It might just be that my client doesn’t support them, but I miss the tags system Reddit had. Made it really easy to find posts of a certain type
Tags don’t exist. Sync allows you to add custom tags to users, but since that’s a client function with tags saved on their server, it’s only available in the paid ultra tier.
And even though I got that, I’ve come to realize that I mostly tagged shitposters that I ended up blocking later, so now I just block them sooner.
Also, a lot of mods seem to be inactive by now.
I miss constantly discovering new cat subs. Someone posted a picture of their cat and people would put related subs in the comments. And even the smallest and most specific subs would get regular posts.
I miss most communities not being overly political, I’ve blocked more users and communities than what I’ve subscribed to in lemmy. I don’t want to doom scroll through a political hive mind (which I’m not even aligned with) when I’m on my phone
The fact that someone already felt the need to downvote this after so few votes already confirms that problem. It’s politics in every damn community (fortunately mostly the comments, not the actual content).
This is a huge problem on Lemmy because there seem to be far more radical and opposing political opinions on here than on Reddit. You can only ever be a Nazi, or oppose capitalism and finance entirely.
I get that people may be bored of politics, this is legitimate. I disagree that it is a Lemmy’s problem though. Imho, decentralization and leaving Reddit are political decisions, opposing the up hand of big companies on social medias. So it seems to me that it is in the nature of Lemmy and Fediverse to be politically oriented. And even if you disagree that it is in their nature, maybe we can agree that it is logical that they tend to gather politically motivated peoples, as apolitical folks will probably stay on mainstream medias.
I don’t disagree with your message, but this isn’t about being politically motivated against a platform. Many people are, but most people on most platforms don’t purely occupy both extremes of the spectrum. It is not a problem with the platform, but with the users that make the platform divisive for those that wish to interact with it. This isn’t a problem with Reddit, and as someone that spent 15ish years posting on Reddit I can safely say I experienced less vitriol there than on Lemmy.
That may be partly due to there being less hate or divisiveness on niche subs, but the point remains that if people can’t be civil it acts as a negative for Lemmy as a userbase.
I miss the diversity of the content.
I got sick of all the trump, biden and now Harris posts. So I added filters to ignore them. I can scroll through “top twelve hours” in about 15 minutes.
It’s reducing my phone addiction which is good
Being European, this is very relatable. Everywhere I turn it’s all just US politics.
Yeah, it’s crazy. These elections are important, but here in Europe we don’t need the live stream of events from the US. Alas, even European media like Deutsche Welle or The Guardian are over saturated with US politics.
Call me crazy, but I feel like I’m in an even smaller echo chamber.
even_smaller_echo_chamber ^smaller_echo-chamber^ ^^chamber^^
Bugger, you can’t stack superscript like on Reddit. Another thing to miss!
True
I miss the small niche communities.
I don’t miss the larger communities.
I just got some sort of contact poison after reading this title, so I’ll go with: I don’t miss titles like this.
I miss the small, niche communities. I don’t mis anything else. Lemmy shows me things I’m interested in much more frequently, and I don’t feel like I’m on a massive corporation’s money-making system.
The helpful users that made Reddit the go-to for support. They haven’t come over yet.
I miss multireddits! Is that a thing on Lemmy?
Do not know if it is the same but doesn’t lemmy have an rss feed?
Hmm, it’s not the same, but I could sort RSS feeds for different communities into the same folder in my reader and that would do the trick. Thanks!
Miss: As a reader, writing subs like writingprompts, hfy, etc.
Don’t miss: Spez, csam
I miss the niche communities that I followed on reddit. There was a lot of sharing and discussion of knowledge there and I learned a lot about my hobbies. I feel more alone in my hobbies and interests now, I have no one to talk about them here.
On the general content side, I’m fine with Lemmy, there’s a lot less to scroll through and I spend a lot less time without feeling like I’m missing out, which is not a bad thing for me. I still can get my jokes, cats and memes in a smaller dose with a lot less reposting than reddit had. Another thing I like about lemmy is that I can interact with the more general content (like right now) without being the billionth comment that no one is going to read anyway
Funny posts
This is a lot more about posting the news than engaging in discussions with substance. I miss personal stories and lots of crazy hobby projects.
