What are your complaints about Lemmy?

Please post one top-level comment per complaint about Lemmy. You can reply with ideas or links to existing GitHub issues that could address the complaints. This will help identify both common complaints and potential solutions.

I believe there are a large number of feature requests on Lemmy's GitHub page, making it difficult for developers to prioritize what's truly important to users. I propose creating a periodic post on Lemmy asking users to list their complaints and suggestions. This way, developers can better understand the community's biggest pain points and focus their efforts accordingly. The goal is to provide constructive feedback so developers can prioritize the most pressing issues.

Please keep discussion productive and focused on specific problems you've encountered. Avoid vague complaints or feature wishes without justification for why they are important.

Here is a summary of all the complaints from the previous post from six months ago. It's interesting to see how many issues have been solved and whether or not developers value user feedback.

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• Instance-agnostic links (links that don't pull you into a different instance when clicked)
• Ability to group communities into a combined feed, similar to multireddits
• Front page algorithm shows too many posts from the same community in a row, including reposts
• Need to separate NSFW and NSFL posts
• Basic mod tools
• Proper cross-posting support
• Ability to view upvoted posts
• Post tagging/flairs and search by flair
• Better permalink handling for long comment chains
• Combine duplicate posts from different instances into one
• Allow filtering/blocking by regex patterns
• Avatar deletions not federating across instances
• Option to default to "Top" comment sort in settings
• Migration of profile (posts, comments, upvotes, favs, etc.) between instances
• Mixed feed combining subscribed/local/all based on custom ratios
• Categories of blocklists (language, NSFW, etc)
• Group crossposts to same post as one item
• Feedback for users waiting for admin approval
• Propose mixed feed merging subscribed/local/all feeds
• Ability to subscribe to small/niche communities easier
• Reduce duplicate crossposts showing up
• Scroll to top when clicking "Next" page
• User flair support
• Better language detection/defaults for communities
• Ability to subscribe to category "bundles" of similar meta-communities
• RSS feed support
• Option to turn off reply notifications
• Easier way to subscribe across instances
• Default to "Subscribed" view in community list
• Fix inbox permalinks not navigating properly
• API documentation in OpenAPI format
• Notification badges should update without refresh
• Single community mode for instances
• Reduce drive-by downvoting in small communities
• More powerful front page sorting algorithm

fixedbike831 ,
@fixedbike831@lemmy.world avatar

One of the Major oddities I see of lemmy is how for different servers you use different user name/password/email. Just seems reduntant to me. But that is same with some other social media networks

fosstulate ,
@fosstulate@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

The big news/current affairs instances are characterized by autistic screeching that has only a passing relevance to the article posted. See https://iusearchlinux.fyi/post/5429432

You can take the commenter out of R*ddit...

RonSijm ,
@RonSijm@programming.dev avatar

I believe there are a large number of feature requests on Lemmy’s GitHub page, making it difficult for developers to prioritize what’s truly important to users.

Github issues are annoying that way. You could solve it by closing down "issues" and using discussions instead. People can up and downvote discussions, and you can see that from the listview, unlike with issues.

And you can have threaded conversations in discussions.

guacupado ,

How the people here think they're so much different than Redditors.

nicknonya , (edited )
@nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

personally i think that there should be a way for communities in different instances to formally join each other in a way that sums up the subscribed and active users

onlinepersona ,

I believe there are a large number of feature requests on Lemmy’s GitHub page, making it difficult for developers to prioritize what’s truly important to users. I propose creating a periodic post on Lemmy asking users to list their complaints and suggestions.

Github has a way to mark things as important to users: users have to give the issues a thumbs up. No "+1", no simple "this affects me too" comments, just a simple thumbs up on the issue. Then anybody can sort the issues by emotes.

Also, the amount of people complaining vs the amount of people actually willing to help is phenomenal. This is opensource software. You can contribute:

  • money
  • code
  • documentation
  • translations
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PumpkinDrama OP ,

The Lemmy community is here not on GitHub, and discussions on GitHub issues without a threaded, tree-like structure suck.

onlinepersona ,

IMO, it would be better if every github issue had a corresponding Lemmy thread. Or if this thread were about awareness that github exists and issues should be mentioned there. Users could use their github account to thumb up the issue on github and make non-tech comments on lemmy. Otherwise, using your thread is quite difficult. Put yourself in a dev's shoes:

  • they have to be aware of the threads
  • they have to deduplicate comments (many things are mentioned multiple times by different users)
  • they cannot assign a status to anything (valid, invalid, pull request welcome, in process, done, ...)
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lil ,
@lil@lemy.lol avatar

When I create a Lemmy community it won't be discoverable on other servers until someone on the server subscribes, how do you subscribe if you don't even know it exists? I understand why posts are not sent to servers that have no subscribers of the community, but why doesn't it at least send the name and description of the communities to other servers?

Die4Ever , (edited )
@Die4Ever@programming.dev avatar

An issue for this has been filed https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2951

For now, try this tool https://lemy.lol/post/19638974

Kedly ,

TBH it takes a LOT of blocking to finally start seeing the Tankies less. Threw me for a loop when I first started interacting with them, and I still find instances that I need to fully block in order to not have to deal with them

soggy_kitty ,

For me it's the extremist left and right it's had to block. It really is better without them

Kedly ,

I've definitely seen the extreme end of the left side of the spectrum here, havent seen as much of the right here though, much less the extreme variant... and I'm glad about that

soggy_kitty ,

It's mostly extremist left, I just threw in the right so I didn't get downvoted lol

matcha_addict ,

Searchability is bad.

Growing a new community is hard. I wish people used lemmyverse more often.

Having a fully customizable feed algorithm would be a killer feature.

Die4Ever ,
@Die4Ever@programming.dev avatar

Searchability is bad.

Growing a new community is hard. I wish people used lemmyverse more often.

Try this https://lemy.lol/post/19638974

matcha_addict ,

This certainly helps, but I think is not enough. If I go to the "All" feed, I get everything indiscriminately. I wish there was some in between mechanism. I don't claim to have the answer.

This doesn't address searchability also.

morrowind ,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

I may get flamed for this, but having having algorithmic recommendations would be good. The ones we're used to suck because they're designed to maximize metrics like engagement for advertisers, but it is entirely possible to have one that's user focused and can be turned on/off as users wish. And it doesn't have to be some super complicated thing out of the box

matcha_addict ,

Feed Algorithms aren't inherently wrong imo. The problem with typical feed algorithms is two things:

  • no user choice or control: the user cannot opt out of the algorithm, and cannot customize the algorithm
  • lack of transparency: there's little to no visibility how exactly the algorithm operates.
db0 ,
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Better integration within the larger fediverse, mastodon, friendica, pixelfed, etc. This is a killer feature that none of the big walled gardens can have and will improve the amount of interactions we have (which is a big thing people keep comparing about) a lot.

Swarfega ,

I know it comes with more users. But the default filter on Sync for Lemmy (Active) means I see the same post at the top of my feed for 2 days! Previously on Reddit that would change like the wind changes direction.

Kroxx ,

Sort by hot instead, active seems to purely go off of comments on sync.

Swarfega ,

I wouldn't say hot is great either. Just testing now and the third post is a NSFW post that's 43 minutes old, has 5 votes and 0 comments.

Top seems to work best for me but I do have to pick 24, 12 or 6 hour.

sgibson5150 ,
@sgibson5150@slrpnk.net avatar

No complaints really but I'd take a native keyword blocker. (No apps for me, thanks.)

therealjcdenton ,
@therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip avatar

Multiple communities with the same topic across multiple instances, gets kinda confusing and makes it harder to block ones you aren't interested in

Andromxda ,
@Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

This is biggest one for me

Daxtron2 ,

Especially when the same thing gets posted to all of them at once and the same post floods your front page.

ilinamorato ,

Yes. If you're subscribed to both, it should roll up posts with the same URL from similar communities (how does it know? Good question) into the same comment thread.

Salix , (edited )

Ever since the Reddit exodus, so many people joined Lemmy who just assumes everyone lives in the US.

"My rent is only $----/mo". In what currency? A lot of countries use $.

I noticed that sometimes comments asking "What currency?" or "What country?" gets downvoted even though the original post / comment isn't obvious that they are talking specifically about US :(

soggy_kitty ,

The downvotes are from Americans. Remember that downvotes are not a measurement of correctness, it's just popularity and there are more Americans here than any other country

onlinepersona ,

Are there? I think they are just the loud ones (as usual).

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hamid ,
@hamid@lemmy.world avatar

The idea that it can be or should be a drop in reddit replacement for people who want to scroll an app while they take a shit. The most fun on Lemmy I have is with my community for vegan cooking that is self contained for the most part and something I couldn't ever get off the ground for years on reddit. I think each community should be essentially hosted on its own instance with other instances being for user accounts and identity that can access the community. The front page of my instance would just be my single on topic community.

lemmy_99c4zb3e3 ,
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