Better search results on major search engines. Not gonna sit here and act like I know what I’m talking about but the major benefit of Reddit was being able to search a question and add “reddit” to the search and getting relevant results from years of posts.
I’d love to see lemmy reach that point as thats honestly been my only reason to open reddit recently
Searching from within Reddit has always been terrible, Lemmy’s internal search is very slightly better imo to that low bar. Search engine results are an interesting challenge just because of the way federation works, it’s information accessible from all sorts of pages.
I’d imagine to get something like that to work, we’d need a proper “Fedisearch” tool that can crawl and aggregate content across the entire ActivityPub Fediverse to reduce duplication, then search engines would hook into those results, rather than trying to make the Fediverse compatible with SEO algorithms.
So much this!
It’s really hard to find someone here who can engage in a healthy discussion, it’s ad hominem over and over and over again (not even talking about downvotes, as I don’t really care about those funny nunbers)…
And I really don’t get it, is it Lemmy specific thing for some reason? Why? It’s so absurd, that I think even /pol/ despite everything that is going on there has better discussion to noise ratio… :/Oh shit, this was supposed to go under a different comment, I don’t know how did that happen 🤦
Basically there: https://lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org/post/1184/5077
Videos
I’d love to see more funny video communities. (Bad drivers, epic fails, etc) I know it’s basic, apologies. Sometimes I just need to laugh.
I’d like more smaller scale projects and events to foster a sense of community, canvas is coming up and it will be a good test to see the dedication and activity of communities in the fediverse
I look forward to it! Some of the best moments in post-exodus history are the chains of memes spontaneously created from funny posts/comments (poop, beans, jeans, etc.)
Definitely some ideas for more network wide events like canvas, Lemmyvision would be fun!
I’d like to see more people jumping into specific communities for whatever game they’re playing at the moment.
I know we have the right demographic here for that.
I get a sense that people (including me) hesitate to be the very first to post in a community after a few weeks or more without activity.
I think there’s no real need for that, even if that post doesn’t get traction, chances are there will be a post inspired by that post which starts a cycle.
I suggest people who are worried about visibility try posting in a small community, and then crosspost it to a popular community (e.g. posting an Age of Empires discussion in both [email protected] and [email protected]), until things get off the ground.
It’s taken a while, but I see mostly enough of what I want to see lately. Maybe some more Hack-a-Day style projects / ESP32/Arduino/etc microcontroller projects and such.
I’d also like to see some activity revived in various music communities. Earlier on in Lemmy, those were pretty active with people sharing songs and memories about them. Less so, now. And why people downvote someone’s song submission is beyond me, lol, but I digress.
(Edited) I’ve gotten used to receiving downvotes occasionally and I’m not bothered. Still, it’s true and unfortunate that the way downvotes are given out around here can discourage people from sharing their creations or opinions on interesting topics like music, arts and crafts. Especially since those first few votes can feel like a lot to OPs.
my pre-edit response
Excellent points. I did intentionally word the question as “more” instead of less, in hopes of mitigating the number of unproductive arguments.
We are doing very well on the amount of memes, politics and political memes but it is quite a lot, can feel a bit gloomy at times and you know there are some of the “regulars” that post and comment mostly along specific narratives.
Fair enough :) I respect that. I’ve edited my comment to remove that bit.
Positivity, or at least more constructive comments.
I know a lot of bad stuff is going on worldwide, and I’m not upset the bad news gets mentioned, but it seems we have more tendency as a whole to revert back to the old Reddit ways. More arguing, more downvoting, more piling on to people without any comments why people are disagreeing.
Yesterday there was a discussion about homelessness and I shared stats from Census.gov, as the article from the OP was paywalled. Someone asked a question as to why certain states (basically the red ones) had less reported homeless and why it seemed they had a better handle on the issue than states like CA or NY. While I was typing up a nice response demonstrating causation vs correlation and how looking at a chart showing # of people as counted only in shelters may initially make it seem they had many less homeless when in reality, they have homeless people, but they may either be provided no shelter or they may end up in jail as opposed to being left alone.
By the time my reply was done, I saw the person that asked the question was being downvoted. They hadn’t made a statement saying the red states were better with the homeless, they asked a valid question as to why it appeared that way as they had called them the “poor states” and seemed confused how they had funding to keep homelessness down better than the other states. I had also responded to this person before on other occasions when they had questions, so I knew they weren’t trolling or spreading misinformation, but no one else, save one other person (with an accurate but snarky reply) chimed in with any type of answer, they just downvoted a legitimate question while offering no help.
I don’t feel Lemmy a year ago would have acted this way, and I see it on many threads each day. I for better or worse, have interest in politics and associated things, so I end up reading many negative threads, but I try my hardest to avoid making straight negative comments, and instead try to provide stats or more background info so people are understanding what they’re seeing and trying to clear up any confusion so they can make informed choices based on facts. I’ll even get downvoted though (not badly) for just sharing info with trustworthy sources. Heck, yesterday I got downvoted for talking about my heat pump, and almost every animal pic I share gets at least 1 or 2 downvotes. Never any comments why, so I just am constantly confused by it.
Just wish we did a bit more to foster a better vibe here. I spend less and less time in other communities and stick to my own, but that doesn’t feel like a good way to grow Lemmy. And I’m someone who currently posts and replies daily. Most people still just lurk, no matter what we try to do, and nobody is going to post if they’re going to get negged for no reason.
Agreed. It’s sad that so much of modern media is wired for negative engagement, and it’s probably hard to avoid “the anger” spreading to the nice corners of the internet as well.
However it sounds like you’re doing your part to bring positivity and rational discussion to Lemmy, so thank you for that :)
Came here to say this, but shorter. Imagine my surprise to see “Positivity” first word in the top comment. I know we don’t all agree on everything, but the vibe on Lemmy (for me at least) seems to be share our views or shut up.
The other thing is how political everything seems to get. Even outside of political communities you see it seaping into the comments. I might be remembering wrong, but reddit didn’t seem to have that issue (as much). If you weren’t in a politically orriented community the mods kept that kinda talk out.
All that being said, I’m sticking with Lemmy. I don’t hace any desire to go back to reddit even as a lurker. I hope lemmy gets nicer as more people join. I’ve embraced being downvoted. I will try to love communism and linux to a greater degree than I already do.
More positivity. Or more positivity upvoated maybe. Basically it seems like complaining and negative posts get way more attention than positive ones.
For example I keep seeing a lot of posts from the Linux community that aren’t about cool Linux things but about how bad Microsoft/Windows is. Note that I don’t follow said community so I only see the stuff that reaches the frontpage.
More posts and communities about just genuinely cool stuff would make lemmy a lot more fun to browse.
More communities dedicated to individual games. That’s what I mostly used Reddit for.
More articles…
There’s really not that many news articles that get posted. But for some reason even people that comment a lot, don’t seem to have any interest in posting articles.
There’s like maybe 10 people who post the majority. I’ve blocked a lot of the meme subs, but I think it’s the same there. Just a very tiny slice of an already small user base is actually posting stuff.
I feel like there’s been a buig decline just in the last few months
Good insight. Shoutout to @[email protected], @[email protected], and people like you that post article links and join the discussion, even if there are things I don’t agree with you on.
Bruh…
I mean this 100% sincerely, but good luck finding political articles different from what I’ve been posting.
There’s hardly any articles out there praising Biden and saying we need to stick with him.
If I post articles, it’s because there was nothing on Lemmy to read and I’m pulling articles off a handful of webpages I went to instead. Like, pretty sure 99% of my articles are from the AP…
There’s just not really anything pro Biden out there anymore, which might be why less political articles are getting posted.
So seriously, you don’t even have to post anything, but go look at some news sites and see how hard it is to find anything about Biden except pleas for him to stand down, or him saying he won’t listen to anyone.
Eh, I like it how it is. It’s already developing so fast.
“Nothing” is a perfectly valid answer. Even if development on Lemmy is slower than many would like, it is improving on the technical side. I’m sure excited for future progress.
Thanks.
I like what’s happening now and I’m excited to see what comes next.
