Honestly sheer numbers.
Users.
I’m ok with that. I went back on reddit after hanging out here for a while. There’s a lot more content of course, but the comment sections were largely trash. A lot of dumb jokes and circlejerks and way too many people to actually converse with anyone.
It also seemed to me that a growing number of comments in recent years there on product-relates posts (e.g., what’s the best language learning app?) reeked of companies promoting their own products rather (e.g., someone’s post history was selectively related to promoting some app after a period of inactivity). I haven’t seen things like that here at all, which is nice.
There’s dozens of us! Dozens!
Multireddits.
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.
Summit gives the ability to do multi-communities.
Users
I love lemmy, don’t get me wrong, but I do miss the niche and specific game and music communities on there. Lemmy is mostly politics and memes at this point. All the more specific communities are very small.
We need some of them karma farming bots that make 80% of the posts over there.
User and post flairs
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.
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.
Album posts. I’d like to share related pics in one post. Not sure how to do this if it’s already there.
Wiki pages for communities. It’s a great way to collect useful information that would otherwise get lost in different posts
after you sign up to reddit, it will ask you to pick a few things you like from a tag cloud. it will then try and show you more of that.
also, reddit apps that were able to block/filter subs, were able to really remove that from feeds. in lemmy, that only seems to work per instance. fir example, if someone wants to see all posts, except from memes, they’d have to block memes@xyz.net, memes@yomomasinstance.org, etc… There will probably be a new instance every day and they will therefore never be able to actually block “memes”
after you sign up to reddit, it will ask you to pick a few things you like from a tag cloud. it will then try and show you more of that.
I hated that. I used to burn reddit accounts after about 2 months snd every time that part sucked because the only options were like “fashion,” “basketball,” “Game of Thrones,” and other big stuff. If it let me search for the specific subs I knew I wanted, it would be been fine. But no, it had me select random interests. Algotithm-generated content suggestions are the death of the true internet.
i think, you could also skip it. i don’t really remember. i remember vaguely, you already had a working account when this came up
You could skip it but everytime you loaded the app or tried to switch to the home page, it would give the same prompt.
Open in a new window/tab.
Sadly the Devs are pretty keen on not adding that feature.
I might be alone in this, but everyone always talks shit about recommendations or “the algorithm” on a lot of platforms. It’s really important though. There’s a difference in usability if you see what you like really quick. If you want to make sure ppl don’t get it if they don’t need it, make it a new tab.
I really think Lemmy is great and it’s potential is even greater, but users and ease of use are the bottleneck rn, and that goes for every aspect of it.
I don’t mind algorithm feeds as long as it’s not the default view and as long as it’s not mingled with the normal feed. Reddit is an example of the latter case. They mix “promoted” content as well as “you visited a subreddit once so we think you’ll like this post” content along with posts from subreddits you subscribe to. I find that annoying.
So I wouldn’t mind if Lemmy had an algorithm to recommend posts as long as it was in a “recommended posts” section. Then people who want it could click over to it and people who don’t like that could just ignore it.
Small silly subs, like shaqholdingthings
And about six thousand highly byzantine cat subs.
More users would be nice, but
Romereddit 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.
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
