More original content, less crap reposted via bots.
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
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Just original content you don’t see anywhere else first.
Stroganoff unironically the best thing to happen to Lemmy yet
Can you explain the Stroganoff thing? I think I'm OOTL
I honestly don’t know. Shit just started everywhere out of nothing and that’s what’s great about it
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I agree. Too much of Lemmy is just links to other content instead of people having thoughts of their own and then starting a discussion about it. There isn't a real reason to use Lemmy if there is nothing here that is not anywhere else.
There are a lot memes here so maybe those are often original.
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More hobbies, less doomerism. I don’t need yet another site telling me that the world is fucked by capitalism but it’s be nice to have another site to tell me how to beat those boomerang guys in Zelda 2
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Just decent quality content for various topics which aren't politics or tech. For the good of increasing the size of Lemmy, I think everyone ought to find a couple things they're interested in as hobbies and just dare to make content about them.
Lots of niche communities have the problem where no one posts because no one posts. At some point, you have to just pull the ripcord and start the darn thing, even if it takes a while.
Definitely more of this, there are a lot of cool people with different interests and no spaces for it. Make the content and people will come
For some things it might also be good to make partnerships with other spaces, such as niche subreddits
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For me the fragmentation of the communities cause me pain so I would love to see less fragmentation.
Just do a search for any topic and there are at least a handful of communities all with varying member counts and no idea which one is active.
I’m a programmer so I like to keep up on some different languages.
Java has the few communities but still more than two Rust has at least 10 different communities And the list goes on.
I kind of wish there was some sort of centralization and that communities would either merge or disband but I only see this getting worse.
Ooh, having the ability for a community to set (and unset) itself to direct to another community of their choice would be cool in a baranganic democracy way
I googled around a little bit but didn't quite understand. What's a barangay/baranganic
a barangay is a precolonial / indigenous political unit in SE Asia that literally means "boat"; the ancient political structure was that a barangay (a group of people larger than a family but smaller than a tribe) would federate under a "fleet commander" and sail under their command (e.g. in times of war or raids). the barangay could withdraw their support at a low cost by literally sailing away and/or federating with a different chieftain.
a baranganic democracy is structured such that a group of people can stay together in their chosen community, but that community can pledge itself to a single decision-maker, with the ability to withdraw support at low cost. it's a representative democracy, but the legitimacy and power of the representative is essentially proven by the consent and backing of the governed.
in a fediverse way, this could be like having a Lemmy instance pawn.social that federates with lemmy.ca and lemmy.nl, but with all three in mutual agreement that lemmy.ca is in charge of reduplication communities; lemmy.ca's mod team then decides that in this cluster !memes goes to memes@lemmy.ca, !furry always goes to furry@pawb.social, !woodworking is wood@lemmy.nl and so on. that would allow both for server balancing and federation/defederation but reduce duplicates
TIL. Thank you for that very thorough explanation!
More fun and hobby related stuff. Lemmy is depressing and hateful AF. Feels like most of the people here are afflicted by "Politics as a Personality". At least on Reddit it is pretty easy to avoid that by only subbing to hobby subs but most of those are dead on Lemmy. I switched to using mostly Reddit on my PC again and just using Lemmy on my phone since there is no good mobile reddit app anymore.
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More explanation without toxicity. I think I have gotten shit on on lemmy more than I did on reddit by this point.
Don’t get me wrong. I‘m incorrect sometimes but if I see someone being confidently incorrect, I tell them and explain. And if I tell them that I find their attitude lacking and would like to learn, they get even worse.
A lot of people here are just dicks and the moderators don’t react to reports. They can tell you you‘re a fucking moron for not knowing everything and get away with it. Worse, they dogpile on you with their schoolyard bully attitude.
This is kind of a reason for me to leave if this goes on and it will keep other people from joining, hampering the growth.
I really hope this changes.
More explanation without toxicity. I think I have gotten shit on on lemmy more than I did on reddit by this point.
This doesn’t surprise me. I’m more of a lemmy person than I was ever a Reddit person, but I’m in the same boat.
Along with some of the cultural issues that have happened over on masto, I’ve come to suspect, somewhat controversially, that there is a major difficulty in founding a new and niche social media platform off the back of discontent with a major platform. And that’s because unless the discontent and migration is widespread, but instead marginal, those inclined to reject the mainstream in favour of something niche for some reason will often enough include people who aren’t the most naturally social people and can create and establish somewhat unpalatable cultures.
I hope I’m wrong, and hopefully it’s clear that I’m speaking statistically. But it makes some sense and could be real, both here and other Fedi places.
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Weird, my experience in Lemmy is much more positive compared to Reddit. Usually I can have better discussion here compared to my time at reddit.
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Less hate and radicalism. I’m sorry to say this because I would love Lemmy to rule over Reddit, but most headlines I get are about hate: from Elon Musk, to Apple, to any browser not being Firefox or any OS not being Linux or Android.
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More activity in the hobby subs.
I wish people would actually use the writing and art ones in particular.
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More sharing of hobby pictures
More personal projects by all you creative Lemmings. These are some of my favorite communities:
Less Elon spam. Imagine spending your time obsessing over someone you hate
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More non-tech stuff
Some variety in content that is friendly and fun. Not all doom and hating on corporations. I am not advocating for corporations btw.
More communities for making friends, casual discussions, and local Lemmy meetups.
Askahistorian but it needs to have the same level of moderation
Yea the moderation tools just aren't there yet for such a nicely organized community
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Trackballs i came here because my favourite trackball group migrated here but there is very few posts from them now.
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More serious communities.
Might it be technology (no musk or apple, it's like drama, not tech) but that new litography or the board for under 20$ etc. Robots. Drones?
Biology/longevity/gerontology, no vitamine or supplements BS but studies and trials moving forward to make us live better and longer.
The Arts and people creating, whatever it might be, paintings, sketches, knitting, sewing, woodworking, statues made of clay, and all the other arts!
I guess I hate sensationalism and love sincerity & creativity <3
Cheers
More content around individual games so there feels like more of a community here. Some times its like talking into the void.
Less political respost spam from multiple bots to multiple communities at the same time. Just gets anoying to filter out after a while.
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Niche content. I miss my balisong and machined pens communities. Some of them are in EDC. There's lots of tech because only tech people would use this, if we make it as easy to use then more normal people would come over. Which is good in bad because it would essentially bring the regular reddit society over again.
Active communities for the creative. Like the Affinity Apps DaVinci video editor and other apps besides Adobe Creative Suite.
God yes. I miss my cooking Subreddits. I haven't really seen too much content like that. I pretty much only read asklemmy even though I'm on kbin. I don't care for the memes and political news and it seems like that's all there is.
- Video/film production
- Audio production
- More activity on https://kbin.social/m/truegaming (we got a little community but would love more posts! We’re fun I swear lol)
- home brewing
- coffee
- creative writing
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Modded Minecraft. The community seems to stick with Reddit. There are communities here, but not very active.
Mental health and mental health related communities. Especially ones where we humor each other to cope.
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Science. I find /r/science to be one of the best subs in reddit. Not perfect, but one of the best. It would be great if those with a science background moved to lemmy.
Boobies
Lemmynsfw.com might be the instance for you.
I want to see more people subscribing to and promoting their stuff on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
Also more content on 3D graphics, film, and art.
Metal machining! I got into it a while back and love seeing what people make.
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More entertainment, whether the content is original or not.
What I miss from reddit are the funny videos, memes, the crème de la crème of tiktok and youtube. It doesn't have to be original, it has to be high quality and entertaining or insightful. I miss the old r/videos before it got split into r/videos and r/publicfreakout.
Not always, but most of the time when I come back home, I want to turn off my brain, laugh and be entertained at random shit. I don't want to see random political debate, outrage, etc...
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More of the masto crowd getting involved here. We'd enjoy each other's company, and many of us probably enjoy both formats (microblog/reddit). That much conversation is basically split and mostly cut off along platform lines feels like an unnecessary failure of the fediverse.
In a way this is a bad answer as it's essentially a technological issue. Yes there are things that are possible now, including kbin, I know about them, but they don't really provide truly usable bridges between spaces. But it still irks me a great deal.
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