I’m curious to get everyone’s thoughts on opportunities to improve!

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    More comments, in general. Many posts have tons of upvotes but zero comments so it’s hard to engage in a conversation.

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      Keep in mind that the same article often gets posted to multiple communities on multiple instances, dividing up the comment pool.

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        I asked someone i know why they didn’t join lemmy, their answer is lemmy is too fractured and they have to sub to multiple same community to get the full thing. I think it’s a quirk of fediverse/ap protocol, where each instance could have and want their own community, and some instance user would like to stay in their own instance as well.

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          I like this part of lemmy. You can easily toggle whether you want posts/communities from your instance or globally. And I agree that some of the communities are redundant but I’ve found that it is easy enough to follow similar communities so my feed is all content I like.

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            Yeah, i don’t mind that as well, i browse All instead of Subscribed so i’ll be seeing the same stuff anyway. For people who got really used to reddit though, it’s a challenge.

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          I view it as a benefit because it encourages a small world, tribal model which works better with human brains.

          It’s definitely different however, so I can see some friction if it’s not what people are used to. Frankly I don’t want one topic with thousands of comments, most of which won’t get read.

          I think one needs to transition away from the dopamine fueled high and focus more on what brings meaningful discussion and sharing of diverse opinions. With that said, I wouldn’t be opposed to a feature that allows users to quickly jump to the same discussion on other instances or communities.

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        Maybe there should be an option to join the various conversations together if a user wants to see more content. That sounds pretty difficult to manage, though.

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          A popular suggestion has been to implement the ability for communities across instances to ‘subscribe’ to eachother, which puts the networking of these communities in the hands of the moderators of that community.

          I want that feature above all else.

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            That sounds like a reasonable way to handle it. Federated communities within federated instances.

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      can’t speak for others, but i’m mostly the quiet/introverted/lurker type…

      sometimes i just feel like i have nothing valuable to add to the conversation

      i will make an active effort to engage more tho

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        If you do decide to engage, keep in mind that you’re speaking into one of several identical breakout rooms rather than a giant auditorium as on Reddit.

        In real life meetings I find that smaller groups leads to better discussions.

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      That’s fair. I wonder if anyone has looked into the vote to comment ratio compared to other social media platforms. I’m curious how Lemmy compares

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        I did a little informal comparison between my posts and the ones at r/Superbowl, and whole the ratio was at least decently better at the time, I still get disappointed if I don’t get a few comments on each post.

        The likes are great and all, but to me, that just kinda feels like I’m just checking off boxes. It’s the most basic form of approval.

        Comments though are what really let me know making the posts are worth my time. It lets me know I’m reaching you guys enough to make you say “hey this is cool.” And actual questions or you sharing something about a life experience, etc is worth way more than a hundred upvotes because it lets me know I’ve triggered good feelings in you from something I posted and it makes me want to post a hundred more things to do that again.

        I always make sure to thank my commenters and let them know by replying, they are doing something as important as I am by posting. Without them completing the other side of the equation, it’s just me telling into the void, and it’s boring for me and makes posting a chore. But by you saying literally anything positive, I know I’m having an impact on your day, hopefully in a positive way, and that encourages me to post more, making a positive feedback cycle that will keep this a good place to come.

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          You are right, upvotes are useless internet points but comments stay for future people looking for info. This was why Reddit was useful, finding an answer to a problem in a 7 years old post.

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      Yeah I’ve started to contribute more with comments as well. Sometimes just saying the obvious is a nice way to get the community going!

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      Yeah, thats why i tried to leave as many comment as possible, even the low effort one. Sometime it just depend on the type of post as well.

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        That’s my experience as well. But despite commenting on many post I also leave many without comments, so guess is more an issue on number of user.

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      I do my part by providing my two cents fairly frequently. I try to balance it against not talking out of my ass too often.

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      so it’s hard to engage in a conversation.

      Have you tried asking a question related to the original post’s content?

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        Yes, I do it when I need it but I mean more in general, if I enter an empty post chances are that there’s nothing for me to say. The more comments the more probable is you have an opinion to discuss or something to add to.

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    More fun-type content.

    I like Lemmy, but I feel constantly bombarded by depressing content and “comedy” poisoned by irony and sadness.

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      Yeah, I wish there was a “happy mode” on Lemmy for when I’m already feeling a bit of existential dread. I know it’s not really possible without doing expensive content scanning but I can dream.

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      I’ve never been someone who blocks people and I’ve never been into filtering posts on any site/platform. But there’s no shame in it here. It’s VERY intended for users to have that ability and not just use it when they’re being harassed. For a bit I was even considering using adblock filters to get block some keywords but that hasn’t been as much of a problem lately for me. But just a few communities and accounts are responsible for most of the doom and gloom.

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      Depressing content, and comments full of political extremism where even if you agree in principle, if you don’t take it to quite the extent the rest of them take it, they wanna crucify you.

      Like…as much as my political opinions tend toward progressive, my time here has really gotten me to come around on why a lot of people elsewhere on the political spectrum can’t stand progressives.

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      Yeah this place is by far the most negative social media I’ve tried

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    I still think this is the biggest issue with lemmy right now. There should be a way for communities that are identical across instances that can connect where a post would be cross posted and connected with links to each instance it’s connected with.

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    I’d like all of the similar communities grouped so I can sub to one. It is annoying seeing the same content posted to multiple communities on different instances. It is also harder for new users to find.

    I think we would have more active larger communities if they could all be grouped as one.

    For example if we have gaming@domain1 , gaming@domain2 and gaming@domain3

    I would prefer it was just gaming and all three synced the content and comments. If one node was to drop all of the content and comments would be there. There would be a larger more active community and less repetition. If a new gaming@domain4 joined it would be seeded with the existing content and sync any new content from that node.

    I know it doesnt work like this but I think it would be nice if it did. I know if I go to a steamdeck subreddit I will find all the news related to that. Here I need to check the three or four that I’m subscribed to which is a pain point.

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      Yeah this is one of the things keeping me from using Lemmy as much. I am subscribed to multiple Steam Deck, Patient Gamer, and technology communities and they all have different levels of activity and I see a lot of duplicate posts.

      I believe this would help a lot

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    Instance owners ought to clean up all the unused communities that were created during the Reddit exodus by inactive users/mods only wanting to hoard the names. They’re basically redirecting traffic from actual communities and into a void.

    I wonder how often it happens that some user has a hobby/interest, and go search for a community for this interest. They’ll find an empty community and leave without posting.

    My theory is that if the dead communities didn’t exist, people who actually care about the topic would create their own active communities.

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      When you search for a community in lemmy, by default, the results are ordered by subscribers. If there is an active community on the topic, it will appear above any of the others, so the only way people are finding empty communities is if all of the communities are empty

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    I know that it’s a core design feature of Lemmy and the underlying federation, but it’s pretty annoying that multiple communities with the same name can exist on different instances while not necessarily following the same ruleset or even purpose.

    The small user base gets even more fractured that way, a lot of posts get reposted to multiple instances as well.

    So you either:

    • subscribe to one or two communities and miss a lot of potentially interesting conversations
    • subscribe to more communities and get flooded with reposts and potentially stuff you don’t want to see due to a different ruleset