1. Lack of granular privacy / profile control

   • “The lack of privacy controls … our profiles are public, and all our posts and comments are visible to anyone.” (lemmy.toot.pt)
   • Users cannot choose who sees their profile history, comments, or posts.

2. Poor content discovery / lack of niche communities / limited diversity

   • “The platform lacks all the communities … There are no communities for games or music or sports or hobbies or movies or anything.” (Reddit)
   • “Not nearly enough people to cover all the niche interest communities that Reddit does.” (szmer.info)

3. Fragmentation across instances / duplication of communities

   • “Multiple communities dedicated to the same thing across multiple instances … causes confusion …” (Popcar's Blog)
   • “There are duplicate communities: every instance seems to have their own version of each community.” (Reddit)

4. Bad User Experience (UX) / usability issues

   • “Lemmy is losing so many potential new users because the UX sucks for the vast majority of people.” (NodeBB Community)
   • “Simply using them is confusing … accessing remote subs is a complete train wreck.” (Reddit)

5. Performance / reliability / scaling problems

   • “Slow and unreliable” is listed among cons. (Slant)
   • “Servers go down … syncing/federation issues.” (Android Authority)

6. Moderation, safety tools, and content-quality issues

   • “Moderation tooling is not adequate for removing illegal content from servers.” (We Distribute)
   • Users report low content quality (memes, shitposts, agenda memes) instead of high-value discussions: > “The politics is always … or it’s toxic American hyper-partisan … The memes aren’t any better.” (Reddit)

7. Search and archive weak/incomplete

   • “Search sucks … Lemmy isn’t.” (szmer.info)
   • Lack of long-tail content archive.

8. Over-representation of particular content types (US-news, memes, agenda posts) and low content-quality

   • Users note: heavy US-centric news, lots of meme posts, little local news/events or regional content.
   • While I didn’t find direct sources for exactly “too much US news / no local events”, the broader complaint of “lack of niche interest/hobby/sports” covers this. (Reddit)

It's not really the previously banned users that are the problem. It's that the real heart and soul of Lemmy is c/2real4meirl or whatever - ie, depression memes.

Reddit initially became popular because it was fun and interesting. Lemmy has picked up some of the old reddit crowd by being a bit more tech focused - but for the most point the links and comments posted are doom and gloom. Either AI is taking all our jobs, or its a huge scam. The world is run by evil capitalists who personally want you, in particular, to have a meaningless and miserable life. But don't worry, because we, the proletariat, will overthrow them in a violent revolution... just as soon as we stop doom scrolling and crying in bed - haha, amiright guys?

Nothing about this is fun or interesting. It is bitter, angering, and depressing. That is what drives people away.

https://lemmy.world/comment/20046325

When you quote a block of text only the first paragraph gets quoted.

I asked something in c/nostupidquestions and got downvoted heavily, was I really out of line? I felt so unwelcomed that I decided to leave Lemmy.

We all know the struggle of beloved services slowly going downhill. What’s one service, tool, or website you’ve been using for years that’s still great and hasn’t turned to crap?

I would like a script that given a list of my liked instances gives me the piefed instances that federate with all of them. Is there something like that?

I was wondering if there’s a site or database that shows how common different hobbies are in each country—like reading books, playing board games, listening to music, cooking, etc.

Does such a ranking or survey exist?

I’m curious, what’s an item, tool, or purchase you own that you feel has completely justified its cost over time? Could be anything from a gadget to a piece of furniture or even software. What made it worth it for you?

Piefed now generates human-readable post URLs instead of those random ID strings. This issue has been around on Lemmy for ages with no real progress from core devs. At this point, you have to wonder what the Lemmy dev team is focusing on.

Imagine a TierMaker where everyone can rank the same things, and instead of just your personal list, it shows a combined “community consensus.” Would be interesting to see how the internet as a whole ranks thinks.

The other day I turned on the radio and the host was giving what sounded like a sermon about “growth” and how everyone loves it because it improves life quality and makes things cheaper. I already avoid mainstream news because it’s all one-sided and shallow, but now I’m getting sermons too.

Is there any way to listen to radio content filtered by topics I actually want, without having to manually build a playlist every day? Maybe podcasts or a feed aggregator plus with TTS to read it in real time?