I'd like to invite you all to share your thoughts and ideas about Lemmy. This feedback thread is a great place to do that, as it allows for easier discussions than Github thanks to the tree-like comment structure. This is also where the community is at.

Here's how you can participate:

Post one top-level comment per complaint or suggestion about Lemmy.
Reply to comments with your own ideas or links to Github issues related to the complaints.
Be specific and constructive. Avoid vague wishes and focus on specific issues that can be fixed.
This thread is a chance for us to not only identify the biggest pain points but also work together to find the best solutions.

By creating this periodic post, we can:

Track progress on issues raised in previous threads.
See how many issues have been resolved over time.
Gauge whether the developers are responsive to user feedback.

Your input may be valuable in helping prioritize development efforts and ensuring that Lemmy continues to meet the needs of its community. Let's work together to make Lemmy even better!

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[–] individual@toast.ooo 8 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

how do I follow specific users?

[–] Steve@communick.news 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Use Mastodon. Lemmy is built around topics, not people.

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I feel as though I'm still missing something about Mastadon that others have absorbed and moved past. There was remarkably little content there, aside from the spam shotgunned into my feed by the few brand/city official accounts that I subbed to... What's the appeal? I set it to display the rando posts, but it appeared to be literally that, random shitposting the way that people scream into the void of Twitter or Bluesky...

[–] Steve@communick.news 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes exactly! It's just like Twitter or Blusky. It's 99.3% people just shouting into the void, without form or structure. You're not confused.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hashtags are pretty good.

[–] Steve@communick.news 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They really aren't.
They're a user created workaround, attempting to fix the structure-less, findability problem. Twitter embraced and officially incorporated them, because they had no better solution that wasn't completely rebuilding the entire system. They rightly new everybody would hate that.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The point of twitter is (more like was at this point) to follow people.
They're different formats completely, and one isn't inherently better than the other.

[–] Steve@communick.news 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Agreed.
Until people started following hashtags. Then they were trying to be about more than just people, and doing it poorly. Kind of like wanting to subscribe to people on Lemmy. That's not what it's for, and just shouldn't be an option, so people know that.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

following hashtags kinda tricks people into thinking that it's going to be good, but hashtags don't trigger federation so it's a bit of a disappointment unless you're on a big instance

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I never enjoyed Mastodon or Twitter either

but if you want to follow a person instead of a topic/community then you use Mastodon/Mbin/etc

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That's part of the problem, I can't even begin to figure out who or what to follow. I'm not kidding about the part where I browsed the random feed; there was random K-pop stuff, ultra-local politics with no context, posts about random low-key mobile games, stream of thought... I'm literally at a complete loss about where to narrow my focus with that platform, it might as well be a hacked feed of every single cell phone DM/individual group chat messages (minus the smut). I can't even figure out why I should give a fuck about it existing TBH, what am I supposed to do with this thing?

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think that just means the platform is not for you (or for me). If it was a good fit for you then you would have people that you want to follow.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Try hashtags.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

Mbin and piefed would be better for that.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

try Mbin https://joinmbin.org/

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

You'd want mastadon for that. Lemmy is for following communities. Someone could make their own community if they wanted something for just them.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip -1 points 3 weeks ago

PieFed has that