I like that when someone creates a community, It usually just becomes a diary for them being able to post what they wanna see, I think we could all be nicer to each other in these trying times
Edit: damn y’all, don’t just say the bad thing you gotta say a good thing too
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 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.
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).
What i like:
- the fact that the software works flawlessly and has very quick response times to everything,
- the people here
what i think could be improved:
- more people, also more niche communities
- more content that is not political
- better connectivity across the fediverse, i.e. being able to discover content from mastodon and pixelfed and such
- this goes two ways: also that mastodon users have an easier time discovering lemmy content
what i think would be very cool:
- a fediverse map, which maps fediverse instances to physical locations. and allows to automatically show content from “instances near you”, i.e. if i live in vienna, it also shows me content from austria, augsburg, dresden, depending on physical location. this would help discover events and organize irl events when you can easily tell how physically distant it is from you. maybe also a per-instance list of the closest-by instances according to physical space for easier content discovery.
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.
Ability to display context in a message thread would be helpful with interactions.
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.
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.
Agree on niche content, theres like barely anything for the fandoms that I’m in on here
You can always hop on lemmy.ml and talk about politics if you want to disagree with someone.
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.
I echo this sentiment. Reddit is just better for niche stuff.
too many people scattered after the last big instance shut down. not enough from reddit will jump over. used to have more varied topics.
It’d also be nice to see a few more viewpoints.
Unfortunately, hasty defederation has made this impossible. It’s too easy for people in a community to ask for defederation instead of confronting other people’s viewpoints. Not to mention that when very contentious topics are brought up and there are whole communities full of people who dedicate a lot of time to reading about and thinking about those topics, it can create a poor situation where that community suddenly starts an outburst of too many disagreeing viewpoints. Compound that with the extremely fractured state of information and media where people live in completely different realities. It gets to be too much, and it’s exceedingly difficult to have a civil conversation when the gulf between 2 communities is so large.
Wanna name some examples? Because right now, it just sounds like a tankie bemoaning people not wanting the toxic waste that is your ideology flooding into their instances – through .ml but especially through the noxious cesspit of insufferable losers that is Hexbear.
Edit: And I’d add that defederation is barely a part of this. The main problem is simply that Lemmy doesn’t have a lot of users, and so niche posts tend to receive minimal attention and effectively no discussion. I moderate a few niche-ish (but not that niche) communities on Lemmy.World (federated with .ml), and decent-enough posts I make there get effectively nothing.
While there are more significant causes, one such cause is that sane people don’t want a social media where at every other step is a tankie shitting their pants about how North Korea is based as hell and how dare you impugn Kim Jong Un’s name. I live with the tankies because I’d sooner quit social media than use Reddit again, but I never said I was sane. (Plenty also wouldn’t like all the ancom shit, but I’m close-ish ideologically, and I at least recognize they’re good people with good intentions and not just blatant, cowardly liars.)
Yeah you’re exactly right, as I said we live in completely different and irreconcilable realities. The fact of the matter is, given the option between sitting down with people like myself (Hexbear user) who have extremely different views, or just hitting the button that makes us all go away, the vast majority of people will just hit the button. It’s not really even a liberal thing, people behave that way regardless of ideology (although I think there’s something particular about how atomized and depersonalizing the current state of social media is that makes that kind of behavior more common).
But you see my point — you’re perfectly within your rights to think that everyone who’s a socialist/Marxist/whatever has gone too far or whatever, and not wish to interact with them. Replicate similar preferences across a whole community, though, and it ends up isolating them and creating the situation that the root comment of this thread is lamenting. We’re just little echo chambers siloed off from each other because the cognitive dissonance of experiencing each other’s versions of reality is too much.
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 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.
for me Im certain comments just flow from most recent down. I like it this way
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.
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.
I misread it you got the, notification and comment 🤦♂️ my bad.
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low reputaion?? ooo oo I’d like to know what mine says
idk how I feel about a reputation meter though
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!
It’s small enough that I regularly interact with users I recognize and know a fair bit about but big enough that there are plenty of strangers. I like the radicalism too obviously. Best part is still the lack of ads though, can’t beat that.
I wish there was more silly haha content. Politics and news are great and all but I don’t want that to be all lemmy is. I do a little by posting funny hahas here and there. I don’t have any solutions to offer unfortunately.
Not funny haha but I follow cute foxes and that brightens up my feed
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
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
less Ai slop, reddit is full of it right now, especially the ones that generate a post.
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.
