Comparing Lemmy and Reddit is a bit icky in general, but for something I would like to see is improved cross-posting. Something like an option to show them as one post with shared votes and comments. A good chunk of that would probably be on the front end and there’s probably some pretty funky edge cases with how federation works. Also I’m sure a lot of people would not want that, so it would have to be optional I guess.
I haven’t fully thought the idea through, but having combined communities - potentially just local for the users, or maybe somehow “shared” across instances.
For example, many instances have a politics community, so combine all three visually for the user alà multi-reddits, or something similar.
Possibly have instance level moderation. Instance A doesn’t like my post and can remove it from their community instance but instance B can still see it. Users from A can’t see it because their home instance doesn’t want to host that content, but B can still have it and interact
Came here to mention exactly this. It doesn’t sound too crazy, and would really help bring servers and communities to the where the users are and vice versa, with a bunch of extra benefits.
For example, right now !programmerhumor@lemmy.ml and !programmer_humor@programming.dev (and a bunch of others, but there are biggest I think) are basically the same thing, with many posts being posted to both simultaneously. If you subscribe to just one, you might miss half the community, but if you subscribe to both then you see duplicate posts in your feed, and the comments sections are separate causing less interactions and less fun.
I assume that both communities’ mod teams are aware of this issue, so would be happy to make the consolidate the communities into one if given the option, essentially mirroring each other. The nuances of how it all works - especially from a moderation perspective - is tricky but entirely possible to solve.
I have multi-community support via the Summit app. I’d think there’s got to be other these days also. It lets me keep track of all the various movie and TV groups all in one place along with a few other things where the individual communities are too small.
Having a single community that spans across instances is the big thing holding back more people from using Lemmy. You love topic X? Well which of the 5 communities dedicated to it do you wanna join? Just a confusing and suboptimal experience.
i think besides the ‘what the hell is an instance’ problem, the main thing the fediverse (the ecosystem is not just lemmy) needs that reddit has is momentum.
it took reddit 20 years to get where it is. you cant just snap that user growth into existence even with exact or better feature parity.
What if we all got together and advertised lemmy.world acrooss the fediverse or other sites.?
We probably don’t want to do that. Lemmy.world already has too large a share of the Threadiverse’s user base. Centralizing around one instance is how we got the Reddit API fiasco last year and… Reddit overall.
Also… please no more friggin advertising lol.
how in the hell am I advertising?
Nononono you’re not advertising of course, but the comment I replied to suggested advertising Lemmy.world.
Hell yah I would advertise lemmy world I would shout it from the rooftops if it helped them out. Why wouldn’t I?
Me and a lot of other people don’t respond positively to advertising. Actually, if I see an advertisement to buy something, or someone was bought to sponsor a company, I’m a lot less likely to buy the product.
Self-promo and just promoting stuff you personally like is different IMO. In that case, I am very much interested in what ordinary people want me to see. Hence why I’m subscribed to communities like !buyitforlife@slrpnk.net because these are humans with real opinions who aren’t just trying to make money off me.
But also…I block Internet ads, and IMO for your security everyone should be blocking Internet ads, so I’m not sure how taking out Internet ads in particular for Lemmy would be helpful.
I have not seen an ad in many years because i use ghostery. I am not talking of ads for lemmy more word of mouth. And through that way I think lemmy would get big.
that somewhat defeats the purpose of decentralizing social media.
I think youre not wrong in that we might need some larger instances to help users transition, but pushing a single instance is antithetical to our goals.
we also need to do a better job of spreading the content load.
How in your opinion can we spread the content load better?
lemmy.world is currently holding the brunt of the active ‘communities’.
those communities need to be spread across more instances so if lemmy.world suddenly goes dark (ala kbin.social), the threadiverse doesnt suddenly lose a majority of its content feeds.
I used to love r/askhistorians and that was a niche community. I think if lemmy gets big enough we can have the same type of niche communities and probably reddit will sue us but I am more than happy to donate to the legal fund.
continue to ignore it
Try to make my community or technical contribution as cool and useful as possible. IMO the utility of Lemmy is really the ability to connect with other people all around the world based on our interests. The money is only important insofar as the devs and admins need money to eat.
Reddit is a business, one of whose least important goals seems to be maintaining a safe online space for humans to chat. Lemmy isn’t about the money; it’s about the people.
I have a few ideas for things that might be cool, but none of them are “silver bullets” that will make everyone immediately come over to Lemmy, and frankly they’re not special. IMO we need to slowly, “organically” create communities and technical infrastructure that people want to come to.
Now you got me interested what are your ideas that are not silver bullet or in your opinion is a silver bullet?
It’s really nothing interesting, but here’s some stuff that I think might make Lemmy cooler, but also don’t take this too seriously since I’m not in a mindset where I’m ready to code this stuff myself:
- More characters in profile bio. Too short!
- Direct democratic election of moderators for communities as a built-in option. For example, mods can be voted in or out somehow by community action.
- In general, multiple possible built-in technical structures to support multiple social structures.
- LaTeX support because I’m a math nerd.
Again, none of these are silver bullets, and IMO it’s more important to get the core features right first.
Direct democratic election of moderators for communities as a built-in option. For example, mods can be voted in or out somehow by community action.
YEEESSSSSS!!!
Would you like to help me mod ama requests?
Nope, sorry. I am not socially competent enough to know how to moderate a community of any size. But it sounds like a cool idea, so I hope you find good mods soon.
Street hookers and coke…
The biggest issue with Lemmy right now are the repost bots/communities.
Why would a Reddit user who is comfortable with the current state of Reddit move to Lemmy if the content is mostly the same, but with a big part of posts just being reposts with zero comments or interactions?
They won’t.
Get rid of the repost bots, they are just cluttering up Lemmy and preventing original content from being seen.
The bots were needed in the past, but no longer.
How does a person identify a bot?
look at bot@lemmit.online
There are plenty of other instance specific bots that make it obvious that they are bots.
Hookers and blow for everyone!
Was with a hooker once and I felt so bad inside that I could not have sex with her. We made out for like maybe 5 minutes but the rest of the time we talked.
So just blow for you
Thanks for the offer but have done it before and I felt like a GOD for like 30 minutes then that was it. It is to short for the cash you pay.
How about pizza and beer?
How about pizza and an Sept 11th car bomb?
…wtf?
Instead of an Irish Car Bomb when I was stationed in Ireland nobody ever asked that even though it a simple guiness with a shot dropped. So came back to the state and was in New York and they had a Sept 11th car bomb. Because it was an Irish pub I thought they wanted to put their own spin on it. Basically it is you fill up a beer glass with vodka but only halfway. then they drop in a shot of whiskey then they fill the rest up with vodka. Trust me it only takes like maybe one or two and your pretty much forgetting the night.
Additional features:
- Proper integration with Mastodon
- Better video and GIF support
- Possibility of account migration between instances
- Polls
L MAO …with the polls thing it makes me think of when I have to ask a patient to rate their pain on a scale of 1 to 10. Then point out the chart. Thank you for the giggles.
Make the front page auto refresh or better when I refresh I see only new content. Sick of refreshing and still seeing same post over and over again.
Implement something closer to due process.
what did you have in mind?
Something like KarmaCourt but functional.
I was on reddit for 10 year and never heard of this so called Karmacourt. What is it?
That is a shitton of WTF. And also posting stuff they should not be posting on the net. Also thanks for the link.
