I’m curious to get everyone’s thoughts on opportunities to improve!
Instance owners ought to clean up all the unused communities that were created during the Reddit exodus by inactive users/mods only wanting to hoard the names. They’re basically redirecting traffic from actual communities and into a void.
I wonder how often it happens that some user has a hobby/interest, and go search for a community for this interest. They’ll find an empty community and leave without posting.
My theory is that if the dead communities didn’t exist, people who actually care about the topic would create their own active communities.
When you search for a community in lemmy, by default, the results are ordered by subscribers. If there is an active community on the topic, it will appear above any of the others, so the only way people are finding empty communities is if all of the communities are empty
I should be able to “hide read posts” and not have it apply to my own posts/comments in my profile.
Multi-reddit-like functionality.
Users being able to group communities together themselves might also be a potential solution to the many, many posts complaining about the fragmentation of identical communities across instances.
More comments, in general. Many posts have tons of upvotes but zero comments so it’s hard to engage in a conversation.
I save posts to check them the next day for this reason. Sorting by new gets boring pretty quick :/
Sort by top - 6h. That’s where the good stuff is.
I sort by active, that usually helps
That’s fair. I wonder if anyone has looked into the vote to comment ratio compared to other social media platforms. I’m curious how Lemmy compares
I did a little informal comparison between my posts and the ones at r/Superbowl, and whole the ratio was at least decently better at the time, I still get disappointed if I don’t get a few comments on each post.
The likes are great and all, but to me, that just kinda feels like I’m just checking off boxes. It’s the most basic form of approval.
Comments though are what really let me know making the posts are worth my time. It lets me know I’m reaching you guys enough to make you say “hey this is cool.” And actual questions or you sharing something about a life experience, etc is worth way more than a hundred upvotes because it lets me know I’ve triggered good feelings in you from something I posted and it makes me want to post a hundred more things to do that again.
I always make sure to thank my commenters and let them know by replying, they are doing something as important as I am by posting. Without them completing the other side of the equation, it’s just me telling into the void, and it’s boring for me and makes posting a chore. But by you saying literally anything positive, I know I’m having an impact on your day, hopefully in a positive way, and that encourages me to post more, making a positive feedback cycle that will keep this a good place to come.
Keep in mind that the same article often gets posted to multiple communities on multiple instances, dividing up the comment pool.
Maybe there should be an option to join the various conversations together if a user wants to see more content. That sounds pretty difficult to manage, though.
I asked someone i know why they didn’t join lemmy, their answer is lemmy is too fractured and they have to sub to multiple same community to get the full thing. I think it’s a quirk of fediverse/ap protocol, where each instance could have and want their own community, and some instance user would like to stay in their own instance as well.
I like this part of lemmy. You can easily toggle whether you want posts/communities from your instance or globally. And I agree that some of the communities are redundant but I’ve found that it is easy enough to follow similar communities so my feed is all content I like.
Yeah, i don’t mind that as well, i browse All instead of Subscribed so i’ll be seeing the same stuff anyway. For people who got really used to reddit though, it’s a challenge.
Yeah I’ve started to contribute more with comments as well. Sometimes just saying the obvious is a nice way to get the community going!
Agreed! Even a small comment gets the momentum going
can’t speak for others, but i’m mostly the quiet/introverted/lurker type…
sometimes i just feel like i have nothing valuable to add to the conversation
i will make an active effort to engage more tho
This is a good start :) thanks for the comment/contribution
so it’s hard to engage in a conversation.
Have you tried asking a question related to the original post’s content?
Yeah, thats why i tried to leave as many comment as possible, even the low effort one. Sometime it just depend on the type of post as well.
If I could cross post in Sync like I can on the website.
Cross-posting to other communities or onto other platforms?
Other communities. I’m participating in [email protected] but we have only a few people posting there, so when I see a post in worldnews or something about Korea I like to cross post it to there.
If everyone here came to life and we could all hang out every day IRL
We aren’t alive?
Alive, but not living…
Wait are you not also a bot?
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
Sucks we’re all just fictional characters tbh
Wait, so she was real the entire time?
Better timelines. Currently there’s a lot of content buried which makes it really hard to create consistent cultures.
As in better sorting options?
Yes the front page sucks no matter what sorting option you use and it’s not because the posted content is shitty its just sucks in the way it presents it.
To be honest, I still don’t really know the difference between ‘hot’ and ‘active’
Wish those had more accurate descriptors.
It’s explained here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
Basically, Hot and Active show posts based on upvotes minus down votes, with a time decay so older posts rank lower.
Hot has the time decay based on created time, so you’ll basically only see posts from the last day or so.
Active has the time decay based on the most recent comment, so if someone comments it can bring an old post back to the top.
There is also Scaled (if your instance has updated to 0.19), which is like Hot but posts from communities with less active users will get a boost so you don’t miss out on posts in small communities from being drowned out by big community posts with lists of upvotes.
To change the default for comment sorting, YES PLEASE.
I am having to click “Top” for every single post. It’s become a reflex but seriously this is crazy. It feels like I must be doing something wrong but I have looked everywhere for the setting and there isn’t one. I’ve assumed this is just an oversight that will soon be fixed, but it never is.
I just don’t get it.
Are you using a specific lemmy app? I imagine that many apps have this
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Lemmy has heaps of apps and a web interface. Which app are you using?
An single sided interactive mirror of Reddit’s communities.
It would be lovely to have all that content directly available right here.
And to be able to discuss the content with other Lemmy users.
But without being able to discuss / send back to the Reddit users.
This has been tried, but there’s so much more reddit content that nobody can comment on it from here and start a good conversation. Plus many people came here to escape that.
Fair, a lot of dumb toxicity on Reddit.
Perhaps only syncing posts and not comments could be a good idea?
That’s basically what [email protected] is. There are others in the same vein though I don’t know how active they are. Some of them are even automated but I feel like Lemmy hates bots more than most other social media platforms and have blocked them so communities that use bots to fill out content are largely ignored.
I was more hoping on being able to read niche/small sub Reddits straight on Lemmy
Since most of them don’t exist here yet / have much less content
I’m on kbin, so Ernest coming back sure would be a huge boost.
Yeah the lack of communication from that side is a shame really. I’ve about had it, sorry ernest. The spam is becoming too much.
What is Ernest?
The Kbin dev.
Turn off Downvote. Lemmy have some quirky user where they will lurk all the time and downvote content that doesn’t fit their own preference. Like, what are your purpose? If you don’t like seeing that language why not turn it off? Why not scroll past the topic you don’t like or don’t matter to you? It chase away a lot of people because they feels unwelcome.
These quirks is also the reason it’s hard to recommend lemmy to my acquaintance and friends.
Lemmy has this functionality, you just need to join a server that enabled it.
I’m an admin, i know there’s this function, and my instance is super small. What i’m saying is it affect the user of big instance more when it’s allowed and consequently Lemmy, since new user would likelier to sign up with these big instance than the smaller one(like mine).
Like for example, all post in [email protected], a community that promote new community have downvote. Why? No one know. I remember the Bangladeshi’s community post got negative vote count when it’s posted, but only a bit later on the upvote start pouring in.
I like that after this was posted, all the comments in this thread got downvoted lol
It’s from the same person lol
Personally wouldn’t want the downvote removed, it’s a good indicator for things like spam posts etc. Better to have those down voted than not to imo.
True. But I’d also like to see a reduction of seemingly general purpose down voting. There seem to be users who do nothing but down vote everything in sight.
The down ote button is a disagree button. You can complain all you want, but that’s what it is and will always be.
Yeah, i would also like it to remain there, but i feels like from my experience, i’ve seen it used very arbitrary/maliciously on innocent post than on spam post. And people just can’t refrain from downvoting language they don’t understand.
How could they know how downvotes are supposed to be used if there’s no beginners’ course that explains how?
When someone uses downvotes against the rules, their downvotes should be devalued.
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a culture of providing summaries for links
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fewer videos and images
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ability to crosspost comments or textposts from within the fediverse
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reading lists beyond just subscribed (a la “multireddits”)
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the ability to tag other users a la RES
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user flair for munis
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better mod controls (eg. make it easier to add or remove additional mods, automoderation, more streamlined reporting, federate moderation more effectively)
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better control of a user’s own content (eg. being able to delete posts effectively)
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ninja edits for tupos
Where are you seeing videos? Or are you talking about links to YouTube?
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I still think this is the biggest issue with lemmy right now. There should be a way for communities that are identical across instances that can connect where a post would be cross posted and connected with links to each instance it’s connected with.
Just general stability things. Images not loading. Comment counts appearing but not being able to load. No handling for blocked posts via direct link. No handling for hidden posts via direct link when hiding already-viewed posts. Not being able to see your own posts when hiding already-viewed posts. Upvoting or downvoting a post clears the in-progress comment box.
Fixing that bug where if you do something like upvote someone while typing a comment, your comment gets deleted.
Stop making “Undetermined” the default language for posts and comments, so my feed stops getting spammed by foreign language posts that didn’t bother to correctly tag themselves.
Allow blocking entire instances (I think this might be in the latest update which my instance hasn’t yet migrated to?).
Beyond that, the only thing I really miss from reddit is being able to open the comment thread for a post and read literally hundreds of comments. Gets a bit underwhelming seeing so many front-page posts with 1 or 2 comments.
I’d be ok with language tagging being mandatory.
