Davy_Jones

1. Lack of granular privacy / profile control

   • “The lack of privacy controls … our profiles are public, and all our posts and comments are visible to anyone.” (lemmy.toot.pt)
   • Users cannot choose who sees their profile history, comments, or posts.

2. Poor content discovery / lack of niche communities / limited diversity

   • “The platform lacks all the communities … There are no communities for games or music or sports or hobbies or movies or anything.” (Reddit)
   • “Not nearly enough people to cover all the niche interest communities that Reddit does.” (szmer.info)

3. Fragmentation across instances / duplication of communities

   • “Multiple communities dedicated to the same thing across multiple instances … causes confusion …” (Popcar's Blog)
   • “There are duplicate communities: every instance seems to have their own version of each community.” (Reddit)

4. Bad User Experience (UX) / usability issues

   • “Lemmy is losing so many potential new users because the UX sucks for the vast majority of people.” (NodeBB Community)
   • “Simply using them is confusing … accessing remote subs is a complete train wreck.” (Reddit)

5. Performance / reliability / scaling problems

   • “Slow and unreliable” is listed among cons. (Slant)
   • “Servers go down … syncing/federation issues.” (Android Authority)

6. Moderation, safety tools, and content-quality issues

   • “Moderation tooling is not adequate for removing illegal content from servers.” (We Distribute)
   • Users report low content quality (memes, shitposts, agenda memes) instead of high-value discussions: > “The politics is always … or it’s toxic American hyper-partisan … The memes aren’t any better.” (Reddit)

7. Search and archive weak/incomplete

   • “Search sucks … Lemmy isn’t.” (szmer.info)
   • Lack of long-tail content archive.

8. Over-representation of particular content types (US-news, memes, agenda posts) and low content-quality

   • Users note: heavy US-centric news, lots of meme posts, little local news/events or regional content.
   • While I didn’t find direct sources for exactly “too much US news / no local events”, the broader complaint of “lack of niche interest/hobby/sports” covers this. (Reddit)

It's not really the previously banned users that are the problem. It's that the real heart and soul of Lemmy is c/2real4meirl or whatever - ie, depression memes.

Reddit initially became popular because it was fun and interesting. Lemmy has picked up some of the old reddit crowd by being a bit more tech focused - but for the most point the links and comments posted are doom and gloom. Either AI is taking all our jobs, or its a huge scam. The world is run by evil capitalists who personally want you, in particular, to have a meaningless and miserable life. But don't worry, because we, the proletariat, will overthrow them in a violent revolution... just as soon as we stop doom scrolling and crying in bed - haha, amiright guys?

Nothing about this is fun or interesting. It is bitter, angering, and depressing. That is what drives people away.

https://lemmy.world/comment/20046325

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We all know the struggle of beloved services slowly going downhill. What’s one service, tool, or website you’ve been using for years that’s still great and hasn’t turned to crap?

Piefed now generates human-readable post URLs instead of those random ID strings. This issue has been around on Lemmy for ages with no real progress from core devs. At this point, you have to wonder what the Lemmy dev team is focusing on.

Whenever I subscribe to a small but very active community, for example lefty_news@ibbit.at, my Scaled sort feed gets flooded almost entirely by posts from that one community. I thought Scaled sort was supposed to highlight outliers across all communities to prevent a single instance from dominating the feed. Is this a bug or just how it's supposed to work?

I’ve just found out that some Lemmy web interfaces let you sign in with multiple accounts and switch between them easily. Is there any client that can show notifications from all accounts at the same time, so I don’t need to switch back and forth?

I’ve checked out Voyager, Photon, Alexandrite, and Tesseract. They all seem quite similar to me. Which one would you recommend?

Right now, Lemmy only lets you pick one language to see and forces you to manually choose a language every time you post. Because of that, most posts end up marked as “undetermined,” so filtering by language hides most content.

It would make more sense if:

• You could set multiple preferred languages to view posts and comments.
• You could set a default posting language instead of picking it every time.
• The initial language settings were auto-filled based on browser or system language.

This would make the language functionality much more useful.

I enabled the “Show Upvote %” option and turned off all the other score-related settings, but now I don’t see anything next to posts where the total score usually appears. Some comments show the percentage, but not in the spot between the vote arrows where the score normally is. I’d expect the upvote percentage to appear for every post and comment in place of the total score, but instead it only shows up as a tooltip when hovering over the arrows. Is this the intended behavior or a bug? Also, is it really necessary to display so many decimal places in the tooltip?

I’d love a Firefox extension that crossposts to Lemmy whenever I upvote a Reddit post. The communities I follow on Reddit are still too niche on Lemmy. I want more of that content here but don’t want to spend the time re-posting manually.

Anyone seen an extension like this?

When exploring communities to post in, using /communities, I believe it would be more effective if they were sorted by active users per month instead of total subscribers. This way, I can choose communities with higher visibility and engagement, leading to better interaction on my posts. Same when choosing the communities I'm posting to in the /create_post page.