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      I love lemmy, don’t get me wrong, but I do miss the niche and specific game and music communities on there. Lemmy is mostly politics and memes at this point. All the more specific communities are very small.

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        And it would’ve been bearable, if the politics weren’t pretty much the same as on Reddit. From what I see, it has almost exactly the same libleft bias Reddit userbase has, with an (understandable) addition of interest in Linux, self-hosting and FOSS culture.

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          That’s just kinda the reality of demographics. Generally less people on the right than on the left, and those on the right are usually older, so still on Facebook. This site still over indexes with people on the left but so did Reddit when it first started.

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          my perception is that Reddit is more liberal while Lemmy is more leftist. it’s like comparing reform with revolution. of course, our individual differences would depend on the subs/communities we’ve subscribed to on top of our inherent policial tendencies

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            definitely agree with your first sentence, a lot of people (i think maybe from the usa?) conflate libertarianism/liberalism with leftism.

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    Videos. Viewing your up/downvotes. Profile posts.

    Not a feature of Reddit, but I also miss RES features: user tagging, seeing my votes on a user next to their name, advanced post filtering, and more.

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    Lengthy analytical comment debates in every trending thread. I’m not saying it’s absent, of course, but there is a distinct lack of detailed high-level discourse.

    To be fair, the same has plummeted on Reddit in recent years, but that’s the major drawcard that Lemmy will take years itself to emulate.

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      Your experience may have been different than mine, but I found that I’ve had more thoughtful, lengthy discussion on Lemmy than in the final few months on Reddit.

      Sure, the topics I viewed were more broad over there, but discussion on popular threads just get lost in 1000 comments and even trying to spark discussion with people in New got me fewer bites than here. That and the antagonstic form of debate were turnoffs for me (sadly, a bit of that did also migrate to Lemmy).

      Users here actually sort of listen to each other. Non-bot OPs will often reply to you. People will understand what you’re saying even if you have a typo, without having to dedicate the entire comment about it.

      Yes there are plenty of trolls here too, but overall my experience has been more pleasant than my 6 years on Reddit. Feel free to tell me about your experience, I’m not here just to disagree with you.

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    Better moderation tools. A lot of these features are nice to have, but there is no way Lemmy can grow without better moderation tools.

    Even with the tiny userbase, we’re having problems with spam and rule breaking content. Add more users and it’s going to be a mess.

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      Ya, I dunno why mod tools are not a priority… So many defederations could be avoided with better mod tools…

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    Wiki pages for communities. It’s a great way to collect useful information that would otherwise get lost in different posts

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    More granular moderation tools.

    But in the last dev AMA they made it clear that wasn’t a priority. Honestly it killed a large chunk of excitement I had about Lemmy. Without ways for mods to keep the communities free of shit heads the communities won’t be sustainable and will stop growing.

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    Album posts. I’d like to share related pics in one post. Not sure how to do this if it’s already there.

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        Yeah but not all clients show them properly or make it obvious that there are multiple images and allow you to swipe through all of them.

        Which is probably a client issue that could be fixed, but for now, that functionality might as well not exist for a large portion of the users.

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          I mainly use Liftoff and it looks like it should work, I put the code in, but I don’t have luck with it. I was excited to try Boost again, but that has a very bare bones post screen, so I don’t even try.

          I sometimes just use a collage maker to put them into one image, but then they’re small. In trying to build up a picture oriented community (!superbowl@lemmy.world) it stinks to not have more options to post media.

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      There will probably be a new instance every day and they will therefore never be able to actually block “memes”

      Sync supports filtering out communities containing certain words, and it works across instances. And you can block entire instances too btw. You can even block posts containing certain words btw, so if you’re fed up of say seeing M**k everywhere, you can add a filter for that too.

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      after you sign up to reddit, it will ask you to pick a few things you like from a tag cloud. it will then try and show you more of that.

      I hated that. I used to burn reddit accounts after about 2 months snd every time that part sucked because the only options were like “fashion,” “basketball,” “Game of Thrones,” and other big stuff. If it let me search for the specific subs I knew I wanted, it would be been fine. But no, it had me select random interests. Algotithm-generated content suggestions are the death of the true internet.

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      You can search for communities and subscribe to them. Then you can select “subscribed” instead of “local” or “all”

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        I think what theyre getting at is lemmy doesnt really have a good way to discover sublemmies. A lot of the subs ive found were through all when they just happened to pop up now and again rather than specifically searching for a particular topic. Thats not a very fast way to find new communities. Which you could argue reddit doesnt do a great job of it either but lemmy is in a position where it cant afford to be inefficient.

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          That’s the same way I found subreddits on reddit, how do you search for anything other than subreddit names on Reddit?

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            I found a lot of the subs I visited through other subs. i.e subs that linked to each other. These communities did that because Reddit’s search functionality and discoverability is notoriously terrible. But they got away with it because of the sheer numbers of users. I estimate that just before the digg exodus, reddit had about 30 to 40 million users and that number tripled by a year later. To put this into perspective, lemmy probably has about a milllion users currently. Maybe two if we are being generous. Theres not really enough users or history to have the word of mouth growth reddit did without a good means to introduce users to new communities. Especially given that several of them are duplicates. eg. technology

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              You have a point here. On r*ddit, people just link a sub that exists or not, no matter, by just writing r/randomsubname. Sometimes just for a joke, sometimes to share a niche sub or something.

              On lemmy linking communities is much harder so you do it if you really want to. You have to know the name and the instance and at least for me, there is no auto complete.