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[-] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 138 points 1 year ago
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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 98 points 1 year ago
[-] theKalash@feddit.ch 24 points 1 year ago

This, by a mile.

Especially considering the nature of lemmy means you end up with a lot of duplicate communities.

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[-] Slopz@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year ago
[-] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago

I'm ok with that. I went back on reddit after hanging out here for a while. There's a lot more content of course, but the comment sections were largely trash. A lot of dumb jokes and circlejerks and way too many people to actually converse with anyone.

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[-] Xantharian_ocelot@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

There's dozens of us! Dozens!

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[-] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 61 points 1 year ago
[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] konalt@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago
[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

This thread is making me love lemmy so much more.

[-] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

This. We could get rid of so many posts whining about political memes, and posts whining about the whining.

Just tag the meme as “political” and let us filter it or not.

[-] dulce_3t_decorum_3st@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lengthy analytical comment debates in every trending thread. I'm not saying it's absent, of course, but there is a distinct lack of detailed high-level discourse.

To be fair, the same has plummeted on Reddit in recent years, but that's the major drawcard that Lemmy will take years itself to emulate.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago

Your experience may have been different than mine, but I found that I've had more thoughtful, lengthy discussion on Lemmy than in the final few months on Reddit.

Sure, the topics I viewed were more broad over there, but discussion on popular threads just get lost in 1000 comments and even trying to spark discussion with people in New got me fewer bites than here. That and the antagonstic form of debate were turnoffs for me (sadly, a bit of that did also migrate to Lemmy).

Users here actually sort of listen to each other. Non-bot OPs will often reply to you. People will understand what you're saying even if you have a typo, without having to dedicate the entire comment about it.

Yes there are plenty of trolls here too, but overall my experience has been more pleasant than my 6 years on Reddit. Feel free to tell me about your experience, I'm not here just to disagree with you.

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[-] otter@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] thisisdee@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Wiki pages for communities. It’s a great way to collect useful information that would otherwise get lost in different posts

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago

Small silly subs, like shaqholdingthings

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[-] anon6789@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Album posts. I'd like to share related pics in one post. Not sure how to do this if it's already there.

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[-] Dee@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

More granular moderation tools.

But in the last dev AMA they made it clear that wasn't a priority. Honestly it killed a large chunk of excitement I had about Lemmy. Without ways for mods to keep the communities free of shit heads the communities won't be sustainable and will stop growing.

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[-] Fallenwout@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Finding "subLemmy's". I just browse the main page and block the sublemmys i dont like.

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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.

[-] NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] TechyDad@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I don't mind algorithm feeds as long as it's not the default view and as long as it's not mingled with the normal feed. Reddit is an example of the latter case. They mix "promoted" content as well as "you visited a subreddit once so we think you'll like this post" content along with posts from subreddits you subscribe to. I find that annoying.

So I wouldn't mind if Lemmy had an algorithm to recommend posts as long as it was in a "recommended posts" section. Then people who want it could click over to it and people who don't like that could just ignore it.

[-] Nurgle@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] 7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago
[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Middle mouse click

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[-] Resol@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

More users would be nice, but ~~Rome~~ reddit wasn't built in a day either, so I'm hopeful that we'll get there eventually.

As for actual features, I'm missing the ability to upload videos directly to the site, but I can totally understand why it isn't a feature as it would eat up a lot more resources than just text and pictures.

[-] PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah I wonder what would be a good design compromise in showing users videos while not actually hosting them on the website.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 13 points 1 year ago

None that matter. Lemmy doesn't have flair or awards or live chat or NFT avatars or any of that bullshit. And that's not a bad thing.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

Post and user flairs would be nice, it's helpful in certain community types.

The rest though, I'm fine without

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[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is basically reddit in 2010, which is awesome

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[-] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] WheelcharArtist@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago
[-] PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

A nice thing about lemmy is when we get polls they wouldn’t force you to load a webpage just to use them in third party apps.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Currently? Pictures.

[-] Oisteink@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago

A central place where everything happens. Or just the illusion of that.
Lemmy does not feel the same between instances/servers, and that makes everything seem smaller.
The only reason there was a small spike in lemmy users was because the competition entered phase 3 of their enshittening. Just like Mastadon lives off twitter going downhill. It’s not that the product is great, it’s just that it mimics a successful service and that service is going to shit.

[-] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 14 points 1 year ago

That's why I browse "Everything" instead of restricting myself to an instance. I then block communities that I'm not interested in, and also make use of keyword filters in Sync to block unwanted stuff.

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[-] moldyringwald@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I know some unofficial apps already have it but I like the idea of karma. Like nothing crazy with algorithms but just the summary of all the down/updoots on profiles

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.

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