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[–] jpeps@lemmy.world 1 points 53 minutes ago

Film and TV discussion threads!

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

more amateur porn. well more porn in general, but specifically amateur.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 minutes ago

More niche shit!

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 14 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

A large enough userbase to support more niche topics. On Lemmy, like a lot of small communities, people tend to put the cart before the horse. They make places to share content for very niche topics but there aren't enough to warrant it. Plus sometimes you have mods in certain relatively niche groups that will remove content from their community because it is off topic, but their volume of posts is nowhere near enough for the occasional, technically off topic post to really matter. I see it in Discord servers too. Some places have more channels than users on the server. People get obsessed with categorization.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Ability to turn off inbox replies from comments.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Agree that would be nice, though I'm happy Lemmy doesn't hound you every time you get an upvote or urge you to repost. Here at least every reply is from a person.

[–] aloofPenguin@piefed.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

on piefed, you can do this for every comment. there is a little bell on the bottom right of the comment (in the web ui) which let's you turn notifications on/off

E: also, interstellar has this in the 3 dots menu on the comment

[–] Alexfire@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Same, seems like a basic thing to block the noise.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

IMO it directly contributes to the perceived argumentativeness of lemmy. Comments feel a lot more personal and direct when presented in an inbox vs on the actual thread.

On reddit I turned off replies for everything except the times I was wanting a reply.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Support from Nebula creators.

Nebula doesn't have its own comment system, so it's up to the individual creator where, if at all, they engage their viewers. Most if not all I've seen mentions reddit. Some may be on Bluesky too, but as far as I'm concerned Bluesky is just another proprietary platform that can turn into a monetization driven project.

I really want to participate in the jetlag discussions, but I don't want to log into my reddit accounts ever again. So I'm left with the nebula community here, which is better than nothing, but we're like 5 accounts that participate monthly.

[–] verifiedbyme@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This might be something to write to your favourite creators about. They want know if it isn’t brought to their attention, and I would certainly enjoy it too. Change takes time, but also effort by the early adopters.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, problem is I have no other way of contacting them than reddit, and I'm pretty sure my message will get auto-deleted and my account permabanned for trying. I don't care about the account, but a 10year old account with +80k karma does have some credibility, if I have to use that someday.

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

An active stopdrinking subreddit, and more active Sports sections.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 19 points 13 hours ago

Content and the number of users. Good lord there are so many dead boards on lemmy.

[–] Yewb@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Easy way to look at the context of a reply.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Better specialized subgroups they can actually talk with people in you don't have to listen to everybody constantly whining about the billionaire class and how they don't get a chance to do anything in their life.

[–] AskewLord@piefed.social 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

amen brother.

don't worry, those folks will invade your specailized subgroups to whine about their lives and billionaires, but at least if you mod you can ban them.

also, if you are moderately happy with your life, apparently you're a facist capitalist pig dog who is personally preventing another anonymous stranger on the internet from being happy...

[–] InterestingUsername@lemmy.ml 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

More apolitical communities

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Agreeing with you here.

Visit popular on reddit and posts will be like:

  • cat pic
  • pic of food and girl complaining
  • video of fight
  • meme about work
  • mandami
  • ice bullshit
  • dog pic
  • kids are fucking stupid
  • cat pic
  • PG video of something funny
  • pic of food of girl complaining
  • cat pic
  • Trump
  • picture of celebs boobs
  • cat pic
[–] Stormy@thelemmy.club 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Popular is based on you. So that's a personal list and problem.... r/All still works for me that's where it's not based on you.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 points 5 hours ago

I don't have a reddit account anymore. This is me as a non logged in user.

Otherwise, it'll just be 30 posts about shitposts, and then one post about pie.

[–] Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago

Ability to turn off reply notifications on specific posts.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] imvii@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Roses are red

violets are blue

I'm not the poem guy

and it's time for lunch.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

I appreciate the effort!

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 27 points 20 hours ago
[–] Toasticus@piefed.social 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Being able to clear all notifications. It's a basic-sounding feature, strangely isn't implemented.

[–] AskewLord@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago

'mark all read'.

i have that, you don't?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 16 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

the niche communities over there, replicated here, but without the number of users some are ghost towns on lemmy. with them forcing popup logins piecemeal, we may get a boost.

also people scattered way too much to other similar platforms, when one instance shutsdown which is problematic.

also some politically heavy instances ban like they would on reddit.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

More users. The scalability to accommodate more users.

Other than that, Lemmy pretty much has everything.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

more users but not more bots like redbot

[–] Jomega@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Active communities. Some of the comms for my interests technically exist, in that they get one post every third month that gets 2 upvotes. Despite everything, these communities are still thriving on Reddit. Yet for whatever reason, any attempt to replicate them here fails. Smh

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[–] tigermountain@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Better UFO/UAP communities. It's pretty barren around here as far as this topic goes.

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