A publicly available free API.

Developers can create any/multiple methods to interact with Lemmy (ActivityPub). And if I disliked all the methods existing developers created, I can create my own.

It is my choice how I interact.

(And for me Voyager is perfect.)

I like that lemmy is more international than reddit was/is, and so we get more viewpoints on different events.

I don’t like how slack some community moderators are. There are too many communities that allow too wide a variety. I saw a post in mentalhealth.world that was a political complaint that didn’t have any relevance to mental health, and the one commenter who tried to call that fact out got harassed by the OP.

I don’t like how xenophobic a lot of users here are. I’ve seen a lot of users attack others over things individuals can’t control. Hating citizens of XYZ nation rather than their politicians/leaders.

Not every Russian is evil. Not every American is evil. Not every British, Hungarian, Isreali, etc. Yes the people have the majority, but most regular citizens are just as scared of their government as anyone.

Yeah there’s people that support their government to delusional degrees, but a lot of what I’m referring to is umbrella’d as, ‘your leader is still in power so you must be a baddie.’ It’s not just on .ml either, it’s on .zip, piefed, .world, all of them. I personally have been treated as a trump-loving ice-supporter or otherwise complicit, just for saying I’m American.

It’s very hard to get longer conversations going. It’s hard to interact more than briefly on a subject.

Guess that’s more on the protocol itself though.

What i like:

• the fact that the software works flawlessly and has very quick response times to everything,
• the people here

what i think could be improved:

• more people, also more niche communities
• more content that is not political
• better connectivity across the fediverse, i.e. being able to discover content from mastodon and pixelfed and such
• this goes two ways: also that mastodon users have an easier time discovering lemmy content

what i think would be very cool:

• a fediverse map, which maps fediverse instances to physical locations. and allows to automatically show content from “instances near you”, i.e. if i live in vienna, it also shows me content from austria, augsburg, dresden, depending on physical location. this would help discover events and organize irl events when you can easily tell how physically distant it is from you. maybe also a per-instance list of the closest-by instances according to physical space for easier content discovery.

Ability to display context in a message thread would be helpful with interactions.

The userbase needs to be more moderate and grown up.

Way too many of the users operating at a toddler/teenager level and they have victim-bully complexes. and when presented with adult things like facts and reasonable discourse, they throw temper tantrums. the lack of open-mindedness, curiosity, and respect for others differences is astounding.

this is what destroyed reddit. the sensitive wannabe edgelords became the mods and took over and destroyed so many communities. they say randomness, uniqueness, and diversity as threats to themselves and systematically stamped out those things until many of them became bland echo chambers of users parroting the same cliche talking points at teach other and bias-confirming, and banning/removing any content that didn’t mesh with their pre-selected ‘correct’ beliefs.

I legitimately adored reddit back when it was a diverse space of random people sharing things, but that when it was a weird niche website nobody knew about. it felt like a genuinely productive space to learn stuff from other people, rather than a endless stream of bullshit.

the issue with lemmy and fedi is that few users here seem to be interested in a pre-bullshit type of internet community, and very interested in having a space where they can push their own bullshit and get ‘followers’ rather than foster interaction.

i want some way to have multiple feeds, after subscribing to some comms that has way too many posts I can rarely see anything from the others.

The echo chamber and reposts of the same shit ad nauseum. Getting called a Nazi and picking up bans for luke warm takes not agreeing with full on communism and not treating conservatives as one big maga group.

The loud nerds make this place unbearable if not for the fact that Reddit is worse garbage.

I think the biggest flaw lemmy has is the upvote/downvote system, same as on reddit. The arrows are used as an agree/disagree indicator, which buries unpopular opinions and rewards popular “low-risk” ones, thus creating the same echo-chambers we’re all so tired of.

I wish that Lemmy’s Markdown variant didn’t convert “(c)” to “©” (“©” if it doesn’t show up on PieFed or some other piece of software).

I not-infrequently want to make lists where I am using “(a)”, “(b)” and “(c)”. It’s also frequently used in US laws, which I will sometimes copy-paste. I never, ever see people needing to use the copyright symbol. If someone wants to write “copyright”, they can write it out or go to the trouble of using Unicode on their client.

I do like the fact that Lemmy’s Markdown dropped Reddit’s auto-renumbering of numbered lists, which I think was a huge mistake for Reddit to do. Neat idea, but in practice, people would copy-paste items out of numbered lists elsewhere and want to retain the actual item and then Reddit would go renumber it.

EDIT: I checked. Apparently it doesn’t show up on PieFed, which makes me like it even less, since that means that Lemmy and PieFed (and maybe Mbin) users don’t get the same view of “(c)”.

I like that I can just block users or communities that I’m not interested in, and just browse all the rest. The amount of cross posting could be better, it’s not uncommon to see the same post five times in a row.

Some way to not see the same thing posted 5-10 times over.

Despite being orders of magnitude smaller platform compared to reddit, my posts are getting way more traction instead of getting immediately buried. I feel like the slower pace rewards quality over timing/luck. Generally, when I make a post about something it’s a topic I like to discuss so it’s nice to get some engagement.

It’s small enough that I regularly interact with users I recognize and know a fair bit about but big enough that there are plenty of strangers. I like the radicalism too obviously. Best part is still the lack of ads though, can’t beat that.

I wish there was more silly haha content. Politics and news are great and all but I don’t want that to be all lemmy is. I do a little by posting funny hahas here and there. I don’t have any solutions to offer unfortunately.

I want to see some moderated semi-official communities. Like /c/all.