A way to easily find and join subs, from my phone/in the app, so I can have my own feed. I’m not willing to set my stuff up on my computer. I’ve worked in IT for over twenty years and I hate doing anything on my computer anymore and can’t get myself to even try. It’s a me problem but it didn’t exist with Reddit. From Apollo I could find, subscribe, leave subs and have my own custom feed. I’d still use Reddit instead if they didn’t kill third party apps. But they did, so I try to make this work but it’s sucks trying to see content so I just don’t spend much time here either, which is fine, I’ve taken to doing crosswords instead when I’m looking to pass some time.
Just joined Lemmy because I found the Voyager app which functions almost identically to the Apollo app.
Voyager has a search function that lets you search Lemmy communities by word and phrases. I just used it to start my own sub feed.
I’ll try it out. I use wefwef and it has a search function but theirs no browse and the search barely finds anything that’s out there.
Users
Small silly subs, like shaqholdingthings
Better moderation tools. A lot of these features are nice to have, but there is no way Lemmy can grow without better moderation tools.
Even with the tiny userbase, we’re having problems with spam and rule breaking content. Add more users and it’s going to be a mess.
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there is a solution to this…
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I think the proposed solution would’ve been to just create the communities yourself.
But the communities need to be not just me. I’m not going to start something super niche and be the only one to post to it.
Videos. Viewing your up/downvotes. Profile posts.
Not a feature of Reddit, but I also miss RES features: user tagging, seeing my votes on a user next to their name, advanced post filtering, and more.
after you sign up to reddit, it will ask you to pick a few things you like from a tag cloud. it will then try and show you more of that.
also, reddit apps that were able to block/filter subs, were able to really remove that from feeds. in lemmy, that only seems to work per instance. fir example, if someone wants to see all posts, except from memes, they’d have to block memes@xyz.net, memes@yomomasinstance.org, etc… There will probably be a new instance every day and they will therefore never be able to actually block “memes”
Currently? Pictures.
I might be alone in this, but everyone always talks shit about recommendations or “the algorithm” on a lot of platforms. It’s really important though. There’s a difference in usability if you see what you like really quick. If you want to make sure ppl don’t get it if they don’t need it, make it a new tab.
I really think Lemmy is great and it’s potential is even greater, but users and ease of use are the bottleneck rn, and that goes for every aspect of it.
Lemmy of all platforms is able to work fine without an algorithm. There needs to be some better sorting options, though. ‘Hot’ prioritizes new posts way too much, so you don’t even see posts that are 2 hours old.
Also some way of making posts from smaller communities show up higher since they’ll never get as many upvotes as posts from popular communities.
I used the hide post feature on Reddit as my main way of browsing to keep topics I was done with from clogging my feed and keeping me from seeing new things.
No option to hide here on Lemmy.
Gold. I don’t really care for the excessive awards they introduced in new Reddit, but gold in OG Reddit was a nice way to highlight and recognize really helpful or creative posts. Even though Lemmy is still pretty new, there have been folks submitting some really detailed and helpful or clever stuff, and it’s a shame that they’re going unnoticed.
Oh, and we’re also missing an r/BestOf
Flairs and polls
A nice thing about lemmy is when we get polls they wouldn’t force you to load a webpage just to use them in third party apps.
None that matter. Lemmy doesn’t have flair or awards or live chat or NFT avatars or any of that bullshit. And that’s not a bad thing.
Post and user flairs would be nice, it’s helpful in certain community types.
The rest though, I’m fine without
Flair is nice. They remind me of old school “signatures” on forums. Awards can also be nice, but I would prefer those more like accolades in CSGO; marking posts as helpful or funny or whatever with a little icon. Not random, arbitrary things you pay money for.
Most of the things Lemmy doesn’t have that Reddit does are the things only added to monetize. They could be repurposed for a more practical use on Lemmy and that would be great.
Lemmy is basically reddit in 2010, which is awesome
A central place where everything happens. Or just the illusion of that.
Lemmy does not feel the same between instances/servers, and that makes everything seem smaller.
The only reason there was a small spike in lemmy users was because the competition entered phase 3 of their enshittening. Just like Mastadon lives off twitter going downhill. It’s not that the product is great, it’s just that it mimics a successful service and that service is going to shit.That’s why I browse “Everything” instead of restricting myself to an instance. I then block communities that I’m not interested in, and also make use of keyword filters in Sync to block unwanted stuff.
