I’ll go first. I wish Lemmy communities existed for: destroyed tanks. Ukraine War video report. sopranos duckposting. benzodiazepines.
I will comment more as I think of them.
Honestly I wish there were less communities. I’ve said this before, but people treat Lemmy like late-stage Reddit, expecting niche communities for everything, and we end up with hundreds of communities with no (or one, if we’re lucky) active members.
This problem is then amplified by the fact that these niche communities are split even further across several instances, so our userbase ends up completely dissipated.
I would love to see users focus on a smaller number of more general-purpose communities. Of course, these should still be shared across instances, but I think we would benefit a lot from having, say, a “video games” community instead of 500 specific game communities.
As a side note as well, I don’t think we shouldn’t be “allowed” to create more niche communities (though if an instance admin wanted to regulate, that’s their call). I think this should be more of a user culture shift, if anything.
When I moved to Lemmy from Reddit (about a year ago) and wanted to look for the equivalent of r/Ireland here, I was met with about 5 or 6 different communities (spread across various instances). You couldn’t really call any of them active, occasionally someone would post a link to a news article but there was no engagement.
Things have improved since then but I definitely agree with your point.
I disagree. There’s no problem with hundreds of niche communities. They create the opportunity for a real community to form simply by people subscribing to them. And if nobody posts on them, they are still there, not hurting anyone. But if someone does post on them, then everyone who is subscribed to that muni can see that post. So the worst case scenario is basically neutral, and the best case scenario is people have some posts in their feed for their niche interest.
I honestly don’t think Lemmy will function well without a way for identical communities across different instances could subscribe to eachother, allowing a single feed of information. This would stop the instances splitting the userbase.
Early Reddit had a subreddit for everything, but most were dormant. However as soon as you posted on it, enough people had it on their front page that you’d get a response. I think Lemmy feels very similar to how Reddit did 10 years ago, except many of the dead communities are totally dead.
This is a good point. Reddit originally had no communities. Then there were maybe a dozen, all picked by the admins… and already /r/Atheism was one of them, because that’s how the userbase went. People who don’t understand why such a community was necessary do not remember living through 90s / 00s American culture.
I just want the communities that already exist to have more engagement. It’s pretty demoralizing making a high-effort post and getting only a handful of upvotes and no comments. And it’s like watching a hospice patient visiting a neat-sounding community and realizing all the posts are by the single moderator (and are getting less and less frequent).
I think one of the best ways for folks to contribute to the health of Lemmy would be for everyone to spend some time on “all - new” (or even “all - top hour”) on occasion. “New” on Lemmy is not the cesspool of reposts and garbage that it was on Reddit (although there is a LOT of porn if you don’t have NSFW toggled off), and the quality of the first few pages of “top hour” is usually pretty good (except again for the porn, which it turns out gets pretty decent engagement). I visit “top hour” pretty regularly, and nearly all posts that are stuck in zero-engagement/minimal-engagement pergatory are simply niche content rather than bad content.
We added the scaled sort to help with that(it gives a boost to less active communities), but I don’t know if many people are using it.
I think one other thing that might help would be to adjust the “Active” sort. I believe it has some kind of hard-coded 2 day limit? So posts older than 2 days will not show up. The problem is that as the sort is working right now, it often displays posts that are 2 days old. This isn’t great for getting new content. It’d be nice if the “Active” sort (or any other other sorts) parameters could be configured somehow.
The active, hot, and scaled sort have that two day bump limit, but active uses the newest comment time for it’s algorithm, whereas hot uses the post creation time.
So the hot sort is better for new trending content, and active is better for topics with new comments.
active uses the newest comment time
I think this is what I don’t like about active sort. Just a single comment is all it needs to bump a highly upvoted post to the top. I feel like it should rather look at an aggregate of recent comments or something along those lines, so that a single comment doesn’t cause such a big effect. It’s kinda like if a single vote could move a post to the top.
Hot and Scaled are my main sorts. I alternate a couple of times a day. They get me the most interesting content.
I only check the first 3 pages of Active twice per day.
Edit: New is once per week and I generally regret it.
visiting a neat-sounding community and realizing all the posts are by the single moderator (and are getting less and less frequent).
This will be a key moment towards Lemmy’s growth or decline. Especially in non-tech/meme/politics communities, it’s so easy for the only poster be a single person who is posting daily, and who then simply runs out of content. Maybe the solution is for each frequent poster to post non-daily on several different communities. Anyway, check out !fedigrow@lemm.ee, @Blaze@reddthat.com has started posting a weekly thread on “How is your niche community doing?”
I’ll check it out, thanks!
I miss the “Tales from…” subs. Tales from tech support was regular reading material for me for many years, and in general just having a place to commiserate with others in the same field as you is wonderful. The other ones also helped me be more concious of what I could do to keep myself from being a nuisance to other professionals like my doctor and pharmacist.
More niche, I miss the gunpla sub a lot. We have subs for model making and tabletop miniatures, but the gunpla community was very well run.
In general, I think the lack of moderation tools has made it difficult for communities to do regular “event” posts and the like which used to really help keep subs alive, guide discussions, and gave good examples of the type of content that fit. Like it’s a lot easier to start a new conversation at a party where everyone is talking than to be the first person to speak up in a silent room.
We’re definitely smaller than the Reddit gunpla sub, but I’m really enjoying the gunpla community on lemmy. Everyone’s chummy and welcoming. I’d love to see any you’ve built!
More UK/Europe based communities
Americans shoehorning (their own) politics and religion in every single comment thread is so unbelievably boring
does that happen a lot here or are you venting about the other platform?
Feddit.uk has been great since the admin swap.
It’s really not possible unless Lemmy gets a much larger community, but the thing I miss most about Reddit are episode discussions for TV shows. For almost any show, I could be pretty confident that I’d be able to find a post-watch episode discussion. Those are great for seeing how people felt about the episode or to learn things I may have overlooked.
Yeah I always like to browse those too. You could start a community/post about the shows you’re following. I’m thinking of starting something for The Boys, since it’s starting now (maybe HotD too?)
Well if you do start one for The Boys I’ll prioritize watching the new season asap so I can contribute to the discussions. It looks like it’s already started last week, actually.
As for HotD, I can’t help ya there. After the last couple seasons of GoT I lost interest in that world. A shame, as I loved it while they still had books to follow.
Here it is :D (!theboys@discuss.online)
I will create a community somewhere soon (will look in lemmyverse.net and pick a nice instance other than lemmy.world :p), and leave you another comment when it’s ready, so you can subscribe :)
What they did to GoT after season 4 (probably my favorite; the Oberyn plot is just so good) is nothing short of a crime 🙃 Seasons 5 and 6 still have some good episodes and plot lines, but the lack of source material starts showing. Season 7 takes a deep dive and 8 just disappears into the void. It’s depressing to think about.
Still, I love the world too much and heard good things about it after a couple of episodes were out, so I decided to give it a try, and loved it. It’s very well done from a more “technical” standpoint (as was GoT, even in later seasons), but the writing is also pretty good. Give it a shot!Yeah, I’m sure I’ll eventually get over my disappointment at what the showrunners did to the original and will be in the right headspace to watch other GoT content, but not yet. I still can’t believe what they did to that formerly-beloved show. 😉
Anyway, I just saw your other comment. I’ll subscribe right away and will start the new season this week a so as to contribute to the discussion. Thanks for doing that!
No problem! I’ve created separate posts for all episodes, so feel free to chime in as you watch them :)
Once again here to say I’m surprised Lemmy has no equivalent to KarmaCourt.
I’ve had an idea for a community based around recommending music to each other; you’d post a song or band and get recommendations. Basically a Build my Playlist community.
Like a “what are you listening to today?” group? Someone has been putting that on Ask and i really like it.
“What are you watching?” would be good too.
Sort of? It’d be kinda like Pandora where you’d name a song or band in your post, but people would make the recommendations instead of an algorithm.
I miss the non-porn nudes threads, Normalnudes and NakedProgress, the ones with an “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything” policy where people of all body types could show their shape and/or their fitness progress.
more music related subs, like bluegrass, old time, etc. and active users to go in them.
I wish lemmy communties existed for:
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- How are you doing today?
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- Did you discover anything new to your consciousnesses today?
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- I fucke’ed today. Here is how.
Edit: yeah, I think I miss a few of the old subreddit’s. Even if there is an equivalent in lemmy, such communities are quite silent.
Hey hey hey there is a TIFU community already.
It totally needs more engagement though
Maybe try out !casualconversation@lemm.ee?
The one on feddit.uk is also great.
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Big tiddy goth girls.
Did the lemmynsfw instance die or something?
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Real issue
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I wish Voyager would copy links in this format as I’m too lazy.
Maybe I’ll write a bot when I’m less lazy.
Tits sub
Ass sub
Resident evil sub
Lonely sub
I wish there was more sports engagement, specifically college and pro football. It’s about the only thing that keeps me going back over to the other place.
have you tried discord? That’s my favorite place to chat live sports
I mean, yeah, but the question was about what do I wish was on Lemmy.
I could follow a college football community. Is there a general one - not team specific? Maybe things will pick up in the fall?
There’s a whole sports server at fanatacus.social, but it doesn’t seem to get much engagement for some reason.
Duck posting? Benzodiazepines?
Wat
benzodiazepines
drug addict echo chamber subreddit
people like you like to pretend that Lemmy is so much better than Reddit, then you just walk around spewing hate about people you don’t know. why are you here? you’d be much more at home on Reddit with that attitude
I just stated my view on a subreddit. Was I incorrect? Don’t take it so personally
you just called me and my friends drug addicts and I’m not supposed to take it personally? I recently started having benzos prescribed for panic attacks, and it’s been a great resource for learning about my medication. then I have to sit here and listen to you shame me for talking to people about my psychiatric meds? Go sit on a wire brush.
I don’t believe for half a second that you don’t understand why it was taken personally, which means not only are you walking around insulting people for no apparent reason, you’re also playing dumb. I don’t fuck with either of those so I’m done talking with you.
A big benefit of the fediverse is that it’s still so small that it’s pretty easy to just block the assholes without a constant sea of new ones coming in to take their place.
Whoever the asshole you’re replying to is, I already have them blocked.
Literally scroll the front page of r/benzodiazepines
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Ever venture over to crippling alcoholism? Loved that sub around 8-10 years ago
No? I like beer, but being intoxicated is not pleasurable to me.
