The lack of users and activity. Not so bad in tech-oriented areas but many niche places or places for “normal” people are barren.
The homogeneity of the people here. People are generally speaking medium to heavily left-leaning, tech-oriented males of western Europe/US. I identify with that group too, but I wish there was more diversity and less “echo-chamber”-ish content. There is a lot of content that humiliates, jokes about or bashes the worst side of the right wing or laments non-techy people and that kind of thing. It gets a little tiring and I’m afraid it only serves to push that other demographic further away from the fediverse, while we should encourage everyone to use decentralized social media. I don’t think it’s great if the fediverse just becomes “social media but only for left-leaning tech people”.
I’ve found any discourse here is almost immediately met with deletions and bans. It’s just Reddit with harder-left slants, and even more trigger happy mods. The difference for me being that I get controls to block all of the communities that I don’t want to listen to. Unlike Reddit where you don’t really have the filtering options - Lemmy gives you the ability to block instances, communities, and users without some really artificially low cap like Reddit has.
I think the only thing that irks me, is that there’s a new lemmynsfw community every 30 seconds with someone posting some crazy outrageous kink and the web interface doesn’t let you block the community directly from the post on /all
There’s no distinction in NSFW topics either - whereas there should be NSFW (Porn) and NSFW (Gore), etc.
any discourse here is almost immediately met with deletions and bans … trigger happy mods
This really depends what instance you go to and what their standards of moderation are. If you’re not happy with your current instance admins / community moderators, then go to another instance or another community (or petition your current mods/admins to improve the situation).
I get controls to block all of the communities that I don’t want to listen to … Lemmy gives you the ability to block instances
Yes, mostly. Keep in mind that blocking communities and instances only affects which posts you see in their feed - the members of those communities and instances still get to vote on the other stuff that is in your feed and affect the post ranking in that way. The only way to avoid that is defederation.
new lemmynsfw community every 30 seconds
Wouldn’t an instance-level block fix this?
no distinction in NSFW topics either - whereas there should be NSFW (Porn) and NSF[L] (Gore), etc.
Tbf this is no different than Reddit and there’s a lack of support in the underlying protocol - it’s not entirely clear how this should be more generally implemented either. You probably want a more generalized tagging system, not just one additional category on top of NSFW.
Generally there’s only 2 big problems for me:
Still better than Reddit or Facebook 🤷
^this. I miss being able to talk to or ask questions of very niche groups.
A lot of stuff can feel pretty circlejerky.
I’ll add that I’ve tried ~8 different apps to access the whole thing and they all have some weird problems.
From your experience, which would you recommend and what’s been your best experience/approach to it?
I’ve found any discourse here is almost immediately met with deletions and bans. It’s just Reddit with harder-left slants, and even more trigger happy mods. The difference for me being that I get controls to block all of the communities that I don’t want to listen to. Unlike Reddit where you don’t really have the filtering options - Lemmy gives you the ability to block instances, communities, and users without some really artificially low cap like Reddit has.
I think the only thing that irks me, is that there’s a new lemmynsfw community every 30 seconds with someone posting some crazy outrageous kink and the web interface doesn’t let you block the community directly from the post on /all
There’s no distinction in NSFW topics either - whereas there should be NSFW (Porn) and NSFW (Gore), etc.
This really depends what instance you go to and what their standards of moderation are. If you’re not happy with your current instance admins / community moderators, then go to another instance or another community (or petition your current mods/admins to improve the situation).
Yes, mostly. Keep in mind that blocking communities and instances only affects which posts you see in their feed - the members of those communities and instances still get to vote on the other stuff that is in your feed and affect the post ranking in that way. The only way to avoid that is defederation.
Wouldn’t an instance-level block fix this?
Tbf this is no different than Reddit and there’s a lack of support in the underlying protocol - it’s not entirely clear how this should be more generally implemented either. You probably want a more generalized tagging system, not just one additional category on top of NSFW.
Who says I want to block everything from there? There’s no way to whitelist.
Right - perhaps an alternative user for your “scientific research” is an appropriate measure in that case? :P just a suggestion