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[–] sederx@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Lemmy was nice at first but the communities now are really unfriendly, there is 0 motivation to create content

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[–] jedi@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

i don't care. I came here because i'm so sick of reddit.

[–] greenmarty@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I moved to Lemmy over from reddit not because of content or better UI but because people behind reddit seems like jerks to me and i came to realization I'd rather use open source.
What i lack here is information e.g. programming communities in Lemmy are, well, dead. If left on Lemmy things that are "recommended" to me it's sensational "news" that are aimed to spark woke vs others battle in discussion.

So what to make better ?

  • to build what reddit has, I'd call it a content library and i don't care if it's done by bots or humans. For me the facts + discussion to ask question is super important.
  • if searching for a topic outside of Lemmy> Lemmy doesn't show up in search engine but reddit does. Some optimization needs to be done to get better score at search engines.
  • let users to block instances and thus make de-federation to user's decision.
  • i think there needs to some kind of cross instance community, i don't think having same kind of community in multiple instances with different content is good solution.
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[–] TIN@feddit.uk 10 points 2 years ago

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[–] Mcballs1234@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its alright, we all have lives we live and sometimes don't have time for Lemmy.

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[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’ll throw in a few reasons

-Learning curve is huge compared to other social media

-As soon as an instance gets a large audience hosting costs skyrocket and moderation ability plummets

-The same instance can exist on multiple servers causing the demographic to be split

-Pr0n instances have to take the colossal risk of hosting malicious material that can send them to jail because the data is hosted on their own server

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[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The people who don't want to stick with Lemmy are the people we don't want on Lemmy.

I see this as a win.

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (20 children)

It's because when you go to /c/books , the default view is not every /c/books on every server. But one /c/books on one server. Therefore Lemmy is doomed and the dev refuse by principle to fix it.

[–] IzyaKatzmann@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

what do you mean refuse by principle to fix it? the solution that comes to mind is for a whitelist that is implemented either in federation broadly or lemmy specifically for certain categories (think TLDs) which are agreed to have a certain focus, like on literature or video games or music, where the instances themselves can join or link to.

kinda bypass a community being held hostage (or kept isolated) by an instance, the whitelists can be determined through a simple majority (first past the post) or any other method by members of communities rather than instance moderators/admins.

i get that many folks don't like hexbear and i have nothing against them, i certainly don't want to force them to see content they don't want; giving granular control over specific content (not just a blacklist like per-user instance blocking) seems ideal.

what do you think?

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[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (19 children)

as a realist, allowing porn would do wonders ngl

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago

Most people have never heard of Lemmy or the Fediverse and were not invested one iota in the API Fiasco because they don't know what API stands for and they normally use the official mobile app.

So the Fediverse has an uphill battle. For the vast majority of Reddit users, Reddit still does everything they need it to and there's no great call to migrate over. People that are only peripherally aware of the Fediverse may also think it has something to do with blockchain technology. The technological savviness divide grows larger by the minute.

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