The thing that concerns me the most about federated content, is that a malicious actor could post something horrible/illegal (CSAM as the obvious example) and that gets replicated across the instances. Now those instances are "hosting" the content and could be held liable for it. A major corporation can pay lawyers to say the content was user posted and they are not responsible (happens all the time) but your average Lemmy admin does not have the same resources to defend themselves.

Not enough artists posting their weird shit. Analogue Nowhere rules but i need more

The lack of people. We need more people on the Fediverse.

North Korea shill. Seriously. How absolutely dumbfuck do you have to be to actually believe there is even the slightest good in that regime? It hurts me personally that I'm Korean and that I've seen countless people, some I've met in person, who lost their families in that hellhole. And yet people who can't even spell Kim Jong Un or Juche are celebrating that prison of a kingdom.

Nothing about them are "left" or "progressive". To me, they're worse than MAGA shitheads.

Absolutely disgusting. Hope they all rot in North Korea.

The instances wars.

Lemmy doesn't have this problem, but mastodon needs algorithms. Otherwise, discovery is more difficult and you must be around at the same time people of interest are either there or being boosted. People leave thinking it's boring.

small user base.
while i can deal with it,it kinda sucks the userbase is small.

4 times the same post in 4 different identically named communities...
I want a global feed, communities can federate with in a sort of sub-lemmy.

There is a lot of computing and a lot of politics, but not very much else.

The extremist idiots. Entire lemmy.ml is incredibly disgusting bunch of losers.

I don't like that it's basically Reddit. people from Reddit came here and they act like it's Reddit and it's basically Reddit

The total lack of concern for easy on boarding of newbies. There's a lot of big talk about taking on social media monopolies but absolutely no interest in coordinating to actually accomplish that goal.

Tankies

not enough users and content

No particular complaints regarding the people or topics, but I wish we could do more than just up or downvote a post. In other online communities you can 🤣, or ❤️, or even 🤡 a post and that makes the experience much more enjoyable IMO, lol.

I have a question: for those of us who aren't tech-savvy, is there a way to get away from the Material Design UI? As a designer, I absolutely hate it! I tried playing around with the settings but it still looks too Google-ish for me. I find it boring, rigid, and oldfashioned. When I open the app, I don't feel 'excited' to browse through the app. I want to feel compelled into clicking a button, upvoting/downvoting, sending a reply comment, and so on. I think if the UI was made to look more fun, it would attract a lot more users. Part of the experience of an app is the appearance and interactivity.

People complaining about not enough variety when they don't post in those niche communities they talk about

The topics aren't as varied here, reddit pretty much has a subreddit for any niche community you can imagine.

I like the community more here though. People are generally supportive and there seem to be fewer unrestrained jerks.

I am forced to see posts in communities I am banned from for having an anti-ai stance AKA a working brain. I didn't block all of them soon enough.

What I am saying is that you should still be able to block communities you are banned from. Seeing them in my feed and being unable to get rid of them is like seeing cockroaches in a kitchen.