I miss a lot of the smaller dedicated communities. There were a lot there were essentially mirrored from Reddit but a lot of the userbase disappeared. They are widely federated and posts get votes and comments but there’s not a lot of people putting out content.
What I don’t miss is the power mods and all the auto mods. They just get tiring.
Removed by mod
You forgot the constant Linux fellating
And the Star Trek memes.
It’s pretty tame here, though. I’m used to forums with lots of Linux nerds and software developers. Loving to discuss technology and questioning the status quo. On Lemmy that’s pretty toned down. I think it leans more to the average in society. Which surprises me, considering this is a niche place on the internet.
They already said trans shitposts
Shattered Pixel Dungeon’s creator came over, is at !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world, and there’s actually traffic there. Which is cool, since it is, IMHO, one of an extremely small number of good open source games with an Android release.
And I think that video games are actually one of the areas that there are enough people to have reasonable discussions on.
But yeah, the lack of scale is real.
What I’d do is just have discussions on specific video games in the generic video games forums (e.g. !games@sh.itjust.works).
Then if the traffic there becomes unworkably high, shift to genre communities, for RPGs or MOBAs or whatnot. Stuff like !shmups@lemmus.org (which I don’t think has a sustainable population yet – it’s still one dedicated guy posting content to generate a community).
And if things there get too busy, then make the jump to individual games.
Otherwise, hard to have enough traffic for regular discussion.
That kind of slow-to-create-new-forums structure was especially common on Usenet, where the bar to creating a group was higher than it is on Reddit or on the Threadiverse, so creation only happened when there was a lot of pent-up demand for it.
+1 for Shattered Pxel Dungeon! The game play is devious in its simplicity but still incredibly rich and nuanced. The Dev takes great care to keep the content fresh & balanced. Plus the community is great.
You put up a lot of US election stuff yourself?!
True, but I miss the other communities
I don’t think there’s much escaping that besides finding a small niche instance or blocking communities that aren’t relevant to you.
Each social media site has a stereotype demographic and I don’t see Lemmy’s changing in the foreseeable future.
Even for non-niche interests, it was nice to have at least some spaces where memes were against the rules.
Here that’s quite rare. It ends up being much more politics heavy, and still with more memes than I’d care to see even with heavy blocking of communities.
Support for tags would help. Or an option to auto collapse comments with inline images.
This.
Redditors using “This” is another thing I hated. It adds nothing to the conversation and came off as someone fishing for upvotes
Corrod
While I generally agree: in this case - you hit most of the points I cared to have mentioned. But considering that lack of participation that comes with small(er) communities, I’d rather have provided some input (visual or otherwise) to encourage further participation, or to at least have furthered the perception.
Otherwise, I don’t have much to add. We just need more bodies doing more things here at the Fediverse in more niche communities that we care about. The issue with the larger audience is it tends to transform into the “Hive Mind” that we all know and love. Because lurkers (such as myself) don’t typically add to conversations when we feel our thoughts have been well enough captured (eg - “this”).
A double-edged sword, for sure.
I miss the diversity of the content.
I got sick of all the trump, biden and now Harris posts. So I added filters to ignore them. I can scroll through “top twelve hours” in about 15 minutes.
It’s reducing my phone addiction which is good
Being European, this is very relatable. Everywhere I turn it’s all just US politics.
Yeah, it’s crazy. These elections are important, but here in Europe we don’t need the live stream of events from the US. Alas, even European media like Deutsche Welle or The Guardian are over saturated with US politics.
I miss the abundant niche interest subs and subs that (once upon a time) had legitimately good information on everything from camping to bike repair. There were some solid academic subs too.
I don’t miss capricious powermods who control all the popular places or the administrators who do not give a single fuck or the broken ass reporting system that bans people it shouldn’t and ignores people who should definitely be banned. People game the shitty automated ban system using bots to ban anyone they wanted and the appeals process usually took days.
I once reported someone who openly admitted to doing this to get me banned and they didn’t do a damn thing, despite openly admitting he abuses botnets to manipulate the website because they were being paid to do it. He openly admitted this on their own website, nothing though. It became pretty clear that they don’t give a shit. This was before the IPO too.
On that note, I miss communities. Here on Lemmy there’s more or less one community (maybe a few due to instance grouping). On Reddit you’ll find things like streamer communities, hobby communities, and gaming guilds. None of them seem to be taking up Lemmy yet.
They’re out there, but not as big yet and more dispersed.
For example, I run !micromobility@lemmy.world - we’re still pretty small but growing and fairly active despite the small size.
The other part of it is that we all need to put effort into creating, sustaining, and growing the communities we want to exist. It didn’t happen overnight on reddit, and it will take time here too.
Love micromobility, btw, but would you call it a community (ignoring the term Lemmy uses)? Do people interact knowing each other by name? Do they interact outside of Lemmy?
That’s more of what I meant by “community”. A group that just happens to leverage Lemmy for some communications.
Barely, but technically I guess so. Early days though, hopefully the community will really grow in the coming years and become a good resource.
Miss:
- Sheer number of users giving rise to lively niche communities
- Searchability
Not miss:
Asshole business modelSearchability
For searching instances and communities, you can use lemmyverse.net. It’s a bit obnoxious to have an external service for that, but they have done a good job of filling a hole in community search, I think.
For comment search…yeah.
Reddit was infamous for having a useless comment search engine for many years, until people just started doing
site:reddit.comsearches with Google. Like, Google partnering with Reddit had a site famous for great content and terrible searching of it (to the point that one used Google to get by) meeting up with a search engine that had great search but indexed a lot of garbage (to the point that one would specifically do site searches on Reddit to get useful information). Even aside from AI training, I can see why they partnered, my own apprehensions about the anti-competitive aspect aside.Google doesn’t, as far as I know, have a good way to search all Threadiverse sites.
Kagi specifically indexes the Threadiverse, has a search lens for it, and can assign something like
!tvor similar to do so.I don’t know what the status on other search engines is. Might be that some other engine has since added support.
There’s no native full-text search in the UI (and an individual instance doesn’t even see all of the comments made, so it cannot index them for full-text search).
Hmmmmm…I don’t REMEMBER writing this post…or having that account…wait, are you a different person with my same opinions??? Ok, quick, what are your opinions on POGs???
/r/askhistorians mostly.
same here i think I miss them the most.
I can’t believe I forgot about the quality of those posts.
Miss the network effect, don’t miss the amount of dudes there who very loudly lacked any female friends
looks around Lemmy
Well of coarse you don’t miss it. You’re still surrounded by them.
I miss actual hobby subs. So much of what’s posted here is just rage bait drummed up from dubious sources. I miss subs that had regular interaction for stuff like growing cactus, troubleshooting and flying multicopters, and mountainbiking subs.
Their analogs exist here, but have one post every three weeks.
I don’t miss how corporate reddit felt in the late 2010s though, and early 20s. Once the AMA sub got ruined, I knew it was the end of an era. They never should have shot that fucking gorilla, that fucked 2016-2021.
Amount of content. Virtually unending streams of whatever you want in any major sub. Here it’s much slower. That results in more personal interaction in the comments though, which I greatly appreciate.
I see that kolanak yiffit guy all of the time
I miss the small niche communities.
I don’t miss the larger communities.
I miss the number of users meaning there was always some kind soul also interested in my niche interest, be it coding, obscure band I just found… that was neat. :)
I don’t miss the number of users meaning lame memes and boring gibberish clogging the pipes, not to mention the argument people on the big subs. :/
I got recently diagnosed with autism and r/autism is the reason I started using Reddit again after more than a year. I would prefer using Lemmy for this but there’s barely any activity in autism community on Lemmy. Yeah, I know, I should be the change I want to see. I promise I will try to post something there!
Why do you need a community when that’s basically all of Lemmy?
^sorry couldn’t resist and don’t mean to offend^
Haha, no worries! There’s definitely some truth in this.
Dont apologize for saying whats reality.
From Reddit itself, just the large userbase. It meant that even niche interests had lively and active communities.
From Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES): the ability to resize images just by cliking and dragging, the ability to tag users in custom ways so you can tell at a glance if they’re someone who past-you thought was an idiot, and endless scrolling.
What I don’t miss: everything else. Comparing the two userbases, Reddit is far more right-wing on average than Lemmy is. It’s nice not having to deal with so many garbage takes here.
IMO: Anytime you had a question that you wanted to learn about, whether it be shows or science, you could go into your preferred search engine and type reddit and [your question].
A good amount of discussions on the topic would show up and still do.
One day people will use Lemmy as the search engine to look for those discussions, hopefully!
Funny, literally just found out today reddit is now only indexable by google. They have paid partnerships. So that specific feature (which I also make heavy use of) will continue to work but not on duck duck go or other engines. I’m gonna start appending lemmy instead of reddit and maybe just ditch google altogether. Search results have been pretty bad all round for quite a while.
Oh what?! Oh my gosh, these are terrible news. For all not in the loop, here is an Article.
I am really disappointed by this. This is just such a bad monopolistic practice that I’m wondering how in their right mind anyone from Reddit decided this was a good deal to make. On the other hand, it is Reddit, so what did I expect :/
You can actually search Lemmy by adding your instance (or a big instance)
For example:
site:lemmy.ca framework 13Awesome, thanks for informing me and others!
The problem with Lemmy is that deleted posts will nuke all of the comments as well.
At least with Reddit, even if the post was deleted you could still get the answer by going through the comments.
I agree.
That is a feature from Reddit that I miss as well. There were also 3rd party backups of Reddit, so even if communities, posts, or comments were deleted, you would be able to see what was removed.
Sports subreddits were much more popular there than here.
Yea. Like I want to talk about baseball. There’s like three people here that have a similar interest and there are all following different teams
All you need to know, is that Jose Rameriez is a baseball god, and Tim Anderson is a little removed!
GO GUARDS!
Oh yea, well explain to me how Pete Rose was banned for gambling and Shohei Ohtani didn’t even receive a reprimand.
It wasn’t him, it was the one armed man!
Cuz Dodgers and Yankees always get a pass.
Ever since MLB realized they could make a metric shit ton of cash by allowing online gambling sites to advertise in their ballparks?
Shoeless Joe and Pete Rose should be FUMING right now.
Fuck the Guards. We just took two out of three against them! Woooooooo, GO PADRES.
BOOOOOOOOO!!! Boo I say!
Hey, I’m amazed we even won that series. The Friars are sketchy at best and the Guards have been on a roll for awhile.
Hell yeah we have!!! We’re gonna win the world series…once in my lifetime…
I agree. Go Guards!
I’m not a militant fan at all. The Padres are my main team, but I have no problem respecting other talent and giving credit where credit is due. The Dodgers are my mortal money, but even I can admit they got some rock solid talent on that team.
I do miss r/padres…
It was nice to have a sub for every team. The during game.chats are fun.
I miss the niche communities that I followed on reddit. There was a lot of sharing and discussion of knowledge there and I learned a lot about my hobbies. I feel more alone in my hobbies and interests now, I have no one to talk about them here.
On the general content side, I’m fine with Lemmy, there’s a lot less to scroll through and I spend a lot less time without feeling like I’m missing out, which is not a bad thing for me. I still can get my jokes, cats and memes in a smaller dose with a lot less reposting than reddit had. Another thing I like about lemmy is that I can interact with the more general content (like right now) without being the billionth comment that no one is going to read anyway
