I’m curious to get everyone’s thoughts on opportunities to improve!
A filter for USA centric posts / community / instances
Better timelines. Currently there’s a lot of content buried which makes it really hard to create consistent cultures.
As in better sorting options?
To change the default for comment sorting, YES PLEASE.
I am having to click “Top” for every single post. It’s become a reflex but seriously this is crazy. It feels like I must be doing something wrong but I have looked everywhere for the setting and there isn’t one. I’ve assumed this is just an oversight that will soon be fixed, but it never is.
I just don’t get it.
Are you using a specific lemmy app? I imagine that many apps have this
Yes the front page sucks no matter what sorting option you use and it’s not because the posted content is shitty its just sucks in the way it presents it.
To be honest, I still don’t really know the difference between ‘hot’ and ‘active’
Wish those had more accurate descriptors.
It’s explained here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
Basically, Hot and Active show posts based on upvotes minus down votes, with a time decay so older posts rank lower.
Hot has the time decay based on created time, so you’ll basically only see posts from the last day or so.
Active has the time decay based on the most recent comment, so if someone comments it can bring an old post back to the top.
There is also Scaled (if your instance has updated to 0.19), which is like Hot but posts from communities with less active users will get a boost so you don’t miss out on posts in small communities from being drowned out by big community posts with lists of upvotes.
FREE PIZZA!
Put back the way votes were displayed before the last update. This new version is terrible and it makes the app less user friendly. At least give the option to change the setting
Lemmy has heaps of apps and a web interface. Which app are you using?
Turn off Downvote. Lemmy have some quirky user where they will lurk all the time and downvote content that doesn’t fit their own preference. Like, what are your purpose? If you don’t like seeing that language why not turn it off? Why not scroll past the topic you don’t like or don’t matter to you? It chase away a lot of people because they feels unwelcome.
These quirks is also the reason it’s hard to recommend lemmy to my acquaintance and friends.
Lemmy has this functionality, you just need to join a server that enabled it.
I’m an admin, i know there’s this function, and my instance is super small. What i’m saying is it affect the user of big instance more when it’s allowed and consequently Lemmy, since new user would likelier to sign up with these big instance than the smaller one(like mine).
Like for example, all post in !newcommunities@lemmy.world, a community that promote new community have downvote. Why? No one know. I remember the Bangladeshi’s community post got negative vote count when it’s posted, but only a bit later on the upvote start pouring in.
Personally wouldn’t want the downvote removed, it’s a good indicator for things like spam posts etc. Better to have those down voted than not to imo.
True. But I’d also like to see a reduction of seemingly general purpose down voting. There seem to be users who do nothing but down vote everything in sight.
The down ote button is a disagree button. You can complain all you want, but that’s what it is and will always be.
Yeah, i would also like it to remain there, but i feels like from my experience, i’ve seen it used very arbitrary/maliciously on innocent post than on spam post. And people just can’t refrain from downvoting language they don’t understand.
I like that after this was posted, all the comments in this thread got downvoted lol
It’s from the same person lol
I’m on kbin, so Ernest coming back sure would be a huge boost.
What is Ernest?
The Kbin dev.
I still think this is the biggest issue with lemmy right now. There should be a way for communities that are identical across instances that can connect where a post would be cross posted and connected with links to each instance it’s connected with.
I should be able to “hide read posts” and not have it apply to my own posts/comments in my profile.
Just general stability things. Images not loading. Comment counts appearing but not being able to load. No handling for blocked posts via direct link. No handling for hidden posts via direct link when hiding already-viewed posts. Not being able to see your own posts when hiding already-viewed posts. Upvoting or downvoting a post clears the in-progress comment box.
-
a culture of providing summaries for links
-
fewer videos and images
-
ability to crosspost comments or textposts from within the fediverse
-
reading lists beyond just subscribed (a la “multireddits”)
-
the ability to tag other users a la RES
-
user flair for munis
-
better mod controls (eg. make it easier to add or remove additional mods, automoderation, more streamlined reporting, federate moderation more effectively)
-
better control of a user’s own content (eg. being able to delete posts effectively)
-
ninja edits for tupos
Where are you seeing videos? Or are you talking about links to YouTube?
-
Fixing that bug where if you do something like upvote someone while typing a comment, your comment gets deleted.
Stop making “Undetermined” the default language for posts and comments, so my feed stops getting spammed by foreign language posts that didn’t bother to correctly tag themselves.
Allow blocking entire instances (I think this might be in the latest update which my instance hasn’t yet migrated to?).
Beyond that, the only thing I really miss from reddit is being able to open the comment thread for a post and read literally hundreds of comments. Gets a bit underwhelming seeing so many front-page posts with 1 or 2 comments.
I’d be ok with language tagging being mandatory.
Probably some central home page. That has a set of communities.
I think the most common complaint from new users is that it’s too complicated and “I can’t find anything”
If there was just a reddit front page esque thing going on I think the barrier to entry would be lower.
I use Kbin, so my experience is a little different, but do Lemmy instances not have default communities? If not, that seems like a pretty good addition, but if so, then I think that experience is going to be largely dictated by the individual instance you’re signing up with.
Instance owners ought to clean up all the unused communities that were created during the Reddit exodus by inactive users/mods only wanting to hoard the names. They’re basically redirecting traffic from actual communities and into a void.
I wonder how often it happens that some user has a hobby/interest, and go search for a community for this interest. They’ll find an empty community and leave without posting.
My theory is that if the dead communities didn’t exist, people who actually care about the topic would create their own active communities.
When you search for a community in lemmy, by default, the results are ordered by subscribers. If there is an active community on the topic, it will appear above any of the others, so the only way people are finding empty communities is if all of the communities are empty
More global presence. Too US centric to my likings.
Really?
I see so much more non-US content here than I ever did on Reddit.
Join some communities on instances from other countries.
