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
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.
You can always hop on lemmy.ml and talk about politics if you want to disagree with someone.
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.
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.)
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).
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.
for me Im certain comments just flow from most recent down. I like it this way
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
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.
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.
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
Ability to display context in a message thread would be helpful with interactions.
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.
