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I'd love to see more niche content. I post to my city and country comms regularly, but there isn't a lot in either.
It'd also be nice to see a few more viewpoints. Generally we all agree with each other. Any disagreement tends to be nitpicky and minor, rather than conversation worthy.
I echo this sentiment. Reddit is just better for niche stuff.
If you express a non-dominant viewpoint you get downvoted and insulted and threatened. Or the mods remove your posts, even if they are thoughtful and respectful. a lot of communities here have singular default viewpoints, that are extremist in nature.
The userbase itself is preventing diversity by attacking anyone, often violently, who doesn't agree with them. Usually under the pretense that their viewpoint is the ONLY moral/good/correct one, and any alternative viewpoint is immoral/evil/wrong and you should therefore die. they believe the world consists of mutually exclusive binary choices.
It's incredible pathetic. They also seem to play the game that any alternative viewpoint is also an existential threat to themselves... further justifying their need for violence.
A majority of the userbase here just want to live in their victim-bully echo chambers where they are free to slander others who are different than them and perpetually cast themselves as victims of those same others. They are trapped in their self-manufactured cycles of rage and shame.
I agree with the sentiment. We're in an echo chamber with little interest in change.
The userbase itself is preventing diversity by attacking anyone, often violently, who doesn't agree with them.
People being mean to you in a text medium isn't violence bro
Yeah it is. Intimidation, threats, and reporting you maliciously to remove your comments are all forms of violence.
They aren't physical violence. But emotional and psychological violence are very real.
Violence is using coercive force to get what you want. Bullying is a form of violence.
Agree on niche content, theres like barely anything for the fandoms that I'm in on here
too many people scattered after the last big instance shut down. not enough from reddit will jump over. used to have more varied topics.
You can always hop on lemmy.ml and talk about politics if you want to disagree with someone.
Despite being orders of magnitude smaller platform compared to reddit, my posts are getting way more traction instead of getting immediately buried. I feel like the slower pace rewards quality over timing/luck. Generally, when I make a post about something it's a topic I like to discuss so it's nice to get some engagement.
I think reddit is great if theres already a thread about whatever you are looking for or wanting to find out. But creating a new one and trying to get replies is pretty hopeless these days, its just gets buried, like you said.
Here you actually get replies, maybe not hundreds, but enough to get things going.
I like that lemmy is more international than reddit was/is, and so we get more viewpoints on different events.
I don't like how slack some community moderators are. There are too many communities that allow too wide a variety. I saw a post in mentalhealth.world that was a political complaint that didn't have any relevance to mental health, and the one commenter who tried to call that fact out got harassed by the OP.
I don't like how xenophobic a lot of users here are. I've seen a lot of users attack others over things individuals can't control. Hating citizens of XYZ nation rather than their politicians/leaders.
Not every Russian is evil. Not every American is evil. Not every British, Hungarian, Isreali, etc. Yes the people have the majority, but most regular citizens are just as scared of their government as anyone.
Yeah there's people that support their government to delusional degrees, but a lot of what I'm referring to is umbrella'd as, 'your leader is still in power so you must be a baddie.' It's not just on .ml either, it's on .zip, piefed, .world, all of them. I personally have been treated as a trump-loving ice-supporter or otherwise complicit, just for saying I'm American.
Some way to not see the same thing posted 5-10 times over.
Yeah. Am using Connect on my phone, which shows "comments to the same link" all in one view. That's not quite right; would be better if it showed all of the posts that had the same link together too, but it's a massive improvement.
Not suggesting we should have Fark-style 'only one post per link', because that ended up having some, eh, niche blog takes on news articles, since you couldn't post mainstream articles. But accumulating posts with the same link or same post together would be great.
A1: Less bots, mods aren't malevolent, no Karma points just a simple up/down.
A2: Federation isn't easy for newbs to understand, communities are often too quiet, I still have to visit Reddit as any tech-related questions I have actually have answers there and there's SEO so it's found. I did also enjoy reddit "badges" for some reason. If your instance gets defederated, or goes down, you lose everything on it. Bots that are here are Reddit scrapers rather than new Lemmy content
less Ai slop, reddit is full of it right now, especially the ones that generate a post.
if your instance gets defederated, or goes down, you lose everything on it
well not really, like you can still find plenty of stuff from lemm.ee on other fediverse instances. it's mostly only text as the media's not copied usually though
I think the biggest flaw lemmy has is the upvote/downvote system, same as on reddit. The arrows are used as an agree/disagree indicator, which buries unpopular opinions and rewards popular "low-risk" ones, thus creating the same echo-chambers we're all so tired of.
Some instances disable downvotes for this reason (so when using a client only upvotes are used).
You can also use the scaled filter to see more niche things that may have been buried otherwise.
disabling downvotes doesn't change anything.
for me Im certain comments just flow from most recent down. I like it this way
The userbase needs to be more moderate and grown up.
Way too many of the users operating at a toddler/teenager level and they have victim-bully complexes. and when presented with adult things like facts and reasonable discourse, they throw temper tantrums. the lack of open-mindedness, curiosity, and respect for others differences is astounding.
this is what destroyed reddit. the sensitive wannabe edgelords became the mods and took over and destroyed so many communities. they say randomness, uniqueness, and diversity as threats to themselves and systematically stamped out those things until many of them became bland echo chambers of users parroting the same cliche talking points at teach other and bias-confirming, and banning/removing any content that didn't mesh with their pre-selected 'correct' beliefs.
I legitimately adored reddit back when it was a diverse space of random people sharing things, but that when it was a weird niche website nobody knew about. it felt like a genuinely productive space to learn stuff from other people, rather than a endless stream of bullshit.
the issue with lemmy and fedi is that few users here seem to be interested in a pre-bullshit type of internet community, and very interested in having a space where they can push their own bullshit and get 'followers' rather than foster interaction.
I 100% agree with what you're saying. In the end, it's not Lemmy, it's people. And (many) people on the internet kinda...suck
the real world has the same problem, a minority of shitheads who go around trying to ruin it for everyone else because they are so full of themselves. who think everyone who isn't exactly like them is 'problematic'.
all you have to do is spend some time in local politics to see how rife so called 'good' people are with incredibly toxic and selfish views.
A publicly available free API.
Developers can create any/multiple methods to interact with Lemmy (ActivityPub). And if I disliked all the methods existing developers created, I can create my own.
It is my choice how I interact.
(And for me Voyager is perfect.)
I want to see some moderated semi-official communities. Like /c/all.
/all needs some filtering. I sometimes reply post on there that host very niche interests and get called out for not being a nazi midget bestiality porn lover or whatever the community sidebar rules dictate you need to be in order to participate.
I mean, if the community is closed to everyone, dont have it appear on /all.
The issue is those communities thrive on their victim complexes, and they need people like you to wander in so they gangbang on you to affirm themselves.
If they were closed off to their own members, their victim-identity wouldn't really sustain itself.
i have made the mistake of posting legit information on some of those communities, and the users swarms on you like sharks around chum, attacking you and down voting you and telling you how stupid and wrong you are for not agreeing with them, and telling you that your 'facts' are all 'propaganda' and their propaganda is the TRUTH.
It's very hard to get longer conversations going. It's hard to interact more than briefly on a subject.
Guess that's more on the protocol itself though.
I don't think it is about the protocol, more on the nature of ephemeral interactions with strangers over the internet.
That's part of it of course, but even if you want to discuss it's complicated (long threads don't work well on mobile, new people won't see your old discussion).
The echo chamber and reposts of the same shit ad nauseum. Getting called a Nazi and picking up bans for luke warm takes not agreeing with full on communism and not treating conservatives as one big maga group.
The loud nerds make this place unbearable if not for the fact that Reddit is worse garbage.
your account is flagged as 'low reputation' on piefed.
because god forbid you think the world is more complex than communism = good, everything else = bad.
low reputaion?? ooo oo I'd like to know what mine says
idk how I feel about a reputation meter though
I misread it you got the, notification and comment 🤦♂️ my bad.
What i like:
what i think could be improved:
what i think would be very cool:
I like that I can just block users or communities that I'm not interested in, and just browse all the rest. The amount of cross posting could be better, it's not uncommon to see the same post five times in a row.
Ability to display context in a message thread would be helpful with interactions.
i want some way to have multiple feeds, after subscribing to some comms that has way too many posts I can rarely see anything from the others.
Piefed does this
nice, maybe i should switch. thanks for telling!
I wish that Lemmy's Markdown variant didn't convert "(c)" to "(c)" ("©" if it doesn't show up on PieFed or some other piece of software).
I not-infrequently want to make lists where I am using "(a)", "(b)" and "(c)". It's also frequently used in US laws, which I will sometimes copy-paste. I never, ever see people needing to use the copyright symbol. If someone wants to write "copyright", they can write it out or go to the trouble of using Unicode on their client.
I do like the fact that Lemmy's Markdown dropped Reddit's auto-renumbering of numbered lists, which I think was a huge mistake for Reddit to do. Neat idea, but in practice, people would copy-paste items out of numbered lists elsewhere and want to retain the actual item and then Reddit would go renumber it.
EDIT: I checked. Apparently it doesn't show up on PieFed, which makes me like it even less, since that means that Lemmy and PieFed (and maybe Mbin) users don't get the same view of "(c)".
Can confirm that I see "(c)" on Mbin.
Edit: To explain, I think that's because Mbin uses the source field of the federated post, which contains the comment as you've written it, not as Lemmy renders it. Mbin then parses and transforms it to HTML by its own rules, not Lemmy's. So the (c) doesn't get transformed, because Mbin doesn't do that.
I assume it's the same logic for Piefed.
seems to show without conversion on both mlmym and voyager, so i guess it really is a lemmy issue.. maybe worth raising as a feature request
If our official governments can be complete cunts, than we can be complete cunts.
They proved to us we don't need integrity.
/S kind of.
I think people make communities to casually. To me they should find some friends in the fediverse of like mind and start communicating and lets say with at least 3 people willing to put the work forth then make a community. Like be serious about setting up the right side pane and modding and linking to things related to the community like wikis or faqs or whatever. To many folks are like. I like X im going to make a community and post like crazy and then im sure it will take off and I can stand down and just mod it a bit. Thats may work with someone willing to make it their life but every community should start with a team.
Creating an avatar and thread-specific flairs might be nice. I like that it’s fully functional, has a mid-sized community, respects privacy, is lightweight rather than bloated and avoids interactive doomscrolling. It seems the communities within the threads are more balanced, helping to avoid polarization and ensuring more considered moderation.
