Flushed out niche communities. There was a real push to create communities a few months ago but it seems like a lot of them haven’t been getting attention since the blackouts ended and a sizeable amount of people returned to Reddit.
It’s understandable considering there’s comparably less people. It would be harder to branch off from a gaming community to specifically a Splinter Cell community for example. That said a lot of the communities that were quickly created and seemingly abandoned aren’t super flushed out with things like a logo or general information in a sidebar which might cause people to not post there to begin with.
I feel like these communities have a real decent chance especially if they are created in larger instances due to how many people sort by all/new on Lemmy compared to Reddit.
Maybe how easy it was to find posts on Reddit using a search engine? Like Googling “How to care for cast iron pans Reddit”
I don’t think I’ll miss the avatars, awards, the Redditisms, how much weight people put into upvotes, the sorting algorithms, and so on.
They shouldn’t be created on larger instances, they really should be made on small niche focused instances to spread things out.
Where they’d be nigh impossible to find
And if lemmy.world went down it wouldn’t be accessible, thus negating the reason for decentralization in the first place. Having everything placed in one instance is not good nor healthy for the future of the fediverse. Having things advertised in the new community community is a helpful way of doing so at least. Navigation of other instances needs to be improved upon though.
That’s why I mentioned it. At least then they would show up locally for a group of people.
One thing that might help is advertising in a new-community community but afterwards it would require some extra effort to get it federated across different instances
This is something that will come as we build up numbers, and the fediverse is slowly getting there. I have tried breathing life into a few niche communities by adding some posts, going to have another go soon
I agree. I’m not rushing for it and try posting a lot more frequently than I did on Reddit. I think it’s only a matter of time before the momentum really takes off
Same here. Can’t count how many times I’ve thought, oh, I can ask online! only to remember that there likely isn’t a community here fleshed out enough to provide useful information.
For example, I’m a Scout, about to turn 18, and I have a ton of questions regarding how I can be involved in the program after I become an adult. Can’t ask reddit, and discussion related to scouting outside of Reddit is pretty limited.
More comments and engagement. See too many posts with zero comments. It’s the discussion and tangents about content that kept me scrolling over there.
I’d like people to make more posts rather than just comments. People are pretty good at commenting on posts that get made, but not so much at making posts themselves.
Reminds me of how Reddit had “Community Engagement Ambassadors” (or w/e they were called) who were paid to just go around making low-effort engagement-farming posts on random communities like “What’s your favorite X in this game?” or “What do you think [sports team]'s greatest strength is?”.
People tend to look down on that sort of thing in retrospect, but this sort of “manufactured engagement” is likely the key factor in Reddit’s success as a platform.
I sometimes wonder if I (or just people in general) should start doing this on Lemmy as well, and whether the increased engagement would be worth the bad faith interaction.
I did a bit of that for the community I am trying to build, but I was genuinely interested and gave my own thoughts on the matter. I can’t keep that kind of thing up forever though. I only care so much. 😵💫
I think real questions that actually had some faith, curiousity and effort behind it are going to be a bless. And then comments discussing that question patiently is awesome to see.
And lemmy don’t have the need that reddit had at that time.
We’re also pretty good about replying to comments, but yes pretty shit about creating posts. Or communities. For instance I miss babyelephantgifs but I’m too lazy and incompetent to create/run it.
Reddit lets you create “multireddits” that show posts from a custom collection of subreddits. It would be cool if you could do the same for different communities, perhaps even pooling comment sections from posts with the same submission link. So you could aggregate content from all the technology/politics/whatever communities on various instances, and see combined comments on the same story from across the fediverse. Then you wouldn’t have to worry so much about being on the “right” instance, and could better leverage the size of the overall community instead of having it splintered and hard to discover.
The summit app does that.
It’s the one feature I really miss
An app that does that could be written, with some perceived limits. It could combine comments from posts you subscribe to that have the same link, but not all posts, since not all instances have the same content.
Flairs for sure. I use a couple of sports subreddits and being able to contextualize comments based on the users fandom is pretty helpful.
Flairs and automod
Yeah, people love to removed about automod, until a neonazi troll shits all over the place when a very simple set of automod filters could have prevented anyone seeing it.
Flairs allow superior filtering, simple as that.
I wish they had flairs on Reddit too. That was one of the broken features in the Web UI, both old and new (at least for me)
I agree. Auto mods make moderating a easier and Flairs allow you to easily sort content. I also think that if lemmy were to add flairs in the future they should also allow users to put more than one flair for posts that can fit in more than one catagory. Somthing reddit does not do.
I want the askahistoran mods here. Imagine millions will migrate to lemmy after that
More content from entertainment shows as threads to explore. I love The challenge fromMTV, What we do in the shadows and other shows… I love having discussion with others after a new episode drops to see what others thought… I would like that here
57 million users a day
How many of those are bots though.
A variety of communities focused on women with regular activity
Hiding posts. Half my feed is the same stuff I’ve seen already. I want to be able to hide that shit.
Regex filtering, so I can add “Reddit”.
You joke, but the more I’ve used regular expressions at work, the more I’m infuritated when something doesn’t support regex. Looking at you Excel!
A way of rewarding people for outstandingly good posts or comments, beyond just a simple upvote. I’ve seen some really great contributions on here that stand out above the run of the mill, and it would be nice to be able to give them some extra recognition, even at a cost to myself
Flairs on a community by community basis would be nice too
Emoji reactions I feel like cold be a good option
It’d be a good start for sure
I like it, and it would be easy enough for users who don’t want to see them to disable them
I want the integration of wiki’s.
The elder scrolls lore subreddit was one of my favorites, people asking hyper specific questions about the birth of the universe in skyrim was really fun.
TesLore was one of my comfort subs. Although I will die on the hill that Tiber Septim never achieved CHIM
Honestly? The only thing Lemmy and the rest of the Fediverse needs is institutional backing.
Take something simple like a game company releasing updates, changelogs, DLC announcements, and AMAs, in addition to semi-official communities or just places the developers interact with the community. Right now, for the vast majority of games, those things are happening on Twitter and Reddit, or sometimes private forums.
The Fediverse will become dominant once and only once institutions (government, business, media, etc.) start using it over centralized platforms. It will never truly take off until a Lemmy community becomes the “go-to” place for, say, discussing Paradox Interactive games, over the existing Subreddits.
