More topics, more people being active
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A large enough userbase to support more niche topics. On Lemmy, like a lot of small communities, people tend to put the cart before the horse. They make places to share content for very niche topics but there aren't enough to warrant it. Plus sometimes you have mods in certain relatively niche groups that will remove content from their community because it is off topic, but their volume of posts is nowhere near enough for the occasional, technically off topic post to really matter. I see it in Discord servers too. Some places have more channels than users on the server. People get obsessed with categorization.
More niche shit!
Support from Nebula creators.
Nebula doesn't have its own comment system, so it's up to the individual creator where, if at all, they engage their viewers. Most if not all I've seen mentions reddit. Some may be on Bluesky too, but as far as I'm concerned Bluesky is just another proprietary platform that can turn into a monetization driven project.
I really want to participate in the jetlag discussions, but I don't want to log into my reddit accounts ever again. So I'm left with the nebula community here, which is better than nothing, but we're like 5 accounts that participate monthly.
This might be something to write to your favourite creators about. They want know if it isn’t brought to their attention, and I would certainly enjoy it too. Change takes time, but also effort by the early adopters.
Yeah, problem is I have no other way of contacting them than reddit, and I'm pretty sure my message will get auto-deleted and my account permabanned for trying. I don't care about the account, but a 10year old account with +80k karma does have some credibility, if I have to use that someday.
more amateur porn. well more porn in general, but specifically amateur.
Content and the number of users. Good lord there are so many dead boards on lemmy.
Ability to turn off inbox replies from comments.
Agree that would be nice, though I'm happy Lemmy doesn't hound you every time you get an upvote or urge you to repost. Here at least every reply is from a person.
on piefed, you can do this for every comment. there is a little bell on the bottom right of the comment (in the web ui) which let's you turn notifications on/off
E: also, interstellar has this in the 3 dots menu on the comment
Same, seems like a basic thing to block the noise.
IMO it directly contributes to the perceived argumentativeness of lemmy. Comments feel a lot more personal and direct when presented in an inbox vs on the actual thread.
On reddit I turned off replies for everything except the times I was wanting a reply.
Film and TV discussion threads!
Easy way to look at the context of a reply.
An active stopdrinking subreddit, and more active Sports sections.
content
Better specialized subgroups they can actually talk with people in you don't have to listen to everybody constantly whining about the billionaire class and how they don't get a chance to do anything in their life.
amen brother.
don't worry, those folks will invade your specailized subgroups to whine about their lives and billionaires, but at least if you mod you can ban them.
also, if you are moderately happy with your life, apparently you're a facist capitalist pig dog who is personally preventing another anonymous stranger on the internet from being happy...
Ability to turn off reply notifications on specific posts.
the niche communities over there, replicated here, but without the number of users some are ghost towns on lemmy. with them forcing popup logins piecemeal, we may get a boost.
also people scattered way too much to other similar platforms, when one instance shutsdown which is problematic.
also some politically heavy instances ban like they would on reddit.
Active communities. Some of the comms for my interests technically exist, in that they get one post every third month that gets 2 upvotes. Despite everything, these communities are still thriving on Reddit. Yet for whatever reason, any attempt to replicate them here fails. Smh
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More users. The scalability to accommodate more users.
Other than that, Lemmy pretty much has everything.
more users but not more bots like redbot
Poem guy
Roses are red
violets are blue
I'm not the poem guy
and it's time for lunch.
I appreciate the effort!
90% of the answers in here boil down to more users.
active users specifically
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Being able to clear all notifications. It's a basic-sounding feature, strangely isn't implemented.
'mark all read'.
i have that, you don't?
More sumo fans. Of course then I probably wouldn't be putting in the effort to do daily match recaps, so at least it's inspired me to create more content, which lets me talk more with the fans we do have.
More users to accommodate more active niche communities
Truthfully, Lemmy doesn't even have enough users for some mainstream interests, like sports. Lemmy leans very tech and selects for a certain type of user. But I'm sure plenty of people here are happy to have a place without daily NFL and NBA news.
Yeah, there's a few subs that I miss — particularly the ones for my city and my state — but r/twobestfriendsplay is top of the list. It was by far the sub that I most enjoyed interacting with since I joined years ago. Lots of power users who I'd immediately recognize by pfp.
The actual group that it's named after broke up a decade ago — they've been disbanded longer than they were a thing — but it was still loosely connected to a couple of the guys' ongoing careers, particularly two of them who host a podcast and stream separately. More importantly, it was a hub for discussion on games, movies, shows, comics, whatever, niche or popular, even if the relevance to the group was tenuous; the mods tried to block some topics but lost the battle on vtubers after the guys had Mori Calliope on the podcast, lol. I imagine it's even more lifted now that one of them streams with several vtubers.
tl;dr yeah I really miss some niche communities I'd been subbed to for years.
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