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More users to accommodate more active niche communities

active niche and place based communities. the ones i’ve seen for my area are super quiet

more diversity. currently lemmy predominantly has politics, tech, and memes. Anything else is a little rough around the edges or nonexistent

Particularly, I was a huge fan of the Tales from X-style subreddits. It was entertaining to be able to go into them, read some stories about it and see others responses, even if some of them you could totally tell weren't actually real. there have been communities made for some of the topics, but they're dead, and unfortunately, those types of communities aren't really communities that you can do too much with yourself unless you're actively in that same field.

Any amount of positivity and fun. Lemmy users just feel so miserable and argumentative.

I mean sign of the times but damn.

More users.

And for lemmurs to stop being so binary and assuming every discussion is a war zone. Defend a Jewish person and you're a fascist. Defend a Palestinian and you're anti-semetic. Make a 'whore' joke and you're a misogynist. Criticise capitalism and you're a tankie. Accidentally and innocently misgender someone and you're transphobic. Defend trans folk and you're woke. Its all so bloody exhausting.

More users in smaller niche communities. Lemmy has less users in general, so smaller niche communities are practically non-existent here.

content

Active communities. Some of the comms for my interests technically exist, in that they get one post every third month that gets 2 upvotes. Despite everything, these communities are still thriving on Reddit. Yet for whatever reason, any attempt to replicate them here fails. Smh

Niche communities.

The actual Apollo app that’s still being developed by community volunteers. That’s all though, can’t think of anything else.

I mean sure, Lemmy has less content and interaction but that means (for me) that the content that’s shown has more value. Reddit had (and still has) lots of content but more often than not it is the same jokes, memes and questions daily.

Content and the number of users. Good lord there are so many dead boards on lemmy.

More niche communities that I don't have to manage to enjoy. TBF Reddit is pretty bad as a forum too. Car audio for example or really anything where the majority of the discourse is newbies wanting help gets drowned out by people repping popular brands, showing off pie in the sky builds that wouldn't sound good, or arguing about whether capacitors do anything.

a more active and bigger community

A large enough userbase to support more niche topics. On Lemmy, like a lot of small communities, people tend to put the cart before the horse. They make places to share content for very niche topics but there aren't enough to warrant it. Plus sometimes you have mods in certain relatively niche groups that will remove content from their community because it is off topic, but their volume of posts is nowhere near enough for the occasional, technically off topic post to really matter. I see it in Discord servers too. Some places have more channels than users on the server. People get obsessed with categorization.

the niche communities over there, replicated here, but without the number of users some are ghost towns on lemmy. with them forcing popup logins piecemeal, we may get a boost.

also people scattered way too much to other similar platforms, when one instance shutsdown which is problematic.

also some politically heavy instances ban like they would on reddit.

90% of the answers in here boil down to more users.

Shareholder value! JK Reddit doesn't have that either. Zing!

I would say the old.reddit interface but lemmy actually has that. :)

https://old.lemmy.world/

Larger active sports communities. There's a subreddit for every sport you want to follow, and even for each team. So you can get detailed news specifically for your team, go to game threads for real time discussion for any live game and even go lurk your rival team's subreddit to enjoy all the complaining after your team beats them. All of that only works with a large active user base and Lemmy just isn't there yet.

Support from Nebula creators.

Nebula doesn't have its own comment system, so it's up to the individual creator where, if at all, they engage their viewers. Most if not all I've seen mentions reddit. Some may be on Bluesky too, but as far as I'm concerned Bluesky is just another proprietary platform that can turn into a monetization driven project.

I really want to participate in the jetlag discussions, but I don't want to log into my reddit accounts ever again. So I'm left with the nebula community here, which is better than nothing, but we're like 5 accounts that participate monthly.

More users. The scalability to accommodate more users.

Other than that, Lemmy pretty much has everything.

More apolitical communities

Post and user tags

On a down note, /r/ukrainewarvideoreport. I liked following the progress of the war.

Easy way to look at the context of a reply.

Better SEO and forum answers. I hate having to search "my question + reddit" just to get an answer from a real person. Especially as reddit becomes botted to all hell

Awards. I know they were just a source of revenue for the corp, but they could also fund (donate to) the user’s instance receiving the award. Hell, they could also be set to donate to specific causes, selected by instance admins. The admins could give their users input on which causes to support, if the admins chose not to accept the funds themselves.

They could be optional to enable, and provide no special treatment or experience that the user would receive. They could even be not traceable per user, outside of admin consoles, which would make them useless as a way to accumulate internet points.

I’d bet there would be a good amount of folks that would take part in such an experiment. Instances cost real money to maintain, and making a sort of game of it might provide more donations than a simple “donate” button.

I’m sure there will be people who are vehemently against this idea, for privacy or who else knows reasons. There could be a way to scam money somehow, but if it was optional both as a way to give and receive by instance admins, there would be ways to kill it if necessary.

Disable inbox replies

I miss the Awoo videos. Puppies howling, Huskies going mental.

Show the total of my upvotes. I don’t want that to be used for anything like the karma score was. I just want to know the total.

A way to filter old posts by date. So, old posts in the past 24 hours, or one week, etc.