More active hobby communities.

Without discussing food, digestion, or hunger: describe the process of eating a grape.

It’s pretty good as it is. But the advantage with Reddit is that there are more niche communities, and those are the only reason I use big social media like Reddit. I’m subscribed to >50 subreddits and never comment. I have access to good information and expert opinion if I can be assed to look for it. Lemmy is more “stochastic” as in there are less people and less communities on here.

The resolution of the left/liberal conflict. Anarchists and Marxist-Leninists have mostly ironed out our differences to the point of at least being cordial, but liberals and the left still butt heads. Considering Lemmy is never going to not have the left, it will require either the liberals leaving, defederating, or converting to the left. I know you said no politics, but that’s really the basis of ending the toxicity that does exist here.

Everything is politics, especially the “absence” of politics. Would love to have a bit less of (USian) partisan politics though.

More non-tech niche hobbies, which need more non techie adoption in a way

Gotta have a requirement for people to upload an avatar when they make an account (and make the avatars a little bit bigger). Something about old forums seemed like a little village/community because you don’t have to rely on “nametags” (i.e. reading people’s username), but rather, you just know people by their avatars. I can still vividly remember people’s usernames and avatars from an old forum I’d go on when I was a kid. (yes, I know I don’t have an avatar. I’ll do it eventually lol)

I do think lemmy, at least on my instance and the communities I have subscribed to, seems pretty joyous already. It’s not fake-happy like instagram and it isn’t doomer-posting ragebait like reddit. For years, I felt stuck in a social monoculture I didn’t really feel comfortable inside of. There’s a struggle here and some people put a LOT of effort into their messages to more clearly explain their side. I’ve probably “saved” more messages here than I ever did on reddit just so I can look things up when I get a chance or use for reference later. It’s pretty amazing! It’s the first time I’ve felt hopeful about a social forum in a long time.

[now’s the part where I do the thing you said not to mention]

To make lemmy as a whole joyous instead of individually joyous servers that all despise each other, there must be a solution to the political conflicts between the servers. People who lived in the USSR would reminisce about how kind people were to each other back then and I think that probably would follow the same logic in online communities. To make lemmy truly joyous, we have to have a global revolution for the working class.

Everything is political.

I guess the one thing I can think of is mods achieving nirvana and stopping preferential treatment.

Reddit had r/massivecock. The degenerate community here is suprisingly small.

More courtesy, listening, and empathy of the human. I have seen too many times users jump to conclusions, extremes and high levels of hatred in their words. Things that if done in person would also cause others to avoid the situations, but when done online we all give it a pass. I’m sure I’m guilty of this as well. 🫠

I struggle to remember the last time I considered any corner of the Internet to be a “joyous place”. At least pre-2020.

it already is

slrpnk.net coming back oniline

Making it so when Mastodon users post here, they don’t shit the place up with their @s and #s.

More happy memes, more people posting about their hobbies, more people solving problems together.