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What are your complaints about Lemmy? (reddthat.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Please post one top-level comment per complaint about Lemmy. You can reply with ideas or links to existing GitHub issues that could address the complaints. This will help identify both common complaints and potential solutions.

I believe there are a large number of feature requests on Lemmy's GitHub page, making it difficult for developers to prioritize what's truly important to users. I propose creating a periodic post on Lemmy asking users to list their complaints and suggestions. This way, developers can better understand the community's biggest pain points and focus their efforts accordingly. The goal is to provide constructive feedback so developers can prioritize the most pressing issues.

Please keep discussion productive and focused on specific problems you've encountered. Avoid vague complaints or feature wishes without justification for why they are important.

Here is a summary of all the complaints from the previous post from six months ago. It's interesting to see how many issues have been solved and whether or not developers value user feedback.

spoiler• Instance-agnostic links (links that don't pull you into a different instance when clicked) • Ability to group communities into a combined feed, similar to multireddits • Front page algorithm shows too many posts from the same community in a row, including reposts • Need to separate NSFW and NSFL posts • Basic mod tools • Proper cross-posting support • Ability to view upvoted posts • Post tagging/flairs and search by flair • Better permalink handling for long comment chains • Combine duplicate posts from different instances into one • Allow filtering/blocking by regex patterns • Avatar deletions not federating across instances • Option to default to "Top" comment sort in settings • Migration of profile (posts, comments, upvotes, favs, etc.) between instances • Mixed feed combining subscribed/local/all based on custom ratios • Categories of blocklists (language, NSFW, etc) • Group crossposts to same post as one item • Feedback for users waiting for admin approval
• Propose mixed feed merging subscribed/local/all feeds • Ability to subscribe to small/niche communities easier • Reduce duplicate crossposts showing up • Scroll to top when clicking "Next" page • User flair support • Better language detection/defaults for communities • Ability to subscribe to category "bundles" of similar meta-communities • RSS feed support • Option to turn off reply notifications • Easier way to subscribe across instances • Default to "Subscribed" view in community list • Fix inbox permalinks not navigating properly • API documentation in OpenAPI format • Notification badges should update without refresh • Single community mode for instances • Reduce drive-by downvoting in small communities • More powerful front page sorting algorithm

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

One of the Major oddities I see of lemmy is how for different servers you use different user name/password/email. Just seems reduntant to me. But that is same with some other social media networks

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

The big news/current affairs instances are characterized by autistic screeching that has only a passing relevance to the article posted. See https://iusearchlinux.fyi/post/5429432

You can take the commenter out of R*ddit...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I believe there are a large number of feature requests on Lemmy’s GitHub page, making it difficult for developers to prioritize what’s truly important to users.

Github issues are annoying that way. You could solve it by closing down "issues" and using discussions instead. People can up and downvote discussions, and you can see that from the listview, unlike with issues.

And you can have threaded conversations in discussions.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

How the people here think they're so much different than Redditors.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

personally i think that there should be a way for communities in different instances to formally join each other in a way that sums up the subscribed and active users

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I believe there are a large number of feature requests on Lemmy’s GitHub page, making it difficult for developers to prioritize what’s truly important to users. I propose creating a periodic post on Lemmy asking users to list their complaints and suggestions.

Github has a way to mark things as important to users: users have to give the issues a thumbs up. No "+1", no simple "this affects me too" comments, just a simple thumbs up on the issue. Then anybody can sort the issues by emotes.

Also, the amount of people complaining vs the amount of people actually willing to help is phenomenal. This is opensource software. You can contribute:

  • money
  • code
  • documentation
  • translations

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The Lemmy community is here not on GitHub, and discussions on GitHub issues without a threaded, tree-like structure suck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

IMO, it would be better if every github issue had a corresponding Lemmy thread. Or if this thread were about awareness that github exists and issues should be mentioned there. Users could use their github account to thumb up the issue on github and make non-tech comments on lemmy. Otherwise, using your thread is quite difficult. Put yourself in a dev's shoes:

  • they have to be aware of the threads
  • they have to deduplicate comments (many things are mentioned multiple times by different users)
  • they cannot assign a status to anything (valid, invalid, pull request welcome, in process, done, ...)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When I create a Lemmy community it won't be discoverable on other servers until someone on the server subscribes, how do you subscribe if you don't even know it exists? I understand why posts are not sent to servers that have no subscribers of the community, but why doesn't it at least send the name and description of the communities to other servers?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

An issue for this has been filed https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2951

For now, try this tool https://lemy.lol/post/19638974

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

TBH it takes a LOT of blocking to finally start seeing the Tankies less. Threw me for a loop when I first started interacting with them, and I still find instances that I need to fully block in order to not have to deal with them

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For me it's the extremist left and right it's had to block. It really is better without them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've definitely seen the extreme end of the left side of the spectrum here, havent seen as much of the right here though, much less the extreme variant... and I'm glad about that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's mostly extremist left, I just threw in the right so I didn't get downvoted lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Fair! xD

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Searchability is bad.

Growing a new community is hard. I wish people used lemmyverse more often.

Having a fully customizable feed algorithm would be a killer feature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I may get flamed for this, but having having algorithmic recommendations would be good. The ones we're used to suck because they're designed to maximize metrics like engagement for advertisers, but it is entirely possible to have one that's user focused and can be turned on/off as users wish. And it doesn't have to be some super complicated thing out of the box

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Feed Algorithms aren't inherently wrong imo. The problem with typical feed algorithms is two things:

  • no user choice or control: the user cannot opt out of the algorithm, and cannot customize the algorithm
  • lack of transparency: there's little to no visibility how exactly the algorithm operates.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Stream's discovery queue is a good counterexample: optional, doesn't manipulate you or waste your time, and each item indicates why it's been recommended (though in my case it all seems to be because they're popular).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Searchability is bad.

Growing a new community is hard. I wish people used lemmyverse more often.

Try this https://lemy.lol/post/19638974

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

This certainly helps, but I think is not enough. If I go to the "All" feed, I get everything indiscriminately. I wish there was some in between mechanism. I don't claim to have the answer.

This doesn't address searchability also.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

Better integration within the larger fediverse, mastodon, friendica, pixelfed, etc. This is a killer feature that none of the big walled gardens can have and will improve the amount of interactions we have (which is a big thing people keep comparing about) a lot.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I know it comes with more users. But the default filter on Sync for Lemmy (Active) means I see the same post at the top of my feed for 2 days! Previously on Reddit that would change like the wind changes direction.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sort by hot instead, active seems to purely go off of comments on sync.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I wouldn't say hot is great either. Just testing now and the third post is a NSFW post that's 43 minutes old, has 5 votes and 0 comments.

Top seems to work best for me but I do have to pick 24, 12 or 6 hour.

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