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What are your complaints about Lemmy? (reddthat.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Indexing is a bitch. If I try to find this post again in the future I wouldn't be able to find it. It was much easier to do so on reddit.

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[-] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 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.

[-] lil@lemy.lol 10 points 4 months ago

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?

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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

[-] Mr_Mofu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Im aware that its likely more of an app issue, but Universal GIF and Video Standartification is a must at this point. There is literally nothing more annoying than that and I genuinely see it as Lemmys current biggest hurdle. We can't be a proper site or competition to other simular sites if something like GIFs and Videos basically never work properly.

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

I tried running my own instance. Got it setup, got an account, then started to follow communities. I couldn't get it to work with lemmy world and done of the bigger instances. I gave up after a weekend. It's unfortunate, the invites were stuck in pending for about a week or so.

I'm still using this server, but would like my own as that would ever do slightly help with this servers bandwidth.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 8 points 4 months ago

It's unfortunate, the invites were stuck in pending for about a week or so.

I think that was fixed a while back. Not sure what version, but I haven't seen subscriptions stuck on pending for quite some time.

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

I'll try it again when I have motivation. Personally I just get weekends to do this sort of things. And with work wanting overtime..yeah I'll prob get around to it in 2025.

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[-] Kedly@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com 7 points 4 months ago

It certainly doesn't help that Lemmy had and still has absolutely no sensible way to actually surface niche communities to its subscribers. Unlike Reddit, it doesn't weigh posts by their relative popularity within the community but only by total popularity/popularity within the instance. There's also zero form of community grouping (like Reddit's multireddits) - all of which effectively eliminates all niche communities from any sensible main view mode and floods those with shitty memes and even shittier politics only. This pretty much suffocated the initially enthusiastic niche tech communities I had subscribed to. They stood no chance to thrive and their untimely death was inevitable.

There are some very tepid attempts to remedy this in upcoming Lemmy builds, but I fear it's too little too late.

I fear that Lemmy was simply nowhere near mature enough when it mattered and it has been slowly bleeding users and content ever since. I sincerely hope I'm wrong, though.

@PurpleTentacle@sh.itjust.works https://sh.itjust.works/comment/4451602

[-] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago

Have you not checked scaled sort? It's been around months and prioritises content in smaller communities over larger communities. Tie that with subscribed and you get exactly what is needed.

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 months ago

Yea I’ve been on scaled + subscribed as my default feed since it came out and haven’t looked back.

Interestingly, it’s one of those things that should get better the more people use it.

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[-] maltasoron@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 months ago

Isn't the first issue fixed with Scaled sorting?

[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 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.

[-] electricprism@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

Content moderation should be "opt-in".

Each community should have overlapping moderation teams -- the user can subscribe or unsubscribe to the " filters" those moderators create.

The user should be put at the middle of the world and the user should be given supreme authority over which blocklists, content filters they subscribe to the same as which communities.

They should be able to discriminate against users whose profiles contain various emojis or flags stating their affiliations should they so choose.

If the user wants to avoid content from evangelicals and activist groups they dislike they should be given the tools to hide posts from those people.

None of this should be decided for them, they should decide for themselves.

[-] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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.

Btw GitHub allows you to sort issues by number of thumbs ups, and I believe the devs use this

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc

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