• JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    Repeated content. When I doomscroll I see the same posts I’ve already seen instead of less popular ones.

    • hazeebabee@slrpnk.net
      2·
      2 days ago

      Some of the lemmy front ends have an option to hide posts you’ve already seen. I know connect does.

    • Opisek@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      I instantly disliked that when I joined Lemmy. This could totally be solved in the frontend by storing hashes of pictures I’ve seen before.

      • Rose56@lemmy.ca
        1·
        2 days ago

        Block the person or the community.
        I had this problem with US politics, same most multiple times, blocking communities did work for me.

        • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          21 hours ago

          I do want to see the content and community, just once though. I don’t even mean the same story being posted multiple times, but I think I see the exact same post multiple times.

  • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee
    12·
    2 days ago

    not enough of my niche interests from reddit moved here. also the sports communities are a little bit like ghost towns

    • Kickforce@lemmy.wtf
      1·
      1 day ago

      Yeah same, the only solution is for you yourself to post in those niche communities more often, making them more active and thus more attractive for other users.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      3·
      2 days ago

      It’s pretty much a symptom of having a small userbase. The most niche thing that can maintain activity isn’t very niche yet. I hope and expect it will improve over time, and in the meanwhile I’d like to see the attitude to Reddit repost bots to soften.

      • aim_at_me@lemmy.nzEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Pleasantly surprised to see a football community that is actually about the game where you kick a ball with your foot.

  • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    2 days ago

    Some Communities are still controlled by people with absurd egos and overconfidence. Most of them hate people too, which is fun for a community manager.

    I think it mirrors real life though, the type of people who want to be leaders tend to be assholes, and the ones who would be good at leading won’t volunteer to do it.

  • Ludrol@szmer.info
    11·
    2 days ago

    Lemmy devs - they are a curse and a blessing. A blessing that they worked on lemmy before reddit exodus. A curse as it’s hard to contribute to the codebase and related components.

    At least we have mbin and piefed to federate with.

    Also in the 2 years since, the culture has shifted. There is less: “This is a new place. let’s make it enjoyable for everyone” and more “I am right, everyone is wrong, and I will ruin your day”, but that could be just my perception and not enough blocking.

    • BubblyRomeo@kbin.earth
      5·
      2 days ago

      “I am right, everyone is wrong, and I will ruin your day”

      u/Ludrol

      This WILL be the fate of EVERY alternative social media platform. Part of Fediverse or not. As all alternate social media platforms birth from some sort of protest/activism/boycott, the best example is how Shittit (Reddit) API changes gave birth to Shitmmy (Lemmy) and Deadbin (Mbin). Alternate platforms usually give space to de-platformed individuals. In the past Alt social medias gave space for the far right and alt-right, now it’s far left and alt-left. Nothing different. Just look at what shitshow is going on in Shitsky (Bluesky) and Shitlight social (Skylight social)! Every post is “Orange man bad!”, “MAGA Bad!”. I gave Shitlight social a try and couldn’t stand it! The folks there are chronically online and so deluded that they think everyone is MAGA, like there was a video where a young 11 year girl drove her parents car to the supermarket to buy something and crashed the car into the supermarket, the comments were like “The parents are Trump supporters!”. I was like WTF! There was no media coverage of this incident (at the point when the video was made), the video was filmed by someone inside the supermarket, no other context, no nothing! And those deluded foids were screaming “Her parents are Trump supporters!” without even knowing the girl’s name! To them everyone is a Trump supporter. Every alt media platform will become like this- filled with individuals on the extreme sides of the political spectrum. No alt media platform will reach mainstream status including the ones on Shitiverse (Fediverse).

  • Zenith@lemm.ee
    5·
    2 days ago

    The fact instances can be closed on users. I’m in EE I’m fairly new and now my instances will be closed, it’s pretty insane my content and account can be unilaterally destroyed by someone entirely out of my control

    The smallness isn’t too bad if you hide read posts, hide posts you don’t care about and subscribe to a lot of different things but things showing up in my feed for days if I don’t hide them is obnoxious to me

  • ter_maxima@jlai.lu
    581·
    3 days ago

    Not enough people for even slightly niche communities. Wanna talk about smash brothers ? 732 people, only 2 posts in the last month.

    This is why people still use reddit on the side.

  • Rose56@lemmy.ca
    2·
    2 days ago

    Communities: People complaining about niche communities, yet they don’t make or promote them. Create a community, promote it, share it with other users, share content.
    Politics: I came here to discuss about everything, but I only see new and dead communities, being overtaken and post daily politics.
    This is what I have blocked so far, yet more communities are being made, and one article goes on and on and on and on…

    • Lizardking13@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 days ago

      It’s just as bad of an echo chamber as other sites. I have to actively “stop” browsing lemmy after a bit because I get annoyed at the repetitive nature of everything.

      I’ve very much tried in the last few years to limit social media. I think it’s been a benefit for me. I like social media, but having “stops” makes it more enjoyable and prevents the doom feelings.

  • intelisense@lemm.ee
    471·
    3 days ago

    Duplicate communities posting the same content over and over again.

    Communities are tied to an instance. How many communities will die because lemm.ee is shutting down? There is a slightly mad rush to migrate communities already.

    Lemmy should have used usent style naming for communities.

    • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
      534·
      3 days ago

      I don’t think that in itself if the problem. anyone can host an instance. The problem is lemmy.ml being the apparent default instance, advertising itself as an instance for privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, and not mentioning seemingly anywhere in the description/rules that only red flavour authoritarian dogma is allowed in political discussion.

      “America bad, therefore former ‘communist’ russia and current ‘communist’ china good.”

      Edit: it’s not featured as prominently as it used to be on join-lemmy.org so things may be improving. they should still mention in the description that western viewpoints on many issues are not allowed due to “rule 1”

      • nebulaone@lemmy.world
        425·
        3 days ago

        I realized .ml was fucking insane and delusional when they glorified Stalin and refused to recognize the atrocities he committed.

        No matter what your political stance is, as soon as you deny negative facts and exclusively push the “positives” it becomes a problem and may radicalize you (if that isn’t already the case).

        What happened to nuanced moderate politics? It seems people unconditionally put the “left” or “right” label on themselves. And ironically these blind followers will have the audacity to call anyone close to the political center, or people who are honest with themselves, cowards.

          • nebulaone@lemmy.world
            202·
            3 days ago

            I was on .ml first after leaving reddit, because I didn’t know this was the case, until I called out straight up state propaganda and defended capitalism with social and ethical policies once. You can imagine how they responded to that.

      • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
        17·
        3 days ago

        yea I visited the instance index some time ago because I had to pick a replacement for lemm.ee (rip in peace), saw the description under lemmy.ml and wondered whether they were being intentionally or accidentally misleading.

        • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
          13·
          3 days ago

          They certainly mislead me. My first year or so was on lemmy.ml @PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml

          After repeated bans i decided to move to a more relaxed instance. i still interact with lemmy.ml because some of the bigger open source communities are there, but .ml admins now cannot block me from accessing the full lemmyverse, only their diminishing corner of it

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          im glad i blocked that instance, i was accidentally engaging into too many .ml posts there were mirror image of how conservatives posts, just whining and chastising opinions.

        • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
          2·
          3 days ago

          well tbf they are the two most active servers there though. not sure why .world isnt on there though. maybe removed temporarily so that newbies filter out to smaller instances

          • wjs018@piefed.socialEnglish
            3·
            3 days ago

            IIRC it is intentional that world isn’t there to help spread out users to other instances.

    • redsunrise@programming.devEnglish
      102·
      3 days ago

      Tankies on their way to hate private ownership and dictatorship of the bourgeoisie so much that they begin to love state ownership and dictatorship of the bureacracy

  • cm0002@lemmy.world
    575·
    3 days ago

    The lemmy.ml instance not being treated the same as the rest of the Triad in regards to defederation

    Some highlights from the link:

    "Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

    “See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

    .ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558

    CW: Original transphobic Comment from Nutomic

    “NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

    General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

    “If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

    And a long list of bans/censorship and allowing the proliferation of known propaganda and misinformation outlets clearly demonstrating use of their instance and recognition to force a political narrative

    • Mearuu@kbin.melroy.org
      281·
      3 days ago

      I am currently working on a report on vote manipulation and the early results are showing clear signs of the some most prolific .ml accounts participating in brigading and vote manipulation.

      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
        11·
        3 days ago

        I can’t count the number of times I made a comment way deep in a chain that conflicts with .ml dogma, and after the first downvote, there are suddenly 5 more within minutes

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        that was so pervasive on reddit, you either get banned, or ended up arguing more and then get banned.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      i block the whole instance, so i dont have to deal with any of those posts, but the single .ml accounts can still be problematic.

        • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          5·
          3 days ago

          I think the parent comment is talking about piefed the software, compared to Lemmy the software, not the specific piefed.social instance they’re posting from.

            • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              3·
              3 days ago

              The developers of the Lemmy software are the admins of the lemmy.ml instance and are problematic. The complaint is that the software itself can’t be separated from the priorities of the .ml instance.

              Piefed doesn’t have the same issue, even if the flagship instance federates with .ml

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    54·
    3 days ago

    Niche communities. Large spaces are built of small niche interest groups. The tooling around small spaces needs to be first class if we want the larger space to be healthy

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      same, certain things location based subs are not found on lemmy, and youtuber channel based discussions also not found here. plus things like like health, medical,etc. movies/entertainment has enough to satisfy people, but not to the extent as on reddit.