Honestly sheer numbers.
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
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Multireddits.
This, by a mile.
Especially considering the nature of lemmy means you end up with a lot of duplicate communities.
This is also my biggest missing feature.
I remember reading a Github issue about it and iirc it is a bit challenging to get it to work with federation.
Videos. Viewing your up/downvotes. Profile posts.
Not a feature of Reddit, but I also miss RES features: user tagging, seeing my votes on a user next to their name, advanced post filtering, and more.
User and post flairs
This thread is making me love lemmy so much more.
This. We could get rid of so many posts whining about political memes, and posts whining about the whining.
Just tag the meme as “political” and let us filter it or not.
Lengthy analytical comment debates in every trending thread. I'm not saying it's absent, of course, but there is a distinct lack of detailed high-level discourse.
To be fair, the same has plummeted on Reddit in recent years, but that's the major drawcard that Lemmy will take years itself to emulate.
Your experience may have been different than mine, but I found that I've had more thoughtful, lengthy discussion on Lemmy than in the final few months on Reddit.
Sure, the topics I viewed were more broad over there, but discussion on popular threads just get lost in 1000 comments and even trying to spark discussion with people in New got me fewer bites than here. That and the antagonstic form of debate were turnoffs for me (sadly, a bit of that did also migrate to Lemmy).
Users here actually sort of listen to each other. Non-bot OPs will often reply to you. People will understand what you're saying even if you have a typo, without having to dedicate the entire comment about it.
Yes there are plenty of trolls here too, but overall my experience has been more pleasant than my 6 years on Reddit. Feel free to tell me about your experience, I'm not here just to disagree with you.
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Better moderation tools. A lot of these features are nice to have, but there is no way Lemmy can grow without better moderation tools.
Even with the tiny userbase, we're having problems with spam and rule breaking content. Add more users and it's going to be a mess.
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More granular moderation tools.
But in the last dev AMA they made it clear that wasn't a priority. Honestly it killed a large chunk of excitement I had about Lemmy. Without ways for mods to keep the communities free of shit heads the communities won't be sustainable and will stop growing.
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Wiki pages for communities. It’s a great way to collect useful information that would otherwise get lost in different posts
Album posts. I'd like to share related pics in one post. Not sure how to do this if it's already there.
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Finding "subLemmy's". I just browse the main page and block the sublemmys i dont like.
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Videos hosting or someway to more seamlessly share video content. The Reddit player sucked fat donkey dicks, but the idea of viewing video in a post instead of clicking out to some rando site is much preferred.
doesn't the app embed the video anyway? at least for the more common ones
Since Lemmy is just a small federated alternative to Reddit, not that many people are gonna know about it. As a consequence, not that many communities that were on Reddit are as big on Lemmy, if they even exist at all.
It's actually better because now I can cut down on social media usage and spend my time on actually productive things, like watching paint dry.
Open in a new window/tab.
Middle mouse click
Sadly the Devs are pretty keen on not adding that feature.
Honestly, I read shit like this and wonder why some people are so married to failure. It's like asking how to do something in Windows, and being told to switch to Linux.
Please just add an option to open everything in a new tab. "Well," I hear you say, "you can just use the middle mouse button." You're right, I can. But that doesn't switch to the new tab, so that's another click added to the process.
Because it's an anti-feature that goes against standards and accessibility. Hold control or middle mouse click if you want the content in a new tab.
This is why some software succeeds and others don’t. Middle mouse click or using two hands is not accessibility. Having an option to toggle this behaviour is
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More users would be nice, but ~~Rome~~ reddit wasn't built in a day either, so I'm hopeful that we'll get there eventually.
As for actual features, I'm missing the ability to upload videos directly to the site, but I can totally understand why it isn't a feature as it would eat up a lot more resources than just text and pictures.
Yeah I wonder what would be a good design compromise in showing users videos while not actually hosting them on the website.
None that matter. Lemmy doesn't have flair or awards or live chat or NFT avatars or any of that bullshit. And that's not a bad thing.
Post and user flairs would be nice, it's helpful in certain community types.
The rest though, I'm fine without
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Lemmy is basically reddit in 2010, which is awesome
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A way to easily find and join subs, from my phone/in the app, so I can have my own feed. I’m not willing to set my stuff up on my computer. I’ve worked in IT for over twenty years and I hate doing anything on my computer anymore and can’t get myself to even try. It’s a me problem but it didn’t exist with Reddit. From Apollo I could find, subscribe, leave subs and have my own custom feed. I’d still use Reddit instead if they didn’t kill third party apps. But they did, so I try to make this work but it’s sucks trying to see content so I just don’t spend much time here either, which is fine, I’ve taken to doing crosswords instead when I’m looking to pass some time.
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Flairs and polls
A nice thing about lemmy is when we get polls they wouldn’t force you to load a webpage just to use them in third party apps.
A central place where everything happens. Or just the illusion of that.
Lemmy does not feel the same between instances/servers, and that makes everything seem smaller.
The only reason there was a small spike in lemmy users was because the competition entered phase 3 of their enshittening. Just like Mastadon lives off twitter going downhill. It’s not that the product is great, it’s just that it mimics a successful service and that service is going to shit.
That's why I browse "Everything" instead of restricting myself to an instance. I then block communities that I'm not interested in, and also make use of keyword filters in Sync to block unwanted stuff.
note that "everything" doesn't mean everything. It will show you all posts your local instance pulled in via federation (e.g. when someone else on your instance subscribed to it). Depending on how active the instance is you are on, it will have very different results
On Liftoff, everything means everything. It specifically pulls from every instance you put into the instance list at once. Granted, you have to manually add all the instances to the list right now. But that's easily done.
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Currently? Pictures.
Hasn't it been revealed that the devs are tankies who straight up refuse to implement features that they feel would undermine the cause?
For example, they have a hard coded Blocklist. There have been tickets to change this to instance implemented. Every time this comes up, the devs claim that this has already been implemented and lock discussion. However if you actually look at the commit sha the hard coded Blocklist is still in place.
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One thing I could use is a good desktop web frontend. On desktop I’d much rather browse Reddit(old+res) than any of the clients I have found. All of the clients are missing usable keyboard navigation, or the interface is too clunky for my monitor.
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I know some unofficial apps already have it but I like the idea of karma. Like nothing crazy with algorithms but just the summary of all the down/updoots on profiles
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