• JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

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

    • Opisek@lemmy.world
      2·
      23 hours 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·
        23 hours 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·
          2 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
    10·
    1 day ago

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

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      1 day 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.

  • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    1 day 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.

  • Rose56@lemmy.ca
    1·
    22 hours 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…

  • Zenith@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 day 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

  • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    lack of communities, not found on lemmy, but is active on reddit. even some mirrors are rarely have new posts. more pros than cons though.

    • Zenith@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 day ago

      Communities are so easy to make on Reddit, I’ve looked into making one on Lemmy but I have no idea how to do it, it’s so much less accessible

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          20 hours ago

          that is true, because reddit currently makes it very hard to even moderate a sub reddit, they ban new ones very easily, if not immediately. the only problem is lemmy doesnt have the traffic that reddit has for a specific niche.

    • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
      493·
      2 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
        404·
        2 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
            182·
            2 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.

        • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
          2·
          2 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·
            2 days ago

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

    • redsunrise@programming.devEnglish
      92·
      2 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

  • wpb@lemmy.world
    34·
    22 hours ago

    The people that get their fee fees hurt from seeing opinions they disagree with, cf all the whinging abt tankies in the comments.

  • intelisense@lemm.ee
    341·
    2 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.

  • cm0002@lemmy.world
    523·
    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
      241·
      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
        10·
        2 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
          3·
          2 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
              1·
              2 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

  • Flickerby@lemm.ee
    84·
    2 days ago

    The tankies are far and away the largest problem. It’s the number one reason why lemmy hasn’t grown. Even when I signed up years ago from the reddit exodus every post I saw was heavily cautioned with “it’s filled with tankies”. And now every mention of it is being scrubbed for that reason. The second problem is the smaller size but see reason 1 for that.

    Third problem is the sign up process being so excruciating. I understand it’s to prevent bots but for every 2 bots it’s preventing it’s probably also preventing 1 actual user from signing up. I love this place despite the small size, because I can just sequester off all the tankies entirely on Connect, but if the creators don’t realize they’re actively standing in the way of growth by the actions they’re taking and step away from all their moderation actions to focus on administration and development instead the outlook doesn’t look too great.