Actual, literal, real sorcery.
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2026
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I wish it felt populated.
More advanced filtering. There's too much spam content, both human and bot made, that fills my feed. It'd be nice to be able to filter it with some rule system or regex or something. I don't want to see the same person posting the same thing across identical communities in different instances back-to-back in my feed.
cm0002 is the worst with this..I've blocked like five or six of their accounts but another one just pops up in my feed the next day. It's so annoying and makes the threadiverse seem like it's full of spam.
Exactly! That entity is really fuckin irritating.
As far as I'm concerned, it is just spam.
I know I do this I'm open to suggestions on how to ensure things go to the correct places but arnt "spamming".
I could try to crosspost less.
I think the main issue is that Lemmy is a fraction of of the size of Reddit. Most people probably assume they need to post the same content in different communities to increase visibility. However, Lemmy is so tiny that posting in one community is more than enough for everyone who would be interested in the topic to see it.
I think it'd be easiest to just find the largest version of a community and post there, ignoring all of the other communities.
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The majority of social media users, so basically everyone get off of the standard crap and move here
More diversity of opinion.
More national diversity. Lemmy is dominated by Americans and Germans, then a handful of worldwide Anglosphere, and Europeans. Asians, Middle Easterners, Africans, Latin Americans, Indians, etc. are practically nonexistent.
Spirituality and religion are barely talked about.
I feel like I stand out so much lmao.
I am a American citizen but I'm was born in China and I feel like my anecdotes just stand out so much lol... like remember being in a US classroom and I was the only Asian there... that's how I kinda feel like... The only other ethnic Chinese here are like 2 HongKongers and like 1 Mainlander in Europe and like 1 Taiwanese
The Asian Diaspora comm has like checks notes yea it's in the single digits... like 3 members of the diaspora I think. (shameless promo: !theasiandiaspora@piefed.social)
As for spirituality... sometimes I mention the idea of reincarnation as a hypothetical and feel like some atheist is gonna be like "ur stupid"
I mean I'm not gonna wait for help if there's a flood, not gonna be that guy that "waits for god to save him", but I still think about reincarnation a lot... it's kinda just part of the philosophy of the environment/culture I grew up in... its like I grew up with a weird mix of Chinese culture stuff at home... (like... as a kid I used to watch a lot of Cantonese and Mandarin tv shows...), then also the western (American, to be specific) stuff outside of home and on the internet.
But I'm so glad the fediverse doen't have the bullshit like "Omg u don't have enough karma / your account too new / we find your account doesn't meet our requirements, your post has been automatically removed"
I feel like I stand out so much lmao.
You do to me, lol
Every time I see your flag I immediately recognise you
I‘m happy you are here.
As a Romanian, I'm doing my part!
End-to-end encryption for DMs
End-to-end encryption for DMs
I mean, you can use GPG.
I could also use signal or delta chat, and not have to deal with private key exchange.
I believe this is something being worked on through Mastodon as well as a few other people are working on it but yes it would be amazing to see some E2EE for the Fediverse
As far as I can tell, the first implementation is on a new platform called emissary. They use the hashtag mls, which I follow because it’s also the name of a soccer league I follow. I think they’re estimating 6 months left, but then we’ll have to wait for all the other platforms to pick it up as well.
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A LinkedIn alternative. LinkedIn is the worst.
An LI alternative wouldn't be super helpful, you would need mainstream and companies to want to use it, and any open alternative would fail to meet that goal. The wants of the employee and the wants of the employer don't mix, thats why LinkedIn looks so bad to the employee. It's not meant to be for the employee, its meant to be for the employer. If it was the other way around the employers wouldn't use it.
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As far's AP fediverse ?
- username changing . Back wen had mastodon account ~~(we don't talk about that !)~~ , didn't see option to change it any where , so assumed wasn't possible technicly
- Account migration . Unhappy with lemmy.word's administration , would like to migrate (post|comment) history to another instance (preferably mbin one if one I like eventually shows up + gꚙd mobile client)
- less homogenous userbase
I feel like a bunch of trolls would abuse account migration tools by instance hopping before they get banned.
If their posts are deleted I don’t see this being any worse than the same troll just making two different accounts
I thought the point of migrating an account here would be to automatically migrate the post history too.
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username changing
It is technically possible, it is just extremely difficult, you'll need an admin to do it for you (many won't know how, and many will be unwilling), and it will 100% cause problems down the line. I wish it wasn't too, though, I usually change my online name every few years, and having to restart is a little annoying.
Account migration
It's possible on most fedi platforms, seems Lemmy doesn't offer it though. Not surprising, given it's not really the same kind of platform as the broader fediverse is.
Not surprising, given it's not really the same kind of platform as the broader fediverse is.
Why is that? (I’m a noob please explain)
You are following topics here, not users. Your username is not really imporant, as you can't have followers (but you can follow lemmy users in other platforms, but it's just the side effect of fedration)
Most other fedi platforms are built around following users
This. There's not really a big reason to pull your post history, or bring followers over, because you aren't the point
you'll need an admin to do it for you (many won't know how, and many will be unwilling)
It's 202fuckin6 , should be beyond possible for username changes on user level , fact AP platforms do them this way in current year's archaic . Some technical limitation ? Oar just nobody figured out how to implement it yet ?
Afaik it's a limit of how the protocol works. (This is speculation) They tie your whole account to your username, instead of some back end identifier, so it's not as easy as making account number 7826457(at)domain.com present as a different name, it would have to change the whole account, and copy all of the information over, and then delete the old account
More people who are into sports.
I wish the music production communities were more active. I know where are other musicians here who record and release and might like the chance to share and/or promote.
Reddit has several music production communities that, last I checked, were active, vibrant, positive, and actually served as places to get listens and followers. I’ve been tempted to make another Reddit account for the sole purpose of partaking in those subs, especially now that I’m getting my own projects started up again.
So maybe I’ll just put the question out here: Are there active musicians and songwriters here who wound be interested in making a community?
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I have 2:
Categories for the communities so that you can filter out large swaths of communities based on what they are aimed at, something like sports, or politics, or music, or art, or AI, should all be a single tick box that you can completely eliminate because you have no interest in it. It's just wasting bandwidth to even show you the community when you don't care about it.
And a shop for person to person sales so that we can establish our own capitalism with black jack and hookers.
The communities could even take a cut for hosting the show and I would be okay with that. It would be a great way for them to fund the server.
Piefed already has an extensive feed system for this btw
Government. I don't understand how they are still using the hellsites and that social app.
"You have been defederated by trump.social
Please submit to the nearest ICE Re-Education/Deportation camp for processing, be prepared to learn the El Salavdorian Language"
"You have been defederated by chairmanxi.ccp
Please write 'NOTHING HAPPENED ON JUNE 4 1989 IN TIANANMEN SQUARE' 1,000,000 times during your stay at Laogai"
"Your instance has been defenestrated by putin.kremlin
Suck on the Polonium, сука блять!"
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More sports content. It's incredibly sparse for sports and leagues in general, and absolutely nothing for local teams.
This may be unpopular to some, but I think there should be more interoperability between Lemmy and Mastadon. I know from Mastadon you can @mention Lemmy communities, but most users don't know about that. Maybe depending on the privacy settings of a Mastadon post, if that could be "forwarded" to a Lemmy community as a post, and it would be useful for many who follow a community in Lemmy but not the author or hashtag in Mastadon. It'd also be nice to be able to follow people who use Mastadon and have that show up in your feed on Lemmy.
More cross-talk would be a good way to make lemmy seem more active, too (which would address a common complaint that people have about lemmy, ie that its not active enough) because there is comparatively more activity on mastodon
Why wouldn't you just use mbin?
A communally-constructed Choose-Your-Own-Adventure story or stories, with or without RPG elements.
But it looks like I'mma have to make it myself.
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