I'd like to invite you all to share your thoughts and ideas about Lemmy. This feedback thread is a great place to do that, as it allows for easier discussions than Github thanks to the tree-like comment structure. This is also where the community is at.

Here's how you can participate:

Post one top-level comment per complaint or suggestion about Lemmy.
Reply to comments with your own ideas or links to Github issues related to the complaints.
Be specific and constructive. Avoid vague wishes and focus on specific issues that can be fixed.
This thread is a chance for us to not only identify the biggest pain points but also work together to find the best solutions.

By creating this periodic post, we can:

Track progress on issues raised in previous threads.
See how many issues have been resolved over time.
Gauge whether the developers are responsive to user feedback.

Your input may be valuable in helping prioritize development efforts and ensuring that Lemmy continues to meet the needs of its community. Let's work together to make Lemmy even better!

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[–] PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (12 children)

There were several issues on GitHub regarding proposals on how to solve the low visibility of small communities. However, after the Scaled Sort was implemented, all those issues were closed, yet the problem persists. I continue to use Reddit the same as before because I primarily used it for niche communities, which are lacking here. The few times I’ve posted to a niche community here, I’ve either received no answers or been subject to drive-by downvotes, likely from users not even subscribed to the community. As a result, I now only post on Lemmy when the post is directed to a large community, and I use Reddit for the rest.

[–] PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah because first of all, content had to be spread out across 562826 different communities for no reason other than that reddit had lots of communities, after growing for many many years. It started with just a few.

Then 99% of those were created on Lemmy.world, and every new user was directed to sign up at Lemmy.world.

I guess a lot of people here are younger than me and didn’t experience forums, but we had like 30 forum channels. That was enough to talk about anything at all. And I believe it’s the same here, it would have been enough. And then all channels would have easy to find content.

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[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

this makes me think we should have a marker for communities that are inactive/dead or an easy way to hide them or filter them out in favor of more active communities

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/3174

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They should just be locked down until we have a bigger userbase

The topic comes up regularly on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If they are locked, the people who come here and see them locked will go elsewhere instead of contributing, because they literally can't.

Some people came here to creat communities (eg.: in the wake of Reddit stuff) with the hope that it would catch on. But we can't expect them to do all the work.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Locked with a pinned post to a more active community https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/39199203

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My usual concern with force redirecting people to "where the stuff is popular" is that it promotes centralization, which is the literal opposite of why we're here. Besides, as I've commented some other times, the feasibility of user participation is not transitive across instances. !soccer@sports.xyz might have a completely different rules, mood or culture than !soccer@euro.pe , or the redirect might lead to !soccer@ya.ml which is blocked in my country or otherwise made unavailable. (I am using examples here ofc but I guess this could very well hit people in and around feddit.uk, for one).

There is literally no punishment for keeping a community open so it can sometime either grow organically or die organically. Locking them however, fully prevents either option.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Locking a community still allows people to comment under the pinned post, so if there's any interest to revive that community it can be done that way

At the moment we have a few famous examples

All of those communities have similar rules, there's nothing distinguishing them (!privacy@lemmy.ml for instance is different) except that mods never bothered to agree on a single place

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 3 days ago

for no reason other than that reddit had lots of communities

Yea, looking back we probably should've had limits on creating communities. We all created too many lol

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