What do you think is the biggest issue with Lemmy?
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Communities are so easy to make on Reddit, I’ve looked into making one on Lemmy but I have no idea how to do it, it’s so much less accessible
wrote on last edited by [email protected]It's easier to make a community here than on reddit, not to mention here its easier to moderate.
I think this page might help, but remember some instances might restrict community creation, meaning that you have to speak with admin.
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Not enough people for even slightly niche communities. Wanna talk about smash brothers ? 732 people, only 2 posts in the last month.
This is why people still use reddit on the side.
Why not create a community? We even have a community to promote communities https://lemmy.ca/c/communitypromo and we have couple others too.
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This is how I see it too. Freedom from the toxic ad-supported business model is a slow-burning superpower.
Until the people hosting the servers need money to run them, usually the problem when these kinds of idealistic websites grow
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Communities: People complaining about niche communities, yet they don't make or promote them. Create a community, promote it, share it with other users, share content.
Politics: I came here to discuss about everything, but I only see new and dead communities, being overtaken and post daily politics.
This is what I have blocked so far, yet more communities are being made, and one article goes on and on and on and on......
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The people that get their fee fees hurt from seeing opinions they disagree with, cf all the whinging abt tankies in the comments.
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I know that Reddit doesn't outright ban Lemmy talk, but on my reddit profile, I updated it with my Lemmy username link. I got banned from reddit a couple of hours later. No reason given. And I hadn't made any recent posts. Ban reason was "violating rules." lol
I had accounts banned for no reason after recommending lemmy to people, or makikg a username with lemmy in it.
Pretty sure they have a filter setup that automatically bans you.
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Repeated content. When I doomscroll I see the same posts I've already seen instead of less popular ones.
Make sure to sort your all feed by hot instead of active.
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the population is 99% children. Dumb, reactionary etc.
some of them are moderators
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It's easier to make a community here than on reddit, not to mention here its easier to moderate.
I think this page might help, but remember some instances might restrict community creation, meaning that you have to speak with admin.
https://support.lemmy.world/quickstart/#creating-communitieswrote on last edited by [email protected]that is true, because reddit currently makes it very hard to even moderate a sub reddit, they ban new ones very easily, if not immediately. the only problem is lemmy doesnt have the traffic that reddit has for a specific niche.
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User volume and diversity is probably the main thing right now.
We just need more people posing shit, the fact that one or two users can dominate my feed if they choose to is not ideal. (Though often I appreciate the content anyway)
The diversity aspect is around how we have a lot of people in a small handful of demographics on here. It's getting better every day, but the thing that made Reddit great before they ruined it was everything you could think of had a community of people posing stuff about it, doesn't matter how niche.
One leads to the other though, more users naturally will mean increasingly diverse interests in our userbase.
It's about time Reddit fucked something else up anyway, it's been a few months
wrote on last edited by [email protected]We just need more people posing shit, the fact that one or two users can dominate my feed if they choose to is not ideal.
That's because so many on Lemmy would rather downvote than post anything.
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Since karma isn’t tracked, I don’t think it’s a real big deal having a negative score comment. But since there are people who care anyways I think the downvote does exist, it can suppress people posting certain points of view lest you anger the tankie triad
Since karma isn’t tracked,
Some third party apps do track Lemmy downvotes though. And I've seen plenty of obnoxious posters bring up someones "downvote count" in conversation--just so they can try to win their argument.
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I had accounts banned for no reason after recommending lemmy to people, or makikg a username with lemmy in it.
Pretty sure they have a filter setup that automatically bans you.
It was probably because of ignorant, sexist posts.
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little bit like ghost towns
Welcome to my world! I try to post sports I watch on [email protected] as much possible as I can. Same goes for [email protected] and for [email protected]. Lately is more politics and memes.
Pleasantly surprised to see a football community that is actually about the game where you kick a ball with your foot.
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not enough of my niche interests from reddit moved here. also the sports communities are a little bit like ghost towns
Yeah same, the only solution is for you yourself to post in those niche communities more often, making them more active and thus more attractive for other users.
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You don’t have to subscribe to political communities if you don’t want to see political discussion.
True but it seems like the majority of Lemmys like attaching anything and everything to something political. I saw some post about a squirrel or something, just chiling in the heat. Supposed to be cute. Immediately devolved into how fat the squirrel looked and how it must be a MAGA squirrel. Then the conversation just devolved into "cheeto man"(stupidist overused Lemmy term ever!) jokes over and over.
Also, Lemmy: why the fuck do you all think saying "cheeto man" is so hilarious? It's something that 2nd graders would snicker at. Once. And you all say it over and over. WTF?! No wonder you all can't get girlfriends.
Yeah this is something that has got way worse over time. It used to be that most forums would default to "no politics" and then there were discussion areas set aside for that. And now if you criticise someone for bringing politics into something where it doesn't belong, you will get angry responses declaring that you're burying your head in the sand. No, I just don't want lowest-hanging-fruit political comments on every cat picture.
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Make sure to sort your all feed by hot instead of active.
I'll try that, thanks!
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Block the person or the community.
I had this problem with US politics, same most multiple times, blocking communities did work for me.I do want to see the content and community, just once though. I don't even mean the same story being posted multiple times, but I think I see the exact same post multiple times.
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Oh yeah the community is 1000% better and healthier, I don't miss Reddit at all. Plus I'm a child of the 70s, I grew up with limited content. It's good for you.
Every time my kids say they’re bored I tell them that being bored is a useful skill.
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Communities: People complaining about niche communities, yet they don't make or promote them. Create a community, promote it, share it with other users, share content.
Politics: I came here to discuss about everything, but I only see new and dead communities, being overtaken and post daily politics.
This is what I have blocked so far, yet more communities are being made, and one article goes on and on and on and on......
https://piefed.ca/ has keyword filters. Those are pretty good to filter some of the political stuff.
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The right wing instances are just defederated from this larger federated group because the people on them were unable to follow the rules of other instances. Repeatedly, they would throw tantrums and create loads of dupe accounts to spam shit when people downvoted their shitty views or their accounts got banned. If they were capable of behaving with civility and following the rules, they'd still be here.
No idea how active that corner of the Lemmyverse is these days, but they have repeatedly chosen to behave in a way that leaves instance administrators with little choice other than defederation.
That’s what happened. It’s not the solution.
