I miss the diversity of the content.
I miss the abundant niche interest subs and subs that (once upon a time) had legitimately good information on everything from camping to bike repair. There were some solid academic subs too.
I don’t miss capricious powermods who control all the popular places or the administrators who do not give a single fuck or the broken ass reporting system that bans people it shouldn’t and ignores people who should definitely be banned. People game the shitty automated ban system using bots to ban anyone they wanted and the appeals process usually took days.
I once reported someone who openly admitted to doing this to get me banned and they didn’t do a damn thing, despite openly admitting he abuses botnets to manipulate the website because they were being paid to do it. He openly admitted this on their own website, nothing though. It became pretty clear that they don’t give a shit. This was before the IPO too.
On that note, I miss communities. Here on Lemmy there’s more or less one community (maybe a few due to instance grouping). On Reddit you’ll find things like streamer communities, hobby communities, and gaming guilds. None of them seem to be taking up Lemmy yet.
They’re out there, but not as big yet and more dispersed.
For example, I run !micromobility@lemmy.world - we’re still pretty small but growing and fairly active despite the small size.
The other part of it is that we all need to put effort into creating, sustaining, and growing the communities we want to exist. It didn’t happen overnight on reddit, and it will take time here too.
Love micromobility, btw, but would you call it a community (ignoring the term Lemmy uses)? Do people interact knowing each other by name? Do they interact outside of Lemmy?
That’s more of what I meant by “community”. A group that just happens to leverage Lemmy for some communications.
Barely, but technically I guess so. Early days though, hopefully the community will really grow in the coming years and become a good resource.
Miss the network effect, don’t miss the amount of dudes there who very loudly lacked any female friends
looks around Lemmy
Well of coarse you don’t miss it. You’re still surrounded by them.
/r/askhistorians mostly.
same here i think I miss them the most.
I can’t believe I forgot about the quality of those posts.
Miss:
- Sheer number of users giving rise to lively niche communities
- Searchability
Not miss:
Asshole business modelSearchability
For searching instances and communities, you can use lemmyverse.net. It’s a bit obnoxious to have an external service for that, but they have done a good job of filling a hole in community search, I think.
For comment search…yeah.
Reddit was infamous for having a useless comment search engine for many years, until people just started doing
site:reddit.comsearches with Google. Like, Google partnering with Reddit had a site famous for great content and terrible searching of it (to the point that one used Google to get by) meeting up with a search engine that had great search but indexed a lot of garbage (to the point that one would specifically do site searches on Reddit to get useful information). Even aside from AI training, I can see why they partnered, my own apprehensions about the anti-competitive aspect aside.Google doesn’t, as far as I know, have a good way to search all Threadiverse sites.
Kagi specifically indexes the Threadiverse, has a search lens for it, and can assign something like
!tvor similar to do so.I don’t know what the status on other search engines is. Might be that some other engine has since added support.
There’s no native full-text search in the UI (and an individual instance doesn’t even see all of the comments made, so it cannot index them for full-text search).
Hmmmmm…I don’t REMEMBER writing this post…or having that account…wait, are you a different person with my same opinions??? Ok, quick, what are your opinions on POGs???
I miss the number of users meaning there was always some kind soul also interested in my niche interest, be it coding, obscure band I just found… that was neat. :)
I don’t miss the number of users meaning lame memes and boring gibberish clogging the pipes, not to mention the argument people on the big subs. :/
Amount of content. Virtually unending streams of whatever you want in any major sub. Here it’s much slower. That results in more personal interaction in the comments though, which I greatly appreciate.
I see that kolanak yiffit guy all of the time
IMO: Anytime you had a question that you wanted to learn about, whether it be shows or science, you could go into your preferred search engine and type reddit and [your question].
A good amount of discussions on the topic would show up and still do.
One day people will use Lemmy as the search engine to look for those discussions, hopefully!
Funny, literally just found out today reddit is now only indexable by google. They have paid partnerships. So that specific feature (which I also make heavy use of) will continue to work but not on duck duck go or other engines. I’m gonna start appending lemmy instead of reddit and maybe just ditch google altogether. Search results have been pretty bad all round for quite a while.
Oh what?! Oh my gosh, these are terrible news. For all not in the loop, here is an Article.
I am really disappointed by this. This is just such a bad monopolistic practice that I’m wondering how in their right mind anyone from Reddit decided this was a good deal to make. On the other hand, it is Reddit, so what did I expect :/
You can actually search Lemmy by adding your instance (or a big instance)
For example:
site:lemmy.ca framework 13Awesome, thanks for informing me and others!
The problem with Lemmy is that deleted posts will nuke all of the comments as well.
At least with Reddit, even if the post was deleted you could still get the answer by going through the comments.
I agree.
That is a feature from Reddit that I miss as well. There were also 3rd party backups of Reddit, so even if communities, posts, or comments were deleted, you would be able to see what was removed.
I got recently diagnosed with autism and r/autism is the reason I started using Reddit again after more than a year. I would prefer using Lemmy for this but there’s barely any activity in autism community on Lemmy. Yeah, I know, I should be the change I want to see. I promise I will try to post something there!
Why do you need a community when that’s basically all of Lemmy?
^sorry couldn’t resist and don’t mean to offend^
Haha, no worries! There’s definitely some truth in this.
Dont apologize for saying whats reality.
I miss the small niche communities.
I don’t miss the larger communities.
Sports subreddits were much more popular there than here.
Yea. Like I want to talk about baseball. There’s like three people here that have a similar interest and there are all following different teams
All you need to know, is that Jose Rameriez is a baseball god, and Tim Anderson is a little bitch!
GO GUARDS!
Oh yea, well explain to me how Pete Rose was banned for gambling and Shohei Ohtani didn’t even receive a reprimand.
It wasn’t him, it was the one armed man!
Cuz Dodgers and Yankees always get a pass.
Ever since MLB realized they could make a metric shit ton of cash by allowing online gambling sites to advertise in their ballparks?
Shoeless Joe and Pete Rose should be FUMING right now.
Fuck the Guards. We just took two out of three against them! Woooooooo, GO PADRES.
BOOOOOOOOO!!! Boo I say!
Hey, I’m amazed we even won that series. The Friars are sketchy at best and the Guards have been on a roll for awhile.
Hell yeah we have!!! We’re gonna win the world series…once in my lifetime…
I agree. Go Guards!
I’m not a militant fan at all. The Padres are my main team, but I have no problem respecting other talent and giving credit where credit is due. The Dodgers are my mortal money, but even I can admit they got some rock solid talent on that team.
I do miss r/padres…
It was nice to have a sub for every team. The during game.chats are fun.
I miss the niche communities that I followed on reddit. There was a lot of sharing and discussion of knowledge there and I learned a lot about my hobbies. I feel more alone in my hobbies and interests now, I have no one to talk about them here.
On the general content side, I’m fine with Lemmy, there’s a lot less to scroll through and I spend a lot less time without feeling like I’m missing out, which is not a bad thing for me. I still can get my jokes, cats and memes in a smaller dose with a lot less reposting than reddit had. Another thing I like about lemmy is that I can interact with the more general content (like right now) without being the billionth comment that no one is going to read anyway
From Reddit itself, just the large userbase. It meant that even niche interests had lively and active communities.
From Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES): the ability to resize images just by cliking and dragging, the ability to tag users in custom ways so you can tell at a glance if they’re someone who past-you thought was an idiot, and endless scrolling.
What I don’t miss: everything else. Comparing the two userbases, Reddit is far more right-wing on average than Lemmy is. It’s nice not having to deal with so many garbage takes here.
Call me crazy, but I feel like I’m in an even smaller echo chamber.
True
I miss most communities not being overly political, I’ve blocked more users and communities than what I’ve subscribed to in lemmy. I don’t want to doom scroll through a political hive mind (which I’m not even aligned with) when I’m on my phone
This is a huge problem on Lemmy because there seem to be far more radical and opposing political opinions on here than on Reddit. You can only ever be a Nazi, or oppose capitalism and finance entirely.
I get that people may be bored of politics, this is legitimate. I disagree that it is a Lemmy’s problem though. Imho, decentralization and leaving Reddit are political decisions, opposing the up hand of big companies on social medias. So it seems to me that it is in the nature of Lemmy and Fediverse to be politically oriented. And even if you disagree that it is in their nature, maybe we can agree that it is logical that they tend to gather politically motivated peoples, as apolitical folks will probably stay on mainstream medias.
I don’t disagree with your message, but this isn’t about being politically motivated against a platform. Many people are, but most people on most platforms don’t purely occupy both extremes of the spectrum. It is not a problem with the platform, but with the users that make the platform divisive for those that wish to interact with it. This isn’t a problem with Reddit, and as someone that spent 15ish years posting on Reddit I can safely say I experienced less vitriol there than on Lemmy.
That may be partly due to there being less hate or divisiveness on niche subs, but the point remains that if people can’t be civil it acts as a negative for Lemmy as a userbase.
The fact that someone already felt the need to downvote this after so few votes already confirms that problem. It’s politics in every damn community (fortunately mostly the comments, not the actual content).
