I guess one thing I like already is that there’s no requirements for Karma, stupid rules about Reddit’s filters which got my 100k karma account permanently banned for no reason at all.
Would you prefer Lemmy to be smaller like it is now or get to a reddit level popularity but without the reddit jank.
There’s already the fact that whatever algorithms there are haven’t been and likely won’t be tweaked or pushed to maximize engagement.
Heck I’m not even sure if upvotes are particularly critical to what I’m getting served…
It’s a bit more of an issue in its earlier days compared to now, but it also needs to stop copying Reddit. People aren’t going to go to Lemmy if its communities are just copies of Reddit posts.
At the same time, there’s an argument that it shouldn’t be trying to compare itself with Reddit anyway. It should try to be its own thing.
There’s always going to be people sick of Reddit’s rules as myself but you are right, let’s say Half Life 3 gets announced tomorrow out of the blue, first place I would go is Reddit to see the reactions, I think Lemmy competing on that department doesn’t make sense but I feel like Reddit needs some competition, I heard that the co-founder was building a Reddit competitor though I have no idea how that went.
- Enforcement of accessibility.
- No reddit-style moderation: the moderators at reddit are unaccountable tyrants.
- Minimal moderation preferably little more than legal compliance & accessibility/usability standards.
- Rejection of loaded reddit moderation concepts such as
- brigading
- sealioning
- calling anything annoying harassment
- Freedom to openly criticize moderators.
Frankly it being Federated in and of itself is already the biggest advantage over Reddit in my opinion. And let’s face it all of our opinions really that’s why we’re here. That already solves probably the majority of problems that Reddit had. As for the rest though? Bots are always a problem, not all are bad of course some are quite useful, but it’s something that requires constant vigilance to monitor because Bots can and will ruin communities. The other major issue is of course moderation. How do you police the mods? On that note I think the one thing I’d like to see done is limiting of power mods. Just like Reddit their do exist mods that moderate large numbers of different communities. This will always lead to problems.
This is unpopular but I’d like to see LESS niche communities. I dont want to see 1000 game communities I want to see one game community where all the people are making threads about the games they like. When its big enough then that game can split into its own community.
Because i may not go out of my way to find a community like guild wars 1 but if I see a post about it in the games community I’d join in. The interest isnt always there it needs to be created sometimes. And it can be created by people seeing threads of interested people talking about their interest.
As a whole, Lemmy isn’t really big enough to branch out into individual game communities just yet. They just end up petering out.
I wouldn’t be against it since r/games is used for mainly game announcements and r/gaming is a facebook tier cesspool. I wouldn’t mind a community like that.
I want Lemmy to do a better job than reddit at keeping fascists from being free to spread their poison. Lemmy is already better at this with defederation, but its something to keep an eye on always.
I think it would be cool if Lemmy were a bit bigger than it is now. Enough of a population to keep niche communities moving would be great, but Lemmy at its current size is a nice escape from a lot of the political landscape you see on Reddit or Twitter.
I want Lemmy to do a better job than reddit at keeping fascists from being free to spread their poison.
What fascists? They’re rarely here.
Tankies, too? They’re already here.
I don’t disagree, however my main issue with reddit was it’s awful system at triggering bots and it’s moderation system. I think we SHOULD have moderation always to keep guys like that away and innapropriate stuff, otherwise you’ll have another 4chan.
However I think Reddit is just too power hungry with bans for no reason as well, I’ve heard people here got banned for “Violence against ICE” it’s ridiculous.
Overall, I’d like this website to be more free.
Keep supporting 3rd party apps
I wish it was 100% devoid of nazis, fascists and other authoritarians.
Unfortunately the main developer of the software is a genocide denying tankie dipshit so fat chance of that happening.
There are literally openly communist communities on Lemmy… 🤦🏻♂️
“Communist”
Looks inside
It’s just a bunchbof failed Vanguardist movements that ended up becoming Authoritarian State Capitalism
Authoritarian State Capitalism
Yeah exactly, communism.
Communism is by definition a stateless, classless society. A “Communist State” is therefore an oxymoron.
I’m of the opinion that as large as this community gets (or any community) it’s bound to have many characters.
I guess I don’t mind that much because I think A) You won’t ever have a large site where everyone 100% agrees with you all the way, unless you are on a specific political community and even then I’ve seen many infights and civil wars over small issues.
B) I’ve dealt with many of them in worse sites (Yes even 4chan) that I don’t mind them anymore, as long as they contribute in their own communities and don’t cause harm for the website then they can chirp on their communities as much as they want, I was the kind of guy that enjoyed Political Compass memes on reddit even though it got ruined by Right-Wingers now, I was on that subreddit long before though and as soon as literal Nazis joined the subreddit got worse.
C) We should absolutely have rules to ban people that post innapropriate, illegal stuff but I feel like this website should be easier than Reddit on the moderating stuff, I’m 100% on banning Nazis and fascists if they make the site worse for everyone else, though I happened to have some interesting conversations with some Conservatives. Reddit on a whole has an awful moderating system that ironically enough doesn’t ever get checked by human beings and I don’t want to see the same here, I’ve heard people that got banned because they had the mental health crisis bot even though they didn’t do anything, I’ve heard people got banned for similar ways that I did for posting a meme lol.
Take of this what you will.
Never start replacing vowels in 9 out of every 10 words with astrixes.
Ast*risks
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
I’m already having a good experience with Lemmy. A couple of features that would make it perfect for me are better discovery tools for communities and the ability to merge feeds from similar ones.
And I have to say, searching for anything (whether here or on Reddit) always feels like a bit of a challenge. A more robust search feature would be amazing! But overall, I’m really enjoying the vibe here.
Definitely, the good thing about Reddit is that it had a good player as well because I’m a guy who spent a lot of time making content, also you can upload videos no matter the size (I think) which is cool.
I’m new but also enjoying my time, I like how non judging this site is because on Reddit I’d get messages like “Uhhh OP has an interesting history” basically trolls and stuff, but It’s whatever, I don’t mind.
That’s so true about the video player and upload limits, it’s no doubt a huge plus for creators like you? And I totally get what you mean about the more welcoming vibe here; it’s one of the best things about this space.
Just a friendly heads-up as you’re getting settled: while it’s generally much kinder, Lemmy has its share of ‘interesting’ characters here too (a wonderful mix of great people and a few bad apples). But the ability to curate your own experience is much stronger here!
Glad you’re enjoying your time so far!
I’m enjoying my time so far, I’m waiting my 100 day ban pass I guess from Reddit (I’m like almost there) and see what I do, I’ll probably keep using this site since it allows me to be more free than reddit.
A working search function, real annoying having to use a different search engine to find thing on a website that ostensibly already has one
stop fucking worrying about reddit in so many places
I don’t come here looking for news or updates on reddit nor do I need it to function as a mirror of reddit
Is there value on modeling something after another or taking modular parts that work? Sure, but a lot of posts and communities seem to function as watchmen, critiques, or mirrors
Let reddit be reddit
Lemme be Lemmy
Years ago I moved to Reddit as it then had a majority of intelligent and knowledgeable people. So good to have topics discussed reasonably, many new things to learn.
But it turned into meme city. And then became corporate.
Lemmy is nice so far!
Don’t be evil
