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[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Lemmy’s continued lack of basic moderation tools with zero indication that is going to change anytime soon is the biggest problem by far. It is also still a very opaque process to join and participate for the average user and standing up your own instance is no small feat, complete with legal minefields that many don’t even realize they are walking in to. No matter how you were engaging with the fediverse, there are huge hurdles. Even being a lurker is difficult.

I am not knocking the people who dedicate their time to making it work. Every second they give is voluntary and a service for us. But it doesn’t change the fact that we just don’t have what we need. Mastodon is the only side of the fediverse that is ready for prime time, and that’s borderline/has a lot of caveats.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The whole thing is very young - Lemmy is not ready for prime time, but compared to a just a few months ago it has come a long long way. I think it has a healthy user base, and just like Mastodon it will mature gradually as long as the users remain.

It will be interesting to see how groups are integrated in Mastodon - hopefully it'll motivate more cross-fertilization between Mastodon and the Threadiverse. :)

Also, I find Pixlfed to be very much ready for prime time! Peertube as well if you're a content creator interested in hosting your own content, but that's a more narrow use case.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I only joined during the (modest) Reddit migration in June but I don’t think a single new moderation tool has been added since then despite all the momentum. Lots of apps (most of which have already been abandoned) though so that’s at least something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's ironic that the Reddit to Lemmy migration occurred precisely because of the moderation issues of the former. Yet the dev seems to deprioritize this aspect for some reason. This is sad. I do hope Kbin will get a larger traction.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I really can’t be too hard on the devs, this is a completely volunteer operation, and the massive influx led to all kinds of very foundational issues related to scaling. As I said in another comment a day or two ago, I think many are focused on just keeping the wheels from falling off the car that is their own instances right now.

Realistically, I think the only way they can right the course is for several instances to go on hiatus that are run by people who can contribute 10 to 20 hours a week developing the platform. I am also making a number of assumptions, such as there is a big overlap between developers and people running instances.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't think there is a big overlap. The main devs are hosting lemmy.ml and lemmygrad as far as I know. All the other ones are hosted by other people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah makes sense. Do you think they just don’t have enough people working on it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes it's a resources problem, I think so. If enough people donate then they might be able to pay a full time employee to work on it full time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That's frustrating. I think Kbin recently improved it's moderation tools quite a lot, but I'm not involved enough to really have an overview.

I checked out Lemmy for the first time ten months ago from a thread that was shared on Mastodon, it was a completely different product back then. I agree moderation tools need to be a high priority, but there's little doubt the platform has improved a lot over the last year. It saw a sudden growth that nobody was really prepared for, and all in all I think it is impressive how well it has gone so far. Moderation still seems to be better than certain commercial platforms. ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I definitely think the moderation itself is better because there is a stronger pool of people doing it, but we are just so severely limited by what we are able to do. For starters, there are no tiers of moderators. You don’t have like a “prime“ and then lower levels with different tiers of access. You basically have to give total control to another moderator, which is a huge risk.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I agree. I'm a " reddit refugee " so to speak but I think people here are jumping the gun with their expectations. Of course, Lemmy is not brand new but the actual influx of users seems to be pretty recent.

It took years for reddit to really become a more diverse site that actually appealed to a wider demographic then just tech nerds and communists, which from what I can understand is more or less what lemmy was comprised of before the huge uptick in migration here lol.

Anyways I do think people need to cool it with their expectations. More and better moderating tools being needed is in no way limited to just Lemmy either. Mastodon also has problems with admins fucking with whole instances, or just outright disappearing and leaving the ship without a captain.

Its the teething stages of the fediverse. For what its worth, its fucking amazing thats something as decentralized is getting this much play anyways.

The more people that come along and the more diversity in communties will eventually make the fediverse a better and more useful place then reddit was. It will take some time though, and a much large user base. It will come though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

communists

Were actual tankies (you know, like those on lemmygrad.ml) really that much of a part of Reddit in it's inception as well? Holly crap!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Is there a road map for Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

PeerTube is ready for posting videos but not for consuming videos. I'm very involved in it with my own instance and my [email protected] but find it impossible to continuously find videos to watch on a daily basis and on top of that it doesn't have a player for the TV where I normally watch all videos on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Mastodon apps don't have the same variety of UI as Lemmy. Applications for Lemmy are simpler and more intuitive for new users who come from traditional social networks (such as Reddit).

Who knows what the developers are planning?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

None of us know what the developers are planning. That’s part of the issue. We don’t know what’s coming down the pipeline or if certain issues are even being addressed.

It’s the blessing and a curse of FOSS projects. Potentially near-endless capacity to address issues, but no systems in place to make sure issues are being addressed.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Don’t forget to comment if you want to get thrown out of a window too

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Defederade? No

Defenestrate!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Awesome! I didn't see that coming but it's perfect

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Umm sweaty you didn't type the three paragraph minimum expressing how capitalism is the reason that you stubbed your toe last night and I also noticed you didn't go out of your way to clarify that the Uygher Genocide is fictional western propaganda so unfortunate I'm going to downvote you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I see more comments like this than I do instances of the behavior people like you describe.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

We've got like 0.5% of the users. I'm fine with the low hanging fruit till we grow further.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm commenting to boost engagement!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Honestly? So much politics around that I don't even try to comment on lots of stuff. Fuck getting downvoted for an opinion doesn't match with whatever americans believe in now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Come comment on sports stuff! We don't have enough of that, the threads are pretty empty

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

downvotes don't really matter though it's not like we have karma like on reddit or anything

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Stop trying to fill Lemmy with content. Fucks sake. So much stupid surface level low engagement junk either copied from or literally copy pasted from reddit. I'm about ready to just instance block Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ML so I can just read, idk, Blahaj and Solarpunk.

When I think "Original Content" on Lemmy my mind instantly goes to The Police Problem. Super detailed posts about police news. Multiple links in the posts and the comments to multiple perspectives. Very informed takes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

👀

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

It's not that the others don't have screenshots of each other. Where is that meme that in 1999, there where thousands of pages, now there are 3 and each is full of screenshots of the others?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I mean, it's only worth it for this to grow, if it's quality content. I do wish we'd have more niche communities, but I'm fine for what we have now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Reddit content also suffered intensively. Loose loose fir everyone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Honestly, I either can’t find a group that’s alive, or I see duplicates of the same posts in many groups. Coordinating content and having a searchable master index of groups would make it easier to use.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

The only original content I can think about right now is polandball. Other than that, reddit did and is doing the same.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I'm already struggling with reading the most important stuff on Lemmy, I feel like I'm missing important stuff. I'm quite OK with the amount right now.

Perhaps it'd be nice with a bit more diversity. I can't find many typical female topics, no topics about Asia, Africa or South America (might be a language problem though) and so on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Exactly