’ve seen the content so it shouldn’t show as unread.
Interesting, mine (Jerboa application) seems to do this already. I’ll have to check my settings and test out a few posts to see if it actually does though.
EDIT: nope! Don’t know what I thought I saw but it does not do that.
If everyone here came to life and we could all hang out every day IRL
Sucks we’re all just fictional characters tbh
Wait, so dose that mean she was real the entire time?
We aren’t alive?
Wait are you not also a bot?
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
Someone who runs a community, the ability to disable downvotes and maybe have more customization.
I wouldn’t mind the ability to post something like a Delta on a comment to show a changed view or something.
More comments, in general. Many posts have tons of upvotes but zero comments so it’s hard to engage in a conversation.
I save posts to check them the next day for this reason. Sorting by new gets boring pretty quick :/
Sort by top - 6h. That’s where the good stuff is.
I sort by active, that usually helps
That’s fair. I wonder if anyone has looked into the vote to comment ratio compared to other social media platforms. I’m curious how Lemmy compares
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 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.
I like this part of lemmy. You can easily toggle whether you want posts/communities from your instance or globally. And I agree that some of the communities are redundant but I’ve found that it is easy enough to follow similar communities so my feed is all content I like.
Yeah, i don’t mind that as well, i browse All instead of Subscribed so i’ll be seeing the same stuff anyway. For people who got really used to reddit though, it’s a challenge.
Maybe there should be an option to join the various conversations together if a user wants to see more content. That sounds pretty difficult to manage, though.
I’d be happy even if it was just Reddit’s “other discussions” tab
A popular suggestion has been to implement the ability for communities across instances to ‘subscribe’ to eachother, which puts the networking of these communities in the hands of the moderators of that community.
I want that feature above all else.
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 :)
Yeah, thats why i tried to leave as many comment as possible, even the low effort one. Sometime it just depend on the type of post as well.
Yeah I’ve started to contribute more with comments as well. Sometimes just saying the obvious is a nice way to get the community going!
Agreed! Even a small comment gets the momentum going
so it’s hard to engage in a conversation.
Have you tried asking a question related to the original post’s content?
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
This is a good start :) thanks for the comment/contribution
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Multi-reddit-like functionality.
Users being able to group communities together themselves might also be a potential solution to the many, many posts complaining about the fragmentation of identical communities across instances.
Indeed this would really be a game changer feature. However I don’t complain about community fragmentation, I think it’s great because the communities are not really identical but share the same topic, sometimes with different tone, moderation, …
A filter for USA centric posts / community / instances
I’d like a good Christian community
c/Christianity would love to have you!
I am subscribed, but I cannot see the posts in my feed because people keep downvote bombing them
Ah yeah, that does happen here unfortunately. People on Lemmy are unreasonably hostile to anything Christian or pro-religion, even moreso than Reddit was.
Yeah. It’s like the neckbeard atheists did it. Since I talk about religion a lot I put it on my profile, and someone got upset at me because I expressed disgust at a trans person being murdered because apparently I should either stop being Christian or not be disgusted at atrocities. It’s sad.
Nah, dude it’s was because you are a christian fundamentalist who pretends to care.
Christian fundamentalist? What does that mean? Someone who believes in the fundamentals of Christianity? Are there people who are “half christians” or something that only believe in half of the fundamentals of Christianity? That doesn’t really make much sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_fundamentalism
But I used the term more figuratively speaking then literal.
Instance owners ought to clean up all the unused communities that were created during the Reddit exodus by inactive users/mods only wanting to hoard the names. They’re basically redirecting traffic from actual communities and into a void.
I wonder how often it happens that some user has a hobby/interest, and go search for a community for this interest. They’ll find an empty community and leave without posting.
My theory is that if the dead communities didn’t exist, people who actually care about the topic would create their own active communities.
When you search for a community in lemmy, by default, the results are ordered by subscribers. If there is an active community on the topic, it will appear above any of the others, so the only way people are finding empty communities is if all of the communities are empty
If I could cross post in Sync like I can on the website.
Cross-posting to other communities or onto other platforms?
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 global presence. Too US centric to my likings.
Join some communities on instances from other countries.
Really?
I see so much more non-US content here than I ever did on Reddit.
Less Linux 🫠
Look, I installed Linux on my back hair. 😁
