It is objectively a lot more male than Reddit or other social media. Reddit has many issues, but lack of women is not one of them.
Not enough users.
To many communists.
I’ll add delusional kids who think they’re progressive or better than reddit but are actually just the same liberals incels and chuds but with different wallpaper.
This website/network is even more isolated and cut-off from the wider world so you see a lot more people who have absolutely no idea how the world works and what it means to live, to have values, to contribute and have real community. The tone of isolationism and xenophobia of people with even slightly different attitudes reminds me a lot of when I made burner accounts on /r/conservative and /r/theredpill.
And I don’t mean that from a “both sides are the same” way. I am pretty deep left, but there are a lot of people here who are seriously bigoted and contentious with anyone who doesn’t push all the “perfect performative leftist” buttons on any idea, and somehow think they’re superior despite being alone, asocial, anti-work, anti-money, anti-establishment in every way, against voting, against political action that isn’t tankie roleplay, against community that isn’t discord echo-chambers.
Everyone on Lemmy has a tiny penis and severe personality disorder. I blend in too much.
Tankies and anarchists.
Duplicate posts. Soooo many duplicate posts
Russian propaganda
Few users. You would notice a very big difference if there were more as you see the number of posts and comments.
Everyone complains about it being empty and not many want to do anything about it. I’m not sure if this is even because of the user number, because I’ve been on forums with just a few users that were very active. It often seems like too many people here are waiting for a large influx of users so that others can do the posting. Also people try waaaay too hard to copy Reddit 1:1. They have this one very specific community with certain content and try to copy it here. If there was a subreddit for a 1998 version of an obscure computer game, they want this very same community to exist here. Instead of discussing said game in a more general community.
That Lemmys’s not too different from Reddit.
Clickbait/ragebait gets upvoted to the top if it makes people feel good; hardly anyone even checks the source. Niche content gets absolutely smothered by this, too, and the niche posters eventually give up.
These are structural problems Lemmy/Piefed can improve, but that doesn’t seem to be the priority :/.
What are your ideas?
I’ve been meaning to make git issues, but in a nutshell, one is “community taxononony”
Instead of being pigeon-holed into a single community, every community would be part of an inherited hierarchy, like a class system in programming. /c/thelastairbender might be part of /c/animation, or /c/television; perhaps both?
Organization would be mutual. Moderators of each have to approve to join and remain in the hierarchy, though the “initial structure” of the community could be set up by admins I suppose. The sub community inherits “global” rules from their parent communities, but can have their own rules as well.
And what’s the point of all this, you ask? Well, way I see it, Lemmy has a “niche” discoverability/attention issue, where big engaging communities like politics crowd out smaller niches. But being a sub community would show all its posts in the communities up the hierarchy as well, getting them the visibility of a “big” community while remaining in the niche. It would allow focused communities to exist, but users browsing bigger communities to see them as an appropriate topical thing. This aggregation is user configurable, of course, but I think it’s very important that this visibility be the default.
And in terms of programming, I think it would be feasible? Admittedly I don’t know the architecture, but it seems like it would fit with existing paradigms.
Another idea I have is a replica of Twitter’s “community notes” feature. Perhaps if a comment gets enough upvotes and is flagged by the comment writer as a “community correction,” and fits certain criteria (like being below a word count, maybe a certain percentage of upvotes being from the host instance), it’s automatically displayed below the original post’s title.
This would allow, for example, clickbait or questionable sources to be called out, or misleading titles to be clarified. Or perhaps the source of original reporting can be hyperlinked.
Theoretically this is a mod’s job, but I feel that:
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Mods don’t want to be heavy-handed
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They’re often overworked/short on time.
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And frankly, let a lot of clickbait/ragebait posts slide anyway.
And for all of Twitter’s failures, this particular feature is a good idea.
Again, it ties into the idea of “attention control,” to try and give information hygiene a chance over people’s impulses.
Mind you, these are very rough ideas. They probably need to be peeled apart, but I do feel strongly about the gist of what they are trying to correct.
I think these are good ideas speaking broadly, but are quite extensive in terms of implementation and getting them right.
Organization would be mutual. Moderators of each have to approve to join and remain in the hierarchy, though the “initial structure” of the community could be set up by admins I suppose. The sub community inherits “global” rules from their parent communities, but can have their own rules as well.
What do you mean by this part? That if I as a mod of television@piefed.social incorporated another community into this hierarchy they’d essentially be a feeder community and I’d effectively be a mod of that community?
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Mostly just the ratio of news/politics to fun/hobby posts. It’s stuff I could already find on any other news platform or social media, and there’s seldom discourse about the topics. It’s often just negativity or some type of leftist gatekeeping. I’d rather just go to the AP news page and read it there.
I like seeing everyone’s art, woodworking, 3D prints, origami, nature photos, and all that other good stuff way more. I like learning about you guys and your interests and I think having a small platform allows that, but many of us either forgot how to share things online or are too you to have ever been a part of mailing lists or IRC and the like.
I use mastodon and piefed to share that stuff but I should start posting here.
I’d be glad to see it!
Also thinking about it more, it would be cool to see more people write posts on how to get into hobbies, cool beginner projects that are maybe below the poster’s skill level but would make good first projects for people, or instructable type posts. Things anyone could do with little to no experience.
I really like how the origami community was doing theme weeks where we could share different animals we attempted.
Spez has taken to suppress progressive views in Reddit such as banning even any discussion of violence in order to make his platform more attractive to mainstream hobbyists… and shareholders. That’s why here you have more political discussions and leftist viewpoints, many from ex-Redditors who were kicked out just because they wanted to punch Nazis.
I do get that, and with the .ML group starting this platform, of course there are a lot of kinds of leftist people here. In a way I enjoy it, even if I don’t agree with a number of people’s views. Spending time here has really made me confused as to what descriptor I could put on my general set of political beliefs.
The part that frustrates me is all posts are either every comment just says the same thing (ie. This person sucks, may some disaster fall upon them.) or it turns into people bickering about who is the best type of leftist. So I get people complaints about either “group think” or that everyone is just fighting each other in every thread like how communists and anarchists seem to have done for the past century.
I don’t see much education, discussion/debate, or anyone organizing or promoting direct action like I’d hope. I’m not a real fan of the ML philosophy, but someone like cowbee I see share a ton of reading material and educational stuff for their belief system is what I’d personally like to see more of from folks like the anarchists and dem socialists. I’d like to see people share stories from programs they’re involved in. I’d love to learn more about stuff like Food Not Bombs or how people are trying to unionize, not from news articles, but by the people here on Lemmy.
Being here got me to take action helping the wildlife in my community, and I’d like to hear about other people actually becoming forces of change. If all of us just stay behind a screen arguing with each other, what is the point of that? You guys have to be up to some good stuff, and I want to see it and be inspired. I got near infinite mainstream news sites if I want to be annoyed and worked up, but I’m here.
I appreciate your owl posts, Anon! 🦉 💖🌛
And I appreciate you reading them! 🦉❤️
I just started making different accounts for different things. This is my general account for everything I care for. But when I’m tired of news I have one for more fun things. And other accounts for more specific interests.
I wish Lemmy would let me de prioritize new, but not entirely get rid of it. But I guess multi communities when that comes out wil fix my need for multiple accounts.
I am forced to see posts in communities I am banned from for having an anti-ai stance AKA a working brain. I didn’t block all of them soon enough.
What I am saying is that you should still be able to block communities you are banned from. Seeing them in my feed and being unable to get rid of them is like seeing cockroaches in a kitchen.
having an anti-ai stance AKA a working brain
Judging from this comment that doesn’t seem to be the issue with you
Did chatgpt write that comment for you?
This is the issue with Lemmy ^
Are you out of tokens for the day already?
Sounds like it would be a good bug report.
If you get banned from your own instance, all your posts and communities you created are deleted. Lots of posts get deleted because of this.
How would someone get banned from their own instance? Do you really own it if you can get banned from it?
Other meaning: “If you get banned from [the instance where you created your user account]” might clear it up. It’s not their own instance in the sense that they are in control of the system but it is the one they might consider “home”.
Compare this against a case where a lemmy.world user gets an instance-wide ban from the admins on lemmy.ml, for example: user can’t participate in .ml communities but it doesn’t nuke their account.
No way! Why should I get banned? It’s the ai slop communities full of no-talent ass clowns who should be banned.
Honestly, they should just automatically be blocked if you are banned from them.
You should be able to add them on the Blocks tab of this page. There’s a text box you can fill in with the community name. It’s more annoying than pressing a button but maybe less than continuing to see the content.
You are a genius.
Yeah that’s crazy
Group think: I rarely comment here because of that…
Are you afraid of the downvotes? (Like not AFRAID afraid, but like reluctant because of.
I dont want to get downvoted to Hell, but like, I dont agree with every opinion and my opinion is equally as valid as anybody elses, and i’d argue that it’s more important when it is counter to the echo chamber. But also, I’m not some hard right or hard left weirdo trying to incite anybody.
I say dont fear the downvotes – contribute your thoughts for the sake of discourse.
I’m afraid of the harassment and being banned.
All it takes is a little dogpiling and usually the mod piles on too and bans you.
lemmy doesnt’ really do DMs yet, but if it did I can bet I’d be getting TONS of nasty DMs from weirdos who take internet comments personally.
Having to block 30 different communities because they’re all literally the same community.
It’s even worse for NSFW communities. We don’t need eleventy billion communities for the same super niche porn content.
That and people posting the same things on multiple communities because it technically fits even though there’s already a niche community specifically for that topic.
Crossposting the same post is kind of pointless still. You can browse all and won’t miss anything.
The NSFW stuff is mostly automated reposting from somewhere else. It’s low quality and kind of worthless.
This is the biggest thing, in my opinion. Decentralization is a double-edged sword.
If I cared about my Lemmy usage more, I might be inclined to build myself a service that aggregates similar topics into larger groups.
Piefed has that feature already.
The nice thing about having an instance dedicated to porn is that you can just block one instance, and that gets you 90% of the way there.
The fucking politics oh my god, in every fucking community good lord. No way to filter it out either.
It takes patience but you can block all the political communities. Once you do that you just have to block a dozen or so super users who spam the other communities with political content.
That’s the thing that drives me crazy- communities that really should be non-political like “Pictures” or idk “Cars” are full of posts like “Heres what Trumps reversal of EPA regulations means for the future of EVs.” Like I get it Trumps bad but can’t you contain that discussion to the 5000 communities devoted to politics?
No, they can’t. They are ‘raising awareness’ and they think anyone who doesn’t want to politize everything and be angry about Trump 24/7 is ‘apolitical’ and/or a Trump supporter.
There is no middle ground with folks like that, let alone separation of powers. I had someone argue with me that taking a dump is a political act because you use a toilet and toilet paper when you do it and those are ‘political goods’. And you better buy TP from a pro LGBT+ TP company otherwise you are ‘part of the problem’.
I got banned from reddit for the first time over posting a picture of my cat sitting on my porch. Why? Because outdoor cats are violent psychopaths murdering cute innocent birds and I was a clearly pro-bird murder.
This is a mostly Western place and two big Western players might have just started WW3 (okay, hopefully and probably not but still), I feel like it’s warranted.
