Let’s compose a list of the all shortcomings so that we can address them and eventually hit 100k mau.

  • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    Too many terrorist simps, too much mod abuse, too much disinformation, too many Tankies, discovery of communities is hard with how federation works and kinda requires third party apps.

    • Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org
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      2 months ago

      I believe it’s just obnoxious trolling users who’ve been banned multiple times from Reddit now come flooding here to pull their shit again.

  • ddplf@szmer.info
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    2 months ago

    Generally mods of the communities still suck to an absolute extent, not as bad as reddit but still nowhere near acceptable.

    I hate not being informed of bans, and I think they are all permanent.

    • Hubi@feddit.org
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      2 months ago

      They not all permanent, Lemmy displays the duration in the mod log. I agree that there should be some kind of notification though.

  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    Many instances have domain names that look invalid and/or like scam sites to non-techies. Dot world? Dot social? Dot [obscure country TLD]? There’s also no guarantees that the domain will indicate that it’s a Lemmy site. Both of these become problematic with sharing, as the default (? been a while since I’ve used the web interface) share function links to the poster’s instance and not the community instance. A year and a half ago, the shared links section in my messenger was mostly a Reddit flood. Today, it looks like someone spilled alphabet soup.

  • Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You can set your languages in the settings. As the warning say, make sure to keep “Undetermined” check along English

    • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      I have to block the subcommunities one by one, and then block them again and again for every other instance that hosts that sublemmy

  • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    When they post asking for help with Windows and get an entire thread of answers from obnoxious elitist wankers who couldn’t even decide on a distro between them

  • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    When you block someone, all the subsequent comments made to that person’s comment are also unable to be viewed.

  • Cagi@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Nothing is deleted, just slightly obscured, and some apps don’t even do that. Child porn, illegal revenge porn, hate speech, everything is stored forever.

  • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The fact that many on the internet haven’t gotten past the largest hurdle, creating a Lemmy account.

    We’re currently at 462k created accounts.

    • Paradachshund@lemmy.today
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      2 months ago

      I said this a while ago on another thread, but if I was a Dev on the project I would be working to create a website that automatically signs you up for an instance. The high level concept is instances would opt into this pool, the user would simply put in their username like any regular website, and then the system would create them an account on whichever instance was best for them (maybe based on ping/trying to spread population around).

      This would majorly reduce the barrier to entry in my opinion, because a lot of people just want to browse, and don’t care about the federation aspect at all.

      • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Which instances would you put into this pool besides lemm.ee and lemmy.zip?

        • lemmy.world is too large
        • sh.itjust.works is a non neutral name (most people probably won’t mind, but some others might be deterred)
        • beehaw.org is behind and deferated
        • lemmy.dbzer0.com andn discuss.tchncs.de have a name that can be hard to remember
        • programming.dev is topic-oriented
        • lemmy.ca, feddit.nl, feddit.org and sopuli.xyz are country/language-oriented
        • lemmy.blahaj.zone is queer-oriented, not sure they want people who don’t support queer people to join
        • other instances are probably not busy enough to have all the communities subscribed

        https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/ filtered by MAU

        • jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          I guess another problem is, larger instances are more likely to be reliably up, if you randomly signed people up to a smaller instance running in someone’s bedroom thant they switch off at night then that user’s experience is going to be terrible, but if you combat this by only having large instances in that pool then the large instances get larger and smaller instances will essentially freeze at their current size because the main way of signing up would become this portal that assigns you to instances rather than specifically joining an instance. It might encourage the fediverse to become considerably less federated and a lot more centralised.

    • RagnarokOnline@programming.dev
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      2 months ago

      This one is my biggest challenge too… I wish there was, like, a “trial” instance that folks were automatically signed up for and then after 30 days they had to switch and find another instance.

      Once you’re in the door it’s lovely, but that first barrier to entry scares people off.

  • rovingnothing29@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Its always about one of two things:

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    • glimse@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Nah, I have a different gripe:

      When the reddit exodus happened, Lemmy was flooded with copycat communities for every popular subreddit. That’s fine with me. But what’s not fine is that very few of these communities use the same posting rules (if any at all) so they’re homogenized. Like what is the difference between nostupidquestions and asklemmy?

      I have another one that’s not specific to Lemmy but absolutely applies: meme “communities” where it’s all reposted content. I used community in quotes because these communities/subreddits/Instagram accounts are just…meme archives. You’ll find the same shit in every single meme archive on the internet. It feels like it’s less about sharing and more about having the biggest bucket.

      • rovingnothing29@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Reddit means pointless or stupid repetition (I forget which). I guess that whole homogenized thing is baked in if they were to migrate.

        • glimse@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          As much as I hate what reddit has become, it was a LOT less of a problem over there. And despite its reputation for having power tripping mods, the communities with strictest rules were almost always the best ones

          A well-moderated community is a good community online. Self policing doesn’t work when it’s thousands of strangers

      • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Like what is the difference between nostupidquestions and asklemmy?

        On Reddit at least, NSQ was supposed to have a “well, that might seem a stupid question” gist to it. But I agree that nowadays on Lemmy they are the same.

  • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • LouNeko@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.