It is objectively a lot more male than Reddit or other social media. Reddit has many issues, but lack of women is not one of them.
Duplicate posts. Soooo many duplicate posts
Everyone complains about it being empty and not many want to do anything about it. I’m not sure if this is even because of the user number, because I’ve been on forums with just a few users that were very active. It often seems like too many people here are waiting for a large influx of users so that others can do the posting. Also people try waaaay too hard to copy Reddit 1:1. They have this one very specific community with certain content and try to copy it here. If there was a subreddit for a 1998 version of an obscure computer game, they want this very same community to exist here. Instead of discussing said game in a more general community.
Lemmy? the politics.
the fediverse? I know I’ve said this like a billion times to the same five people who come on here, but federated platforms still ape the format of big social media platforms, and inherit many of their pitfalls. I want long-term discussion and human connection, not an endless waterfall of content that quickly gets swept away.
Everyone on Lemmy has a tiny penis and severe personality disorder. I blend in too much.
The thing that concerns me the most about federated content, is that a malicious actor could post something horrible/illegal (CSAM as the obvious example) and that gets replicated across the instances. Now those instances are “hosting” the content and could be held liable for it. A major corporation can pay lawyers to say the content was user posted and they are not responsible (happens all the time) but your average Lemmy admin does not have the same resources to defend themselves.
Not enough artists posting their weird shit. Analogue Nowhere rules but i need more
Not enough users.
I’ll add delusional kids who think they’re progressive or better than reddit but are actually just the same liberals incels and chuds but with different wallpaper.
This website/network is even more isolated and cut-off from the wider world so you see a lot more people who have absolutely no idea how the world works and what it means to live, to have values, to contribute and have real community. The tone of isolationism and xenophobia of people with even slightly different attitudes reminds me a lot of when I made burner accounts on /r/conservative and /r/theredpill.
And I don’t mean that from a “both sides are the same” way. I am pretty deep left, but there are a lot of people here who are seriously bigoted and contentious with anyone who doesn’t push all the “perfect performative leftist” buttons on any idea, and somehow think they’re superior despite being alone, asocial, anti-work, anti-money, anti-establishment in every way, against voting, against political action that isn’t tankie roleplay, against community that isn’t discord echo-chambers.
Haters recently on here. Much more blocking necessary than half a year ago or so
Russian propaganda
Few users. You would notice a very big difference if there were more as you see the number of posts and comments.
I like the Voyager app, it helps integrate with piefed and has a lemmy community discovery feature, however I get this weird delay where communities appear blank the first time I land on them.
To many communists.
Tankies and anarchists.
This is like an echo champer of tech people, hard to find non-tech aware people here.
That was reddit when it first started it just takes time the problem is reddit people want to speed run this and created a bunch of communities then abandoned them or filled them with AI Slop. Only making it harder for stuff to grow organically. I do wish Lemmy and Piefed had a network global name space for communities like how IRC does channels.
it just takes time
It takes more than just that, though. Reddit’s UI and mod tools are more powerful, and the Fediverse as both a concept and a practical entity are more demanding and trickier to understand and use.
Agree. I like tech and I’m subscribed to tech communities. But not a whole lot other than that here.
We’re here, we’re just self-aware enough not to make it too obvious. I just don’t even interact with half the content in all because I have no fucking clue what a “distro” is, is it like a mix between a disco and a bistro? Sounds fucking awesome actually, I’m in.
Skip the “all” feed. It’s not interesting to me either, even though I’m familiar with distros and such. I just read the “subscribed” where I’ll find stuff I care about.
There’s just not enough content. I come here to doom-scroll and troll trolls, it’s much harder to do that when most of the communities I’m actually interested in are nearly inactive or don’t exist at all.
Yeah, that’s a real problem. All the really interesting special communities get like 1 post a week at most.
