Flushed out niche communities. There was a real push to create communities a few months ago but it seems like a lot of them haven’t been getting attention since the blackouts ended and a sizeable amount of people returned to Reddit.
It’s understandable considering there’s comparably less people. It would be harder to branch off from a gaming community to specifically a Splinter Cell community for example. That said a lot of the communities that were quickly created and seemingly abandoned aren’t super flushed out with things like a logo or general information in a sidebar which might cause people to not post there to begin with.
I feel like these communities have a real decent chance especially if they are created in larger instances due to how many people sort by all/new on Lemmy compared to Reddit.
Maybe how easy it was to find posts on Reddit using a search engine? Like Googling “How to care for cast iron pans Reddit”
I don’t think I’ll miss the avatars, awards, the Redditisms, how much weight people put into upvotes, the sorting algorithms, and so on.
Same here. Can’t count how many times I’ve thought, oh, I can ask online! only to remember that there likely isn’t a community here fleshed out enough to provide useful information.
For example, I’m a Scout, about to turn 18, and I have a ton of questions regarding how I can be involved in the program after I become an adult. Can’t ask reddit, and discussion related to scouting outside of Reddit is pretty limited.
They shouldn’t be created on larger instances, they really should be made on small niche focused instances to spread things out.
Flairs and automod
Yeah, people love to bitch about automod, until a neonazi troll shits all over the place when a very simple set of automod filters could have prevented anyone seeing it.
Flairs allow superior filtering, simple as that.
I wish they had flairs on Reddit too. That was one of the broken features in the Web UI, both old and new (at least for me)
I agree. Auto mods make moderating a easier and Flairs allow you to easily sort content. I also think that if lemmy were to add flairs in the future they should also allow users to put more than one flair for posts that can fit in more than one catagory. Somthing reddit does not do.
More OC porn
More comments and engagement. See too many posts with zero comments. It’s the discussion and tangents about content that kept me scrolling over there.
I want the integration of wiki’s.
The elder scrolls lore subreddit was one of my favorites, people asking hyper specific questions about the birth of the universe in skyrim was really fun.
TesLore was one of my comfort subs. Although I will die on the hill that Tiber Septim never achieved CHIM
Hiding posts. Half my feed is the same stuff I’ve seen already. I want to be able to hide that shit.
Flairs for sure. I use a couple of sports subreddits and being able to contextualize comments based on the users fandom is pretty helpful.
I want the askahistoran mods here. Imagine millions will migrate to lemmy after that
‘Follow user’. Seems most of thr content management tools are thought out on a ‘negative’ basis. I can block a user since day one almost but can’t follow them. Would love to have a ‘friends’ subreddit as in reddit
57 million users a day
How many of those are bots though.
Honestly? The only thing Lemmy and the rest of the Fediverse needs is institutional backing.
Take something simple like a game company releasing updates, changelogs, DLC announcements, and AMAs, in addition to semi-official communities or just places the developers interact with the community. Right now, for the vast majority of games, those things are happening on Twitter and Reddit, or sometimes private forums.
The Fediverse will become dominant once and only once institutions (government, business, media, etc.) start using it over centralized platforms. It will never truly take off until a Lemmy community becomes the “go-to” place for, say, discussing Paradox Interactive games, over the existing Subreddits.
Sam Harris subreddit. It was the only place where one could have deep philosophical discussions without people losing their minds when you say something that sounds controversial. Used to have days long conversations there about morality, AI, free will, mediation and such.
Everybody else from Reddit.
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