I’m curious to get everyone’s thoughts on opportunities to improve!
More comments, in general. Many posts have tons of upvotes but zero comments so it’s hard to engage in a conversation.
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
This is a good start :) thanks for the comment/contribution
I save posts to check them the next day for this reason. Sorting by new gets boring pretty quick :/
I sort by active, that usually helps
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
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.
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.
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!
Agreed! Even a small comment gets the momentum going
so it’s hard to engage in a conversation.
Have you tried asking a question related to the original post’s content?
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.
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.
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.
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
Users.
More friendliness.
Users. Sites like reddit and communities like Lemmy get their strengths (and weaknesses, but that’s ok) from the size and contributions of their populations. Lemmy doesn’t have enough yet.
Lemmy needs more small communities.
Lemmy is the small community lmao
That’s not exactly what I meant. Aside from a decent Trekkie presence, I don’t think we’ve seen smaller Reddit communities leave for Lemmy.
Oh sorry, I knew what you meant. I was just being tongue in cheek haha. But you’re right, we don’t have any niche presence and that’s what made reddit what it was.
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Less Linux 🫠
Look, I installed Linux on my back hair. 😁
Posts from ultra niche topics I’m interested in that inspire me to do things I would not otherwise. That is what I miss most.
I hope that the new “scaled” search helps solve this very issue
I like to engage in nuanced topics more than I like posting or commenting on random memes. Not necessarily to argue but to learn.
But if you post a comment in a thread that opposes the hive mind - heck even if you suggest the issue might be more complicated - you will accumulate down votes which I presume risks your comment visibility in other threads at a later time.
I wish the voting system could somehow be altered so that there’s a useful/thoughtful indication separate from the “I agree/ I disagree” button.
Multi-reddit-like functionality.
Users being able to group communities together themselves might also be a potential solution to the many, many posts complaining about the fragmentation of identical communities across instances.
Indeed this would really be a game changer feature. However I don’t complain about community fragmentation, I think it’s great because the communities are not really identical but share the same topic, sometimes with different tone, moderation, …
keyword filtering.
The ability to easily hide individual threads.
Like, I’ve seen “Wendy’s wants to go to Uber style pricing”, I want the ability to mark it as “read” and set jerboa or lemmy.world in my browser to “show unread” and still have the ability to view my “read” items later if I want to refer back to them or whatever.
It would drastically improve my mobile experience and greatly improve my PC experience as well.
Along similar lines: using Jerboa, if I click on an image or link, I’d like the corresponding post to be marked as read. Sometimes I don’t feel like visiting the comments but I’ve seen the content so it shouldn’t show as unread.
Interesting, mine (Jerboa application) seems to do this already. I’ll have to check my settings and test out a few posts to see if it actually does though.
EDIT: nope! Don’t know what I thought I saw but it does not do that.
So I’m scrolling down the All feed. Bottom of first page. Click Next Page. I get another page. Some of them are the same posts as on the first page because whatever algorithm ranks them for display just ran again and they got ranked in a different order.
I see one I’m interested in. I click on it. It loads, I leave a comment. I click Back to get back out to the feed. I’m on the first page again. It didn’t remember my place.
Related- I’m in “Subscribed - New” I click a link, click Back and I’m in “Local - Active.” If I cared about video games and linux this would be fine, but…
Fixing that bug where if you do something like upvote someone while typing a comment, your comment gets deleted.
Stop making “Undetermined” the default language for posts and comments, so my feed stops getting spammed by foreign language posts that didn’t bother to correctly tag themselves.
Allow blocking entire instances (I think this might be in the latest update which my instance hasn’t yet migrated to?).
Beyond that, the only thing I really miss from reddit is being able to open the comment thread for a post and read literally hundreds of comments. Gets a bit underwhelming seeing so many front-page posts with 1 or 2 comments.
I’d be ok with language tagging being mandatory.
