I’m curious to get everyone’s thoughts on opportunities to improve!
More comments, in general. Many posts have tons of upvotes but zero comments so it’s hard to engage in a conversation.
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
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
This is a good start :) thanks for the comment/contribution
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
Keep in mind that the same article often gets posted to multiple communities on multiple instances, dividing up the comment pool.
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.
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.
Ability to filter out political posts. I’ve blocked a few communities, but politics still invades things like news, memes, etc.
It’s impossible to completely block it, I’m just saying hypothetically, if I could remove everything remotely political, I would.
I like the idea. It almost needs to be a crowdsourcing effort.
Users can tag content or something
You know, there is proposal to add tags
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’d be ok with language tagging being mandatory.
keyword filtering.
For people to stop using downvoting as a method of disagreeing and only for content that is not appropriate.
Users.
I’d like a feed where I can’t see something again that I already scrolled past = saw.
More fun-type content.
I like Lemmy, but I feel constantly bombarded by depressing content and “comedy” poisoned by irony and sadness.
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.
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.
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
Turn off Downvote. Lemmy have some quirky user where they will lurk all the time and downvote content that doesn’t fit their own preference. Like, what are your purpose? If you don’t like seeing that language why not turn it off? Why not scroll past the topic you don’t like or don’t matter to you? It chase away a lot of people because they feels unwelcome.
These quirks is also the reason it’s hard to recommend lemmy to my acquaintance and friends.
How could they know how downvotes are supposed to be used if there’s no beginners’ course that explains how?
When someone uses downvotes against the rules, their downvotes should be devalued.
Lemmy has this functionality, you just need to join a server that enabled it.
Personally wouldn’t want the downvote removed, it’s a good indicator for things like spam posts etc. Better to have those down voted than not to imo.
I should be able to “hide read posts” and not have it apply to my own posts/comments in my profile.
That’s a good one, I never thought about the issue of it applying to your own content
lichess integration so every unresolvable argument can be decided by a chess duel. A bot reacts when it’s called by a command (plus arguments to customize the game) and drops a link (only OP can access and play, others join as spectators). Results are then posted as a reply. It’s not possible atm, but I guess lichess devs are based and won’t mind a little customization on their side for that silly matter. Federating with them would be a way to null many people’s bingo cards.
Lol thats a cool idea
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
Better timelines. Currently there’s a lot of content buried which makes it really hard to create consistent cultures.
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
