When you block someone, you can still see that they replied to you. I don't want to know of their existence period, that's why I'm blocking them and they shouldn't have a chance to respond to me period. It's not blocking if they can reply to me and I still see a notification that they did.
Can't filter out non-English communities. On any given day, I could scroll through my feed and a third of them would be languages I can't read. I wish I could, but I can't.
I have to block the subcommunities one by one, and then block them again and again for every other instance that hosts that sublemmy
You can set your languages in the settings. As the warning say, make sure to keep "Undetermined" check along English
I use the Connect app to browse Lemmy and I didn't see such a setting. I'm guessing I have to do this on desktop. I haven't logged in through there since I signed up but I'll check it out, thanks.
If a post is deleted for any reason it nukes everything, even the comments.
I can't go back and view any comments that I was replying to or that I had saved, I can only see my own comment.
Not enough video game communities. I think that was a huge part of Reddits initial success. Even to this day I still search "Problem + /reddit" on google whenever I have issues in a game. Reddit often holds the core community off a video game. It's often detrimental to a games success to have a Reddit community. Lemmy has communities for some games, but they are mostly inactive or have only 10-60 users. So don't even have the latest patch notes posted.
There was this post 2 months ago on !newcommunities@lemmy.world to list all the video games communities: https://lemmy.world/post/19252451
Maybe you could start another one?
Maybe I wasn't clear. I meant community's for specific games, rather than gaming communities in general.
As a non-US user myself, beside the lack of participation on Lemmy, I think the kind of replies and the instant escalation to this comment, in this very thread is a great example of why Lemmy can suck, hard.
The world, exactly like the Internet, does not end at the US borders.
And yep, even though many US citizens seem to be on the verge of slicing each other throats, it doesn't mean the rest of the world should behave the same. Lemmy users should still be able to discuss freely even between people of varying opinions, or even of completely opposite opinions.
This is comedy gold 🤣. Things get political so fast on here
It's funny, cuz i remember tons of responses like that when i used Reddit, too. But the onslaught was often worse cuz the larger user base had more power to bombard you with insults about how wrong you are, and give you 49 downvotes in 10 minutes just cuz you give some criticisms about a popular game you didn't happen to enjoy and forgot to add reluctant praise to ("i recognize it's a great game and well made, but its just not for me sad face.")
I think this is just a bad part of the internet, in general. Similar things would even happen in AOL chatrooms if someone voiced a disliked opinion, I remember Diamond chat would get crazy
To be fair it kinda is a bad part of even real world communities. Try going to a biker bar, animecon or any other community and saying "Gosh darn I don't like ____". Best case people would look at you funny and leave, worst - you getting a knuckle sandwich
It's my own observation, but a lot of people on Lemmy are smug assholes, including many mods.
Shockingly familiar to early days Reddit. There was a sweet spot before Reddit got as big as it is today. I can't tell you when it was but it was there somewhere.
How did someone describe it? Like 14y/o 4chan users with the cynicism of a 45y/o?
That feels shockingly accurate
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion man.
Not enough people around to discuss some more niche topics and hobbies.
Have you tried being more in to US Politics, Linux and Privacy? I've found several very vibrant communities for those here.
Specific video game subs are what I miss the most. I used to be very active in r/stalker and r/teslore, r/trueSTL. There is nothing like that here that sees more than one post per month, and I'm not sure that I have the energy to commit to reviving it myself.
When you block someone, all the subsequent comments made to that person's comment are also unable to be viewed.
Too much focus on discussing the news and politics. And rarely is it an inspiring and new perspective. (Sometimes it is, though.)
I don't see how you would Escape that especially this week
this election is among the most important ones in the history of the country. if not the most. i am also looking forward to it just being fucking done with and having other things on the feed
Aside from being important for the US, it could easily impact relations with other countries.
They say this every time lol. Its all bullshit.
Its always about one of two things:
Instances going down forever. - kbin, even though its not lemmy, had a more appealing UI to me and my little brother. We're on fedia now, but I only really use it to lurk when Lemmy.world won't load randomly. I don't think he even uses it at all anymore.
De-federation. - Beehaw caused several other people I know IRL to go back to reddit within a week. The timing was so perfect to wreck the API boycott that I'm almost convinced the Beehaw mods work for reddit. "Everything was broken" and now lemmy is dead and gone forever in their eyes, some even assuming the whole thing is literally gone now. They're not willing to try again.
The politics is very left wing and very unwelcoming to any other viewpoint.
Mexican here, I've seen it multiple times, the current party in power in my country is everything Lemmy criticises of the Republicans, the CCP and Putin (hell, the expresident bowed down to Trump, Putin and Maduro) but since they claim to be the left and the current ~~puppet of the cult leader~~ president is a woman, most of Lemmy rushes to their defense every time someone criticises them because muh left.
Tankies gonna tankie
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