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.
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 previous post from six months ago. 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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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.
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 average posts grow. It’s gotten to the point that 50% of the time there are so many comments I don’t read them all. We’re getting there.
Most of the stuff I’m interested in has either no community or a dead one
Its so weird for me sometimes seeing a post with 100+ upvotes and 0 comments. Happens more often than you would think
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.
Yeah we actually have a pretty good number of posts and votes but not enough comments in them usually
I guess because people post about the niche they’re interested in, but there aren’t enough people to always find many others interested in it too
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.
Third party mobile apps can also implement this, it doesn’t have to be done in Lemmy itself.
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.
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.
I notice this much less frequently as time went on. Reddit had the same trend in Digg era.
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.
Multiple communities with the same topic across multiple instances, gets kinda confusing and makes it harder to block ones you aren’t interested in
Yes. If you’re subscribed to both, it should roll up posts with the same URL from similar communities (how does it know? Good question) into the same comment thread.
I think it would be nice if same communities from different instances could be merged in same way. Like there are 2 android communities.
Join both?
I like alcohol. That doesn’t mean every bar should merge into one big bar. Sometimes, despite two identical themed bars serving the same drinks and having similar clientele, you can have a cracking time in one and a shit time in the other.
Sometimes, that’s due to the staff (or mods in terms of Lemmy), sometimes, that’s due to particularly fun customers being in that day, and sometimes it’s just your mood on the day.
Having multiple communities for the same topic is a feature, not a bug. It also prevents a community from being strangled by 1 or 2 bad mods as another community can be made in response. Unlike the Reddit model, where there is 1 community for 1 topic, and if it has bad mods, well, you’re shit out of luck.
Yeah okay, I meant if all communities want it of course. Just sometimes it leads to smaller communities that’s all
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.
Sort by hot instead, active seems to purely go off of comments on sync.
I wouldn’t say hot is great either. Just testing now and the third post is a NSFW post that’s 43 minutes old, has 5 votes and 0 comments.
Top seems to work best for me but I do have to pick 24, 12 or 6 hour.
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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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so there’s no simple way to block huge swaths of content you’re not interested in — like sports, or politics.
The simple way is to show only the groups you have subscribed to.
But yes I do like Usenet’s organizational hierarchy.
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.
Searchability is bad.
Growing a new community is hard. I wish people used lemmyverse more often.
Try this https://lemy.lol/post/19638974
This certainly helps, but I think is not enough. If I go to the “All” feed, I get everything indiscriminately. I wish there was some in between mechanism. I don’t claim to have the answer.
This doesn’t address searchability also.
I can’t follow a user, only communities.
i would love Lemmy to act like Mastodon for users that opt in
How the people here think they’re so much different than Redditors.
When I create a Lemmy community it won’t be discoverable on other servers until someone on the server subscribes, how do you subscribe if you don’t even know it exists? I understand why posts are not sent to servers that have no subscribers of the community, but why doesn’t it at least send the name and description of the communities to other servers?
An issue for this has been filed https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2951
For now, try this tool https://lemy.lol/post/19638974
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. I was hopeful that this would change with user instance blocking implementation, but I feel validated in my decision after seeing that it hasn’t.
Wow, is that part of the reason why my feed sucks so bad? Seeing the same kinda stuff over and over again? I think I understand both sides of this argument. We’ve got users who are complaining of having their experience restricted with means outside of their control. They feel that perhaps defederation is a heavy-handed approach to this issue when a scapel will do. i.e. blocking and muting.
Then, we have those who advocate for a safe fediverse and view defederation as a means to that end. Or likely, from a more pragmatic perspective, they want to protect their own local instances and communities. I’m sure they’re thinking, “Dislike these restrictions? Too bad, find another instance.” And finding a new instance would solve your issues, for the most part. This is a tough problem I can imagine, and it sure does make for a less streamlined experience.
I think the best solution to this is a way to migrate an account to another instance, which I’ve heard is in the works.
The idea that it can be or should be a drop in reddit replacement for people who want to scroll an app while they take a shit. The most fun on Lemmy I have is with my community for vegan cooking that is self contained for the most part and something I couldn’t ever get off the ground for years on reddit. I think each community should be essentially hosted on its own instance with other instances being for user accounts and identity that can access the community. The front page of my instance would just be my single on topic community.
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.
Profile Privacy Settings #4223: Allow users to control who can view their profile feed/activity, with options like public, visible only to friends/followers, or completely private.
That’s so weird. I write controversial stuff here all day every day and I’ve never had this happen to me. Not here and not on reddit either.
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Yeah going thru her post history left me with the impression that if everyone seems to have a problem with you then maybe you’re the problem.
This person is stalking me and digging through my account to find things to bully me about. This is the second time tonight that I have opened my inbox to find this user claiming they have dug through my account history.
Just block them? I block people all the time. It really makes for a better experience.
I thought I had. Why is that person still allowed to comment in reply to my comments?
I just checked. This user was already blocked by me.
Weird. I haven’t experienced that before.
It is weird. The writing style, of the commenters who have verbally lashed out at me, seems to be the same in every abusive comment. Outside of social media, I have had strangers chase me out of job assignments by telling me that someone wants to shoot me. That’s been happening for about 3 years. Four years ago, someone hit me intentionally in a crosswalk and told me, “get up, it could have been worse.” Luckily, I had a witness who saw it happen, and he told the police that the driver appeared to have run me over intentionally. I didn’t even know the witness. He just saw the woman run me down in the crosswalk and heard what she said. If my husband didn’t send all of this after me, then some gang is after me.
Aren’t you paranoid?
Some of the comments have been abusive remarks out of nowhere, like someone suddenly calling me a “Nazi”
You’ve already been banned from two communities for being a Nazi troll, so maybe it’s not out of nowhere: https://lemmy.world/modlog?userId=6799954
Also, you recently came here because your Reddit account was recently suspended: https://www.reddit.com/user/DragonTangram88/
I’m not a Nazi troll. I’m not German and I’m not even antisemitic or racist. I didn’t say anything that was antisemitic or racist.
You can say that ’till you’re blue in the face, but the mods seem to disagree, and the modlog shows some of the racist & transmisic comments & posts you’ve made and the mods have removed.
Your account is only two weeks old, and 20 of your comments contain the word Nazi, often in the context of you claiming not to be one. And you keep pretending to misunderstand Nazism as a genetic trait instead of an ideology: https://lemmy.world/search?creatorId=6799954q=nazi
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She will tell you for the hundredth time that she was born in 1988 and is 35 going on 36. She’s pretty consistent in that claim.
CreatorID 6799954 now returns “unknown”, which I think means the user account was purged.
That’s good because if you let a Nazi into your bar, the next thing you know you have a Nazi bar.
They will go through my past comments and posts, to use that content in abusive remarks towards me.
Doesn’t the “block user” feature solve this? Even if they say something you’d never see it once they’re blocked. Or are you saying they create new accounts for each new abusive post?
There was one time on Reddit, that I blocked a user, and then a new account appeared and harassed me. I think it might have been my spouse. I let it go, but I made an account on Lemmy and moved over here soon after that.
Some of the comments have been abusive remarks out of nowhere, like someone suddenly calling me a “Nazi”, or demanding that I prove I’m female. My husband is a white guy that typically only dated white girls in the past. His mom is from Germany. I might be experiencing harassment because he doesn’t have someone to sleep with now.
