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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.

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• 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] 6 points 5 months ago

No complaints really but I'd take a native keyword blocker. (No apps for me, thanks.)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Multiple communities with the same topic across multiple instances, gets kinda confusing and makes it harder to block ones you aren't interested in

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

This is biggest one for me

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Ever since the Reddit exodus, so many people joined Lemmy who just assumes everyone lives in the US.

"My rent is only $----/mo". In what currency? A lot of countries use $.

I noticed that sometimes comments asking "What currency?" or "What country?" gets downvoted even though the original post / comment isn't obvious that they are talking specifically about US :(

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

No organizational hierarchy like Usenet, and no tags or hashtags , so there’s no simple way to block huge swaths of content you’re not interested in — like sports, or politics.

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

so there’s no simple way to block huge swaths of content you’re not interested in — like sports, or politics.

The simple way is to show only the groups you have subscribed to.

But yes I do like Usenet's organizational hierarchy.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think it would be nice if same communities from different instances could be merged in same way. Like there are 2 android communities.

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

Join both?

I like alcohol. That doesn't mean every bar should merge into one big bar. Sometimes, despite two identical themed bars serving the same drinks and having similar clientele, you can have a cracking time in one and a shit time in the other.

Sometimes, that's due to the staff (or mods in terms of Lemmy), sometimes, that's due to particularly fun customers being in that day, and sometimes it's just your mood on the day.

Having multiple communities for the same topic is a feature, not a bug. It also prevents a community from being strangled by 1 or 2 bad mods as another community can be made in response. Unlike the Reddit model, where there is 1 community for 1 topic, and if it has bad mods, well, you're shit out of luck.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Yeah okay, I meant if all communities want it of course. Just sometimes it leads to smaller communities that's all

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

It's missing a few features from RES, i opened issues about them , that should make using the platform a better experience. for example i would like to tag open source maintainers so i could prioritize helping them, or just people who contribute more to the community (that i can see i have given several upvotes to).

Also tbh some people here sound like russian or iranians propagandists or bots , if somebody writes something completely unreasonable (like making a terror group sound like the "good guys") I would like to tag him so i could know which submissions to examine more carefully.

Also having something like a "superupvote" like in tildes.net where you can only give it once in a while (e.g. top post this hour/day/week/month/year/decade). Our information diet is very important, consuming content with great "mental nutrients" is a worthwhile goal.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The "front page" of most instances are not interesting to average people or to professionals (e.g. local gov that wants to go open source, like those switching to Mastodon).

Part is lemmy's hot-sort is basically broken as a ranking, another part is bad language filters, another part is that major communities here (fediverse, Linux memes, star trek memes, science memes, etc) are off-putting to out-of-group people because of so many in-group jokes. Its a hard fix.

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

I wish they'd port reddit's old multireddit feature over, and make those lists shareable.

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