What are your complaints about Lemmy?

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

Please post one top-level comment per complaint about Lemmy. You can reply with ideas or links to existing GitHub issues that could address the complaints. This will help identify both common complaints and potential solutions.

I believe there are a large number of feature requests on Lemmy’s GitHub page, making it difficult for developers to prioritize what’s truly important to users. I propose creating a periodic post on Lemmy asking users to list their complaints and suggestions. This way, developers can better understand the community’s biggest pain points and focus their efforts accordingly. The goal is to provide constructive feedback so developers can prioritize the most pressing issues.

The goal is to provide constructive feedback so developers get clear insights into the issues impacting users the most. Please keep discussion productive and focused on specific problems you’ve encountered. Avoid vague complaints or feature wishes without justification for why they are important.

Here is a summary of all the complaints from the last post. It’s interesting to see how many issues have been solved and whether or not developers value user feedback.

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• Instance-agnostic links (links that don’t pull you into a different instance when clicked) • Ability to group communities into a combined feed, similar to multireddits • Front page algorithm shows too many posts from the same community in a row, including reposts • Need to separate NSFW and NSFL posts • Basic mod tools • Proper cross-posting support • Ability to view upvoted posts • Post tagging/flairs and search by flair • Better permalink handling for long comment chains • Combine duplicate posts from different instances into one • Allow filtering/blocking by regex patterns • Avatar deletions not federating across instances • Option to default to “Top” comment sort in settings • Migration of profile (posts, comments, upvotes, favs, etc.) between instances • Mixed feed combining subscribed/local/all based on custom ratios • Categories of blocklists (language, NSFW, etc) • Group crossposts to same post as one item • Feedback for users waiting for admin approval
• Propose mixed feed merging subscribed/local/all feeds • Ability to subscribe to small/niche communities easier • Reduce duplicate crossposts showing up • Scroll to top when clicking “Next” page • User flair support • Better language detection/defaults for communities • Ability to subscribe to category “bundles” of similar meta-communities • RSS feed support • Option to turn off reply notifications • Easier way to subscribe across instances • Default to “Subscribed” view in community list • Fix inbox permalinks not navigating properly • API documentation in OpenAPI format • Notification badges should update without refresh • Single community mode for instances • Reduce drive-by downvoting in small communities • More powerful front page sorting algorithm

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Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Probably the userbase so far. Love the platform. The political stuff on here especially looks like it comes from people who’ve never been laid or been able to hold a serious conversation in public.

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- yoyolll@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I think there’s a lot of self selection going on. Most people who migrated here did it based on principles (or a persecution complex), so of course they will have lots of political opinions, often extreme. Frankly, it’s getting a little tiring seeing it everywhere. Even on gaming subs it seems like every other post results in a discussion about the evils of capitalism.
  
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  - misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    Even on gaming subs it seems like every other post results in a discussion about the evils of capitalism.
    
    I think it depends on community, I avoid all .ml ones for that reason. Don’t get me wrong, I could go on about evils of capitalism for hours if prompted but the real issue is that most of the user base is 13 years old either in their actual age or mentally so you’re seeing same performative cynicism over and over again. I’m also getting a feeling that over last couple of months it got much worse.
    
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  - Graphy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yeah I’m always glad that certain communities are thriving on here but they tend to bleed over into every single thread.
    
    I find it most annoying when someone’s just casually venting and someone else comes in swinging. I get that it’s especially hard on the internet to tell if someone’s venting or looking for solutions.
    
    Like at this point I think it’s safe to say everyone on Lemmy has seen the same pro Linux, fuck cars, and fuck capitalism posts a million times. I think we do without one post dogpiling on some poor dude if they’re like “man traffic sucked the big one today!”
    
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  - Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I agree, the issue isn’t that people here have the wrong political ideas, it’s that most post get pretty political.
    
    Imo it’s best to keep those stuff on the political communities so people who are not in the mood at the moment can get a break.
    
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- QuarterSwede@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  They do seem to be confidently incorrect often.
  
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  - Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Are they though? Lemmy is the only social media site they complains about big issues AND does something about it (we are self hosted).
    
    People on lemmy actually put their money where their mouth is, imo that’s better than Reddit that complain and still use the platform and help it grow.
    
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- Zarxrax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s the Internet as a whole.
  
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  - infinitepcg@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The political ideas you can find on Reddit are much more diverse. There is usually at least a bit of pushback against some of the most deranged ideas.
    
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  - SonicDeathTaco@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Eh, really depends where you hang out. Problem is EVERYONE hangs out at like the same 4 or 5 places anymore. You gotta get real niche to dodge the bullshit.
    
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  - ptz@dubvee.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    You’re not wrong xD
    
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- 1984@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Politics is always the worst communities because people are there to be little keyboard warriors and fight for their cause.
  
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  - laxe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I subscribe to very few communities and only browse my home feed. It’s been great so far.
    
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- Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  This and also that Lemmy has a major left-wing bias. I’d gladly take more right wingers here to even it out a little. Not that social media represents real life anyway, but being on a left-left wing platform does distort one’s reality a little. There’s a lot of views that are mainstream here but which I almost never encounter in real life.
  
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  - ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Lemmy doesn’t have a left-wing bias as much as it has a far-left and authoritarian bias. Though this heavily depends on instance. Continental European instances tend to be far more moderate than Anglo-dominated instances, probably because at least parts of continental Europe have actual experience with real socialism.
    
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  - Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    What if I told you the words right wing and left wing had only a marginal relevance in reality. Mind blowing I know.
    
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- Akisamb@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  people who’ve never been laid
  
  That was unnecessary. I know that people with poor social skills have more trouble with romance, but implying that all virgins are socially inept is a harmful stereotype, luck is a big factor in finding relationships.
  
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  - OneOfTheMicahs@rblind.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Not to mention that there are entire groups of people who abstain from sex for one reason or another, and that has nothing to do with political ideology or intensity of belief.
    
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- ExcursionInversion@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  100%
  
  Had to use filters to block most of it out
  
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ZeroDrek@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
My only complaint is not enough people commenting on / interacting with posts. I’m guilty of it myself (I was also mostly a lurker on Reddit) so I’m not trying to blame anyone but Lemmy often feels like a ghost town.

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- QuarterSwede@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I think it’s grown a massive amount in 6 months. Back then I would say that was true. But now? Most posts have plenty of comments. Each month the number of posts grow.
  
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  - Splatterphace@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Most of the stuff I’m interested in has either no community or a dead one
    
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- Mexigore@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Its so weird for me sometimes seeing a post with 100+ upvotes and 0 comments. Happens more often than you would think
  
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- laxe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Even posts with 100 upvotes and zero comments have value. It’s a quick way for me to see what’s happening without having to check multiple sources. The comments are just a bonus.
  
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- Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m doing my part!
  
  Next step is making a comment that’s more than just a meme.
  
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- Die4Ever@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah we actually have a pretty good number of posts but not enough comments in them usually
  
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- MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I think the same thing, and also guilty as well.
  
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Fake4000@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Lemmy lives to rip reddit to pieces and share any bad news about them.

I didn’t leave an ex to keep being reminded a out her. Just move on and share anything new.

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- laxe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I notice this much less frequently as time went on. Reddit had the same trend in Digg era.
  
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- SeedyOne@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’ve found it pretty easy to avoid with a bit of curation but I understand they’re a “necessary” evil that comes with every major user migration.
  
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maegul@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Multi communities. They would be a big deal IMO. If you could have multiple saved into a list so that you could check different feeds depending on what you’re interested in, it would be much better. Combine that with the scaled sort (as well as the others), and you’re managing your feed very well IMO.

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- Chozo@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  kbin currently has a "collections" feature which does this.
  
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  - maegul@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    AFAICT, it’s been something on lemmy’s radar for a long while too. I get the sense the devs never worked out how they wanted to do it or maybe were a bit too ambitious in what they wanted from the feature and so it was kinda left by the way side, unfortunately. If I were to ever start contributing to lemmy it’d probably be the first thing I try to pick up.
    
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- nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Allowing communities that are the same name across servers to “interfederate” would be interesting too, I’d like some way cut down in repeat posts in same community feeds from different servers.
  
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- wisdomchicken@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Piefed has this, and it's great!
  
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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Its not really a complaint, but more of a direction I hope we go with this.

I think we can do much MUCH better than reddit in terms of new features, and I don’t think ‘copying reddit’ is the way to go to guide development.

The number one I’m looking for: some kind of dynamic linking that is an improvement to cross posting.

Cross posting or repeated posting of the same news story was already an issue under Reddit, but the nature of the fediverse/ federated platforms is that a lot of the same shit gets posted over and over and over again. So some way to collapse or considate threads/ conversations around this; I think with the RSS feed nature of things it should be possible. Maybe its like a different style view or a bot we could add…

But spreading a conversation that might have generated 120+ comments into 16 threads of like 2-3 comments; it really breaks up the value of those conversations (which is more than the sum of its parts). In this way, the networked/ federated nature of the platform works against us.

So I dont know what the answer is, but in reddit we had megathreads. I think thats over kill. But it might be something to think about and ideate on, because spreading the conversation out inot many small threads really lowers the value of the individual conversations.

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- PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Merge comments from similar posts into a single view
  
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  - laxe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Third party mobile apps can also implement this, it doesn’t have to be done in Lemmy itself.
    
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russjr08@bitforged.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This isn’t a problem of Lemmy itself in terms of the software, so I’m not sure it qualifies… But, I find that Lemmy still has the same problem of Reddit where if you say something that the majority of users disagree with, prepare to be torn apart in the comments. And I do not just mean by getting corrected on something you said being factually incorrect, I mean more of a “your opinion is wrong because…”

For example, any discussion revolving around Linux (and let me just prepend this by saying I am a Linux user), if you happen to prefer using Windows be prepared to be told all of the reasons why you have to use Linux instead. And that’s usually tame compared to what I’ve seen on other subjects.

Obviously there are cases where yeah, you absolutely deserve to be torn a new one in the extreme cases when someone is actually being truly vile, such as trying to advocate for the harm of someone/a group of people - but the “extremes” are not what I’m really referring to here.

I’ve blocked a lot of users that while I’ve had no interaction with them, I see how they are clearly engaging in, let’s just say, bad faith with others.

In terms of software-specific issues, I can’t say that I really have had a lot of problems with Lemmy itself as of recently. As an instance owner, I used to have a lot of weird (what seemingly appeared to be, at least) random federation issues, but I haven’t seen any federation problems in a while now. Though just today I swear I submitted a comment somewhere, and its just poof not there - not even locally, but I’m chalking that one up to something I’ve done (whether a misclick, or I’m just hallucinating as badly as an LLM) rather than an actual issue.

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- laxe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The opinion monoculture is not specific to Lemmy. Most social platforms, and even real life social circles, live in bubbles.
  
  The Internet anonymity combined with the upvote incentives only make the problem worse.
  
  I agree with your complaint but I don’t see it as something that can be fixed. We can all do our part to engage civilly and respectfully with others, but it won’t be enough to change the culture.
  
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  - GlitterInfection@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    You identified one way this could be fixed.
    
    Remove or completely rethink voting.
    
    It was a bad system on reddit and it’s worse system here. There is no guideline for how it should be used, so a downvote means anything from “your community showed up on the all feed and I don’t want to see it” to “I disagree with you” to “your behavior warrants a report but I’m lazy and this button is right here.”
    
    It’s not clear what it’s supposed to be used for, even on reddit. And here it’s worse because moderators can see your upvotes/downvotes, so people rightly using it without any guidance are getting banned from communities for downvoting.
    
    Removing it altogether and replacing it with a tagging system would be an interesting option. Communities could choose which tags are available, and users could apply them to comments. Maybe “helpful” or “propaganda” or “friendly” or “hard disagree” or whatever.
    
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- halm@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I agree that on a userbase level Lemmy has a Reddit problem, and from the list of previous complaints in OP it seems it reflects onto feature wishes. There is clearly a load of users who just want to continue their Reddit experience here, original userbase be damned.
  
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  - essell@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The Reddit experience I guess isn’t platform specific.
    
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- Secret300@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Too long didn’t read, welcome to the Internet
  
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- iopq@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  When I post that Americans have higher purchasing power than before the pandemic, my data is downvoted, while personal experiences are upvoted
  
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- sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I want all the redditors. I just want them on a more open platform.
  
  I absolutely did NOT leave reddit because of the users. I left because of the changes to the platform.
  
  I love reddit users and lemmy users.
  
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Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Not enough people have left Reddit for it, mostly niche hobby groups. Which means sometimes I end up back on Reddit briefly to read something or more rarely post/reply.

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- Secret300@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah but there’s not much you can do other than try to convince them to switch. I don’t understand why people still like being fucked by big corps but to each their own I guess
  
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Salix@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Ever since the Reddit exodus, so many people joined Lemmy and so many people assume everyone lives in the US.

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- soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The downvotes are from Americans. Remember that downvotes are not a measurement of correctness, it’s just popularity and there are more Americans here than any other country
  
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  - onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Are there? I think they are just the loud ones (as usual).
    
    Anti Commercial AI thingy
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ptz@dubvee.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Some of those exist already with 3rd party UIs. I’m the dev of Tesseract, and it supports these, specifically:

Instance-agnostic links (links that don’t pull you into a different instance when clicked)

Ability to group communities into a combined feed

Basic mod tools (as good as they can get with the current limitations of the API)

Better permalink handling for long comment chains (Takes you right to the comment vs parent)

Combine duplicate posts from different instances into one (matches on post title and/or URL vs just URL with most UIs)

Option to default to “Top” comment sort in settings

Allow filtering/blocking by regex patterns (Can filter based on keyword, though I’m working on adding regex as a filtering option)

Scroll to top when clicking “Next” page (not really an issue with Tesseract, but pains have been taken to make sure you land back where you left off when clicking into and back out of a post)

Easier way to subscribe across instances (can browse other instances and automatically resolve unknown communities and subscribe)

Notification badges should update without refresh

The rest are all great ideas, but need API support.

Not trying to plug my UI, specifically, but just using it as a reference for your wishlist. Those are all thing that can be done with the current API without waiting on Lemmy devs to add support.
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- PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Nice! What made you decide to write it? Where can I find out which instances offer that UI?
  
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  - ptz@dubvee.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    What made you decide to write it?
    
    Every lemmy ui had some major or minor thing that annoyed me. lol. Wish I had a better answer, but that’s basically it. Credit where it’s due, though. I forked a very early version of Photon to build it, so it’s not 100% me, but it definitely stands on its own now. Both projects have diverged quite a lot since that.
    
    Where can I find out which instances offer that UI?
    
    Not sure. DB0, Literature Cafe, Lemmy NSFW I know used to run it, but not sure if they still do or not. I discontinued it in December after some internal drama happened but have since revived the project. I’ve only released bugfixes to the main branch, but am working on a new release with some visual polish and some requested features.
    
    You can host it yourself if you want and point it to any Lemmy instance. My instance uses it as the default UI, and it’s unlocked to allow connection to any.
    
    I’m in the middle of a complete refactor and hope to have that out in the next few weeks.
    
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- dojan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Oh cool! I was trying to find if there was a Tesseract community, and instead I found the creator! I’m loving the client!
  
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  - ptz@dubvee.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Thanks!
    
    I do have a community for it, but it’s been a ghost town since last year (some internal drama put the project in limbo, and I only revived it a little over a month ago). Currently taking advantage of nobody expecting anything from me right now, lol, and taking time to do a big overhaul of a lot of stuff under the hood and add some needed polish to several areas. Hope to have 1.3.0 ready to release in the next 3-4 weeks (hopefully).
    
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j4k3@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I can’t move my comments and history with me to another instance; only my settings and subscriptions follow.

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- PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Moving user profile to a new instance #1985: Provide the ability for users to migrate their account and all associated data (posts, comments, moderation actions, saved posts, etc.) from one Lemmy instance to another. This would allow users to move freely between instances without losing their online identity, history, and credibility built up over time on a previous instance.
  
  It’s crazy when I see this super popular issues closed by the main devs. It makes me feel like they don’t care at all about user feedback.
  
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  - lemmyingly@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    There was a submission made about how few people donate to the Devs. I asked about transparency and some links were given that show some things. I commented that it’s not as transparent as it seems at first glance and they responded that it’s fully transparent. I asked them to clarify but they decided to ignore me. I see why the Devs get criticism.
    
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  - flamingos@ukfli.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    Provide the ability for users to migrate their account and all associated data (posts, comments, moderation actions, saved posts, etc.) from one Lemmy instance to another.
    
    To implement this feature you’d either have to:
    
    Edit the DB entries of every instance to match the new profile;
    
    Create copies of the old content on the new instance and federate that out, thus duplicating all the data. You could have it delete the old content, but you’d still need to recreate all the posts and comments.
    
    Either of these would be very susceptible to abuse. Giving bad actors a button to force instances to run hundreds, potentially thousands, of operations probably isn’t the best of ideas.
    
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- j4k3@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The whining of people that do not post content themselves is wonderful. The defederation nonsense is irritating. The McCarthyism is so unbelievably stupid bullshit by people that have never so much as read what it is all about. Like let’s start with the etymology, common, communal - shared by the community; public. ist - one who has a certain ideology or set of beliefs. There must be a shit ton of billionaires around here, because Marx just talked about the rights of the common people against the industrialists. It’s super outdated ancient but the issues are still the same. Louis Rossman, the Fediverse, Linux, Graphene, all these things are in the same vain. Anyone that is against ownership of their car, home, devices, and media can go back to their reddit/Facebook overlords.
  
  It was MASSIVELY disappointing to see .world go down this path with sublinks which appears to have started based on this logic.
  
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  - ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Why would asking for input on thinking about something be so disappointing
    
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hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I can’t follow a user, only communities.

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- MBM@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Similarly, it looks like a.gup.pe groups don’t work here even though they’re basically just communities
  
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TheFrirish@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Right of the bat: lemmygrad, hexbear and .ml other than that lack of userbase, lack of interaction in certain communities. Also some good communites are hosted on .ml also some good users there so I can’t outright block that instance.

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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Better integration within the larger fediverse, mastodon, friendica, pixelfed, etc. This is a killer feature that none of the big walled gardens can have and will improve the amount of interactions we have (which is a big thing people keep comparing about) a lot.

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ByteMe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I think it would be nice if same communities from different instances could be merged in same way. Like there are 2 android communities.

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therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Multiple communities with the same topic across multiple instances, gets kinda confusing and makes it harder to block ones you aren’t interested in

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HarkMahlberg@kbin.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Ever since reading about the challenge of deleting an image from your profile, a GUI for that. It should not be an API call, not should you have to contact your instance admin to do it. It should be completely self-service from your profile page.

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guacupado@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
How the people here think they’re so much different than Redditors.

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PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I stopped using Lemmy due to instances blocking each other. I wanted to view content from specific instances, but none of the instances between the most popular ones allowed me to see all the content. I had to create multiple accounts, which made navigating between them cumbersome. This experience was more frustrating for me than any issues I’ve encountered on Reddit. I believe users should have more freedom to choose the content they see without having to create their own instance or manage multiple accounts.

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loki@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Hiding read posts means they’re now lost (when you’re logged in) if you didn’t save the link somewhere. Can’t find it after a day and now you have to check it on incognito.

But if you don’t hide posts you’ve already read, you end up with the same posts on your feed.

it’s a very small nitpick though. having new posts load every time I visit lets me see a lot of new content, I wouldn’t have seen otherwise.

I hope some app devs can put up a section for “read posts” locally so instances aren’t overwhelmed.

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Sneptaur@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It tends to be a little slower than mainstream social media, but I don’t expect that to be comparable nor do I expect it to improve quickly.

The user base is too small.

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Atlas48@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I wish they’d port reddit’s old multireddit feature over, and make those lists shareable.

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electricprism@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Upvote/downvote system turns content to a “popularity contest”.

There is no way to categorize content by " funny", “insightful”, " serious", “scientific”, " helpful", etc…

Steam is a good example of this done right, comments can be given Trophies, misskey does Emoji’s IIRC

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spiderman@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
User and Post flairs. Post flairs is helpful to me (in reddit) when I want to find posts that are similar. Like having a flair named “Episode Discussions” for communities like !anime@ani.social can help me to go through anime episode discussions threads. This is just my own use case and there might be better use cases for post flair.

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pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Indexing is a bitch. If I try to find this post again in the future I wouldn’t be able to find it. It was much easier to so so on reddit.

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dragontangram88@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I like Lemmy. My only complaint is that I have some other users that stalk my account, if they don’t like my comment on a particular post. They will go through my past comments and posts, to use that content in abusive remarks towards me. The same thing was happening on Reddit. The way they were typing made me think it was my estranged husband and some of his friends. They have been harassing me online for years. I don’t think the mods and developers can do much about that, though, unless they notice the IP addresses on the other users all come from the same area.

Anyway, I like Lemmy. For the most part, discussions seem more intellectual than the ones I have found on Reddit, lately. It just seems to draw a different crowd of people.

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reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
No organizational hierarchy like Usenet, and no tags or hashtags , so there’s no simple way to block huge swaths of content you’re not interested in — like sports, or politics.

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matcha_addict@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Searchability is bad.

Growing a new community is hard. I wish people used lemmyverse more often.

Having a fully customizable feed algorithm would be a killer feature.

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Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I know it comes with more users. But the default filter on Sync for Lemmy (Active) means I see the same post at the top of my feed for 2 days! Previously on Reddit that would change like the wind changes direction.

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jeffhykin@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The “front page” of most instances are not interesting to average people or to professionals (e.g. local gov that wants to go open source, like those switching to Mastodon).

Part is lemmy’s hot-sort is basically broken as a ranking, another part is bad language filters, another part is that major communities here (fediverse, Linux memes, star trek memes, science memes, etc) are off-putting with in-group jokes. Its a hard fix.

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Mastengwe@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Too much socialism, not enough common sense.

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