More comments, in general. Many posts have tons of upvotes but zero comments so it’s hard to engage in a conversation.
Keep in mind that the same article often gets posted to multiple communities on multiple instances, dividing up the comment pool.
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.
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.
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
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.
More fun-type content.
I like Lemmy, but I feel constantly bombarded by depressing content and "comedy" poisoned by irony and sadness.
Yeah, I wish there was a "happy mode" on Lemmy for when I'm already feeling a bit of existential dread. I know it's not really possible without doing expensive content scanning but I can dream.
I've never been someone who blocks people and I've never been into filtering posts on any site/platform. But there's no shame in it here. It's VERY intended for users to have that ability and not just use it when they're being harassed. For a bit I was even considering using adblock filters to get block some keywords but that hasn't been as much of a problem lately for me. But just a few communities and accounts are responsible for most of the doom and gloom.
Depressing content, and comments full of political extremism where even if you agree in principle, if you don't take it to quite the extent the rest of them take it, they wanna crucify you.
Like...as much as my political opinions tend toward progressive, my time here has really gotten me to come around on why a lot of people elsewhere on the political spectrum can't stand progressives.
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.
I'd like all of the similar communities grouped so I can sub to one. It is annoying seeing the same content posted to multiple communities on different instances. It is also harder for new users to find.
I think we would have more active larger communities if they could all be grouped as one.
For example if we have gaming@domain1 , gaming@domain2 and gaming@domain3
I would prefer it was just gaming and all three synced the content and comments. If one node was to drop all of the content and comments would be there. There would be a larger more active community and less repetition. If a new gaming@domain4 joined it would be seeded with the existing content and sync any new content from that node.
I know it doesnt work like this but I think it would be nice if it did. I know if I go to a steamdeck subreddit I will find all the news related to that. Here I need to check the three or four that I'm subscribed to which is a pain point.
Yeah this is one of the things keeping me from using Lemmy as much. I am subscribed to multiple Steam Deck, Patient Gamer, and technology communities and they all have different levels of activity and I see a lot of duplicate posts.
I believe this would help a lot
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 know that it's a core design feature of Lemmy and the underlying federation, but it's pretty annoying that multiple communities with the same name can exist on different instances while not necessarily following the same ruleset or even purpose.
The small user base gets even more fractured that way, a lot of posts get reposted to multiple instances as well.
So you either:
You nailed my issue with the fundamental idea of lemmy. It’s like having a party at ten people’s houses with a tenth of the normal amount of guests.
Users.
Somehow prevent multiple posts with the same content from showing up in my feed consecutively. Some people post to multiple communities (which is fine, if the content is relevant), but sometimes I see 3-4 identical posts by the same person in various communities, one after the other on my feed.
I've blocked some accounts who have done this excessively, but in many cases it's valid.
Posts from ultra niche topics I'm interested in that inspire me to do things I would not otherwise. That is what I miss most.
I hope that the new "scaled" search helps solve this very issue
Users. Sites like reddit and communities like Lemmy get their strengths (and weaknesses, but that's ok) from the size and contributions of their populations. Lemmy doesn't have enough yet.
Searchability. Not that Reddit's is good, but it's better especially when using a search engine.
Image galleries in posts. Having multiple images in posts is currently extremely glitchy depending on the client, so having a central solution would be helpful.
More friendliness.
I would like different types of nsfw tagging and categories like i don't wanna see porn but if it is a gruesome article or fucking insane story or question or pics i would like to have a way to acess them without seeing porn.
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 like to engage in nuanced topics more than I like posting or commenting on random memes. Not necessarily to argue but to learn.
But if you post a comment in a thread that opposes the hive mind - heck even if you suggest the issue might be more complicated - you will accumulate down votes which I presume risks your comment visibility in other threads at a later time.
I wish the voting system could somehow be altered so that there's a useful/thoughtful indication separate from the "I agree/ I disagree" button.
More users and more niche communities
Reddit exploding again so more people are driven here. :P
A filter for USA centric posts / community / instances
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.
Better timelines. Currently there's a lot of content buried which makes it really hard to create consistent cultures.
keyword filtering.
The ability to easily hide individual threads.
Like, I've seen "Wendy's wants to go to Uber style pricing", I want the ability to mark it as "read" and set jerboa or lemmy.world in my browser to "show unread" and still have the ability to view my "read" items later if I want to refer back to them or whatever.
It would drastically improve my mobile experience and greatly improve my PC experience as well.
I'm on kbin, so Ernest coming back sure would be a huge boost.
What is Ernest?
The Kbin dev.
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