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 using a search engine on Reddit? 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.
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.
Flairs for sure. I use a couple of sports subreddits and being able to contextualize comments based on the users fandom is pretty helpful.
I want the askahistoran mods here. Imagine millions will migrate to lemmy after that
Flairs and automod
Yeah, people love to bitch 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.
More OC porn
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
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
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
‘Follow user’. Seems most of thr content management tools are thought out on a ‘negative’ basis. I can block a user since day one almost but can’t follow them. Would love to have a ‘friends’ subreddit as in reddit
Sam Harris subreddit. It was the only place where one could have deep philosophical discussions without people losing their minds when you say something that sounds controversial. Used to have days long conversations there about morality, AI, free will, mediation and such.
