Lemmy

Populated niche communities. The Reddit Exodus created a big blip that now, a month later, well it seems to have died down.

A few thousand people gave Lemmy a shot, and after lemmy.world had issues with the traffic, and went down a lot this past thirty days, I think people just stopped trying.

This is the best Reddit alternative out there and still it's got such poor adoption because it's so different under the hood.

I myself feel I'm missing out on so much content here as was available on Reddit, but I'm trying to actually make a difference by not going back.

Better cross-posting detection support, subscribe to all 3 communities and I'd appreciate Lemmy could understand that this is the same link in those 3 communities and visualize it as a cross-post:

• https://lemmy.ml/post/2729129
• https://lemmy.ml/post/2758146
• https://lemmy.ml/post/2758383

To name a few big ones for me:

• spoilers
• flairs/tagging
• a better mod portal
• database stability

Diversity in its population

• individual option to block instances on your own account

• something similar to what reddit calls multireddits which are basically custom feed collections that allows you to save certain sibreddits to it to only have a feed of specific subreddits you can open up and browse

Video posts are something I kind of miss, particularly for gaming communities to share clips of gameplay

I suppose the big ones for me:

• The ability to follow people which would unlock a lot more interoperability between other Fediverse services.
• A wiki for each community.

Let me group up custom lists of communities, just like custom subreddits on Reddit

Some niche communities are lacking, though I don’t see them existing/growing without a large increase in userbase, since they’re you know, niche. Cities for instance… some I used to frequent on reddit exist on Lemmy, but are naturally not as active. Also I used to talk in (hooray) a couple subs about chronic illnesses which are like, 1% or less of the population, maybe more since sometimes it would be family members or parents talking. Celiac, type 1 diabetes. Same as cities there are communities about those but they are not very active yet.

A way to block porn instances

Like others have said, it's the niche communities. I still go to reddit some times because of small subreddits like r/progressionfantasy, or the subreddits for a book series.

As a site admin, I really wish it was easier to modify the content on the front page. We've had some interesting ideas over here, like linking to some simple online games and posting high scores for the site, or maybe just adding some analytics boxes to the site. But for us that's difficult.

A lot of our ideas come from a shared experience in BBSes from the 90s, where they had game doors, ascii art, and other fun site-specific elements. Technology has changed, but there are modern equivalents to all of those things that we wish we could implement.

• Filtering posts with keywords and hiding posts manually.

Certain topics cause unnecessary anxiety, on reddit they were easy to avoid with RES. Here the only way to remove a post from haunting you from your timeline is to block the poster, which is bit overkill.

I don't like pages, I want infinity scrolling. I want bigger previews on images without having to open the thread.

Stability

I actually made a bunch of feature requests, there are a few reddit enhancement suite features i wanted but what i want most is the ability to incrementally read the comments of a post by marking comments as read (really useful if there is a subject i am particularly interested in or is particularly meaningful).

I mean… it’s clearly “users”.

Wiki Communities please!

• The ability to post the same post to multiple community's
• a native video player / video support

Search

Lack of ads. And I mean that in a transparancy way, people are going to promote stuff ('look at this cool project i've been working on', 'someone needs money in this crowdfunding, after i tell you this long, heartbreaking story') it would be nice to see markings if a post has a direct benefactor and who that benefactor would be, to decide early if you want to engage.

Have federation happen on the instance level. What I mean is, the admin should be able to federate with the instance itself and all its communities.

https://youtu.be/KMU0tzLwhbE

Dunno if this has been mentioned before, but I'd like a way to favourite a community, so that all its post will show up on the main page feed until I've seen them. Because I miss out on posts on some of the smaller communities I follow unless I go to that community's page.

That way I'd be able to see 'em and try and make those smaller instances grow by commenting and upvoting.

A design that scales. Forwarding every like, post and comment to all federated servers will not scale well.