A publicly available free API.
Developers can create any/multiple methods to interact with Lemmy (ActivityPub). And if I disliked all the methods existing developers created, I can create my own.
It is my choice how I interact.
(And for me Voyager is perfect.)
I like that lemmy is more international than reddit was/is, and so we get more viewpoints on different events.
I don't like how slack some community moderators are. There are too many communities that allow too wide a variety. I saw a post in mentalhealth.world that was a political complaint that didn't have any relevance to mental health, and the one commenter who tried to call that fact out got harassed by the OP.
I don't like how xenophobic a lot of users here are. I've seen a lot of users attack others over things individuals can't control. Hating citizens of XYZ nation rather than their politicians/leaders.
Not every Russian is evil. Not every American is evil. Not every British, Hungarian, Isreali, etc. Yes the people have the majority, but most regular citizens are just as scared of their government as anyone.
Yeah there's people that support their government to delusional degrees, but a lot of what I'm referring to is umbrella'd as, 'your leader is still in power so you must be a baddie.' It's not just on .ml either, it's on .zip, piefed, .world, all of them. I personally have been treated as a trump-loving ice-supporter or otherwise complicit, just for saying I'm American.
I'd love to see more niche content. I post to my city and country comms regularly, but there isn't a lot in either.
It'd also be nice to see a few more viewpoints. Generally we all agree with each other. Any disagreement tends to be nitpicky and minor, rather than conversation worthy.
You can always hop on lemmy.ml and talk about politics if you want to disagree with someone.
Agree on niche content, theres like barely anything for the fandoms that I'm in on here
I echo this sentiment. Reddit is just better for niche stuff.
It’d also be nice to see a few more viewpoints.
Unfortunately, hasty defederation has made this impossible. It's too easy for people in a community to ask for defederation instead of confronting other people's viewpoints. Not to mention that when very contentious topics are brought up and there are whole communities full of people who dedicate a lot of time to reading about and thinking about those topics, it can create a poor situation where that community suddenly starts an outburst of too many disagreeing viewpoints. Compound that with the extremely fractured state of information and media where people live in completely different realities. It gets to be too much, and it's exceedingly difficult to have a civil conversation when the gulf between 2 communities is so large.
Wanna name some examples? Because right now, it just sounds like a tankie bemoaning people not wanting the toxic waste that is your ideology flooding into their instances – through .ml but especially through the noxious cesspit of insufferable losers that is Hexbear.
Edit: And I'd add that defederation is barely a part of this. The main problem is simply that Lemmy doesn't have a lot of users, and so niche posts tend to receive minimal attention and effectively no discussion. I moderate a few niche-ish (but not that niche) communities on Lemmy.World (federated with .ml), and decent-enough posts I make there get effectively nothing.
While there are more significant causes, one such cause is that sane people don't want a social media where at every other step is a tankie shitting their pants about how North Korea is based as hell and how dare you impugn Kim Jong Un's name. I live with the tankies because I'd sooner quit social media than use Reddit again, but I never said I was sane. (Plenty also wouldn't like all the ancom shit, but I'm close-ish ideologically, and I at least recognize they're good people with good intentions and not just blatant, cowardly liars.)
Yeah you're exactly right, as I said we live in completely different and irreconcilable realities. The fact of the matter is, given the option between sitting down with people like myself (Hexbear user) who have extremely different views, or just hitting the button that makes us all go away, the vast majority of people will just hit the button. It's not really even a liberal thing, people behave that way regardless of ideology (although I think there's something particular about how atomized and depersonalizing the current state of social media is that makes that kind of behavior more common).
But you see my point — you're perfectly within your rights to think that everyone who's a socialist/Marxist/whatever has gone too far or whatever, and not wish to interact with them. Replicate similar preferences across a whole community, though, and it ends up isolating them and creating the situation that the root comment of this thread is lamenting. We're just little echo chambers siloed off from each other because the cognitive dissonance of experiencing each other's versions of reality is too much.
too many people scattered after the last big instance shut down. not enough from reddit will jump over. used to have more varied topics.
Despite being orders of magnitude smaller platform compared to reddit, my posts are getting way more traction instead of getting immediately buried. I feel like the slower pace rewards quality over timing/luck. Generally, when I make a post about something it's a topic I like to discuss so it's nice to get some engagement.
I think reddit is great if theres already a thread about whatever you are looking for or wanting to find out. But creating a new one and trying to get replies is pretty hopeless these days, its just gets buried, like you said.
Here you actually get replies, maybe not hundreds, but enough to get things going.
Some way to not see the same thing posted 5-10 times over.
Yeah. Am using Connect on my phone, which shows "comments to the same link" all in one view. That's not quite right; would be better if it showed all of the posts that had the same link together too, but it's a massive improvement.
Not suggesting we should have Fark-style 'only one post per link', because that ended up having some, eh, niche blog takes on news articles, since you couldn't post mainstream articles. But accumulating posts with the same link or same post together would be great.
It's very hard to get longer conversations going. It's hard to interact more than briefly on a subject.
Guess that's more on the protocol itself though.
I don't think it is about the protocol, more on the nature of ephemeral interactions with strangers over the internet.
That's part of it of course, but even if you want to discuss it's complicated (long threads don't work well on mobile, new people won't see your old discussion).
What i like:
what i think could be improved:
what i think would be very cool:
It's small enough that I regularly interact with users I recognize and know a fair bit about but big enough that there are plenty of strangers. I like the radicalism too obviously. Best part is still the lack of ads though, can't beat that.
I wish there was more silly haha content. Politics and news are great and all but I don't want that to be all lemmy is. I do a little by posting funny hahas here and there. I don't have any solutions to offer unfortunately.
Not funny haha but I follow cute foxes and that brightens up my feed
I think the biggest flaw lemmy has is the upvote/downvote system, same as on reddit. The arrows are used as an agree/disagree indicator, which buries unpopular opinions and rewards popular "low-risk" ones, thus creating the same echo-chambers we're all so tired of.
Some instances disable downvotes for this reason (so when using a client only upvotes are used).
You can also use the scaled filter to see more niche things that may have been buried otherwise.
for me Im certain comments just flow from most recent down. I like it this way
The echo chamber and reposts of the same shit ad nauseum. Getting called a Nazi and picking up bans for luke warm takes not agreeing with full on communism and not treating conservatives as one big maga group.
The loud nerds make this place unbearable if not for the fact that Reddit is worse garbage.
Ability to display context in a message thread would be helpful with interactions.
A1: Less bots, mods aren't malevolent, no Karma points just a simple up/down.
A2: Federation isn't easy for newbs to understand, communities are often too quiet, I still have to visit Reddit as any tech-related questions I have actually have answers there and there's SEO so it's found. I did also enjoy reddit "badges" for some reason. If your instance gets defederated, or goes down, you lose everything on it. Bots that are here are Reddit scrapers rather than new Lemmy content
if your instance gets defederated, or goes down, you lose everything on it
well not really, like you can still find plenty of stuff from lemm.ee on other fediverse instances. it's mostly only text as the media's not copied usually though
less Ai slop, reddit is full of it right now, especially the ones that generate a post.
I like that I can just block users or communities that I'm not interested in, and just browse all the rest. The amount of cross posting could be better, it's not uncommon to see the same post five times in a row.
I want to see some moderated semi-official communities. Like /c/all.
/all needs some filtering. I sometimes reply post on there that host very niche interests and get called out for not being a nazi midget bestiality porn lover or whatever the community sidebar rules dictate you need to be in order to participate.
I mean, if the community is closed to everyone, dont have it appear on /all.
i want some way to have multiple feeds, after subscribing to some comms that has way too many posts I can rarely see anything from the others.
Piefed does this
nice, maybe i should switch. thanks for telling!
I wish that Lemmy's Markdown variant didn't convert "(c)" to "(c)" ("©" if it doesn't show up on PieFed or some other piece of software).
I not-infrequently want to make lists where I am using "(a)", "(b)" and "(c)". It's also frequently used in US laws, which I will sometimes copy-paste. I never, ever see people needing to use the copyright symbol. If someone wants to write "copyright", they can write it out or go to the trouble of using Unicode on their client.
I do like the fact that Lemmy's Markdown dropped Reddit's auto-renumbering of numbered lists, which I think was a huge mistake for Reddit to do. Neat idea, but in practice, people would copy-paste items out of numbered lists elsewhere and want to retain the actual item and then Reddit would go renumber it.
EDIT: I checked. Apparently it doesn't show up on PieFed, which makes me like it even less, since that means that Lemmy and PieFed (and maybe Mbin) users don't get the same view of "(c)".
Can confirm that I see "(c)" on Mbin.
Edit: To explain, I think that's because Mbin uses the source field of the federated post, which contains the comment as you've written it, not as Lemmy renders it. Mbin then parses and transforms it to HTML by its own rules, not Lemmy's. So the (c) doesn't get transformed, because Mbin doesn't do that.
I assume it's the same logic for Piefed.
seems to show without conversion on both mlmym and voyager, so i guess it really is a lemmy issue.. maybe worth raising as a feature request
If our official governments can be complete cunts, than we can be complete cunts.
They proved to us we don't need integrity.
/S kind of.
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