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The biggest problems with Lemmy right now

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  • Davy Jonesundefined

    1. Lack of granular privacy / profile control

      • “The lack of privacy controls … our profiles are public, and all our posts and comments are visible to anyone.” (lemmy.toot.pt)
      • Users cannot choose who sees their profile history, comments, or posts.

    2. Poor content discovery / lack of niche communities / limited diversity

      • “The platform lacks all the communities … There are no communities for games or music or sports or hobbies or movies or anything.” (Reddit)
      • “Not nearly enough people to cover all the niche interest communities that Reddit does.” (szmer.info)

    3. Fragmentation across instances / duplication of communities

      • “Multiple communities dedicated to the same thing across multiple instances … causes confusion …” (Popcar's Blog)
      • “There are duplicate communities: every instance seems to have their own version of each community.” (Reddit)

    4. Bad User Experience (UX) / usability issues

      • “Lemmy is losing so many potential new users because the UX sucks for the vast majority of people.” (NodeBB Community)
      • “Simply using them is confusing … accessing remote subs is a complete train wreck.” (Reddit)

    5. Performance / reliability / scaling problems

      • “Slow and unreliable” is listed among cons. (Slant)
      • “Servers go down … syncing/federation issues.” (Android Authority)

    6. Moderation, safety tools, and content-quality issues

      • “Moderation tooling is not adequate for removing illegal content from servers.” (We Distribute)
      • Users report low content quality (memes, shitposts, agenda memes) instead of high-value discussions: > “The politics is always … or it’s toxic American hyper-partisan … The memes aren’t any better.” (Reddit)

    7. Search and archive weak/incomplete

      • “Search sucks … Lemmy isn’t.” (szmer.info)
      • Lack of long-tail content archive.

    8. Over-representation of particular content types (US-news, memes, agenda posts) and low content-quality

      • Users note: heavy US-centric news, lots of meme posts, little local news/events or regional content.
      • While I didn’t find direct sources for exactly “too much US news / no local events”, the broader complaint of “lack of niche interest/hobby/sports” covers this. (Reddit)
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  • julianundefined

    Lemmy's removal of audience in posts?

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    julianundefined
    Hi Nutomic, thanks for joining the forum. While I have you, I wanted to ask you about the removal of audience from Lemmy. I believe the rationale for it was that it was not used outside of Lemmy, but both Piefed (rimu@piefed.social) and NodeBB use it. I still think the explicit use of the audience property is more helpful than not. I discovered another use case for it, although it is a bit of an edge case. Last night a user from lemmy.ca posted to activitypub@community.nodebb.org. Here, there are no followers to that group actor, so it did not federate here. However, one of the relays this site subscribes to did Announce the topic, and when it arrived here, NodeBB could not accurately determine whether the topic/post _actually belonged to activitypub@community.nodebb.org. Specifically, it is because sometimes users (on Mastodon or other sites) mention group actors but don't intend for the post to be made there. It is not a strong enough signal. But audience being explicitly set does provide that strong signal. I've updated NodeBB's code to trust the group actor if located in audience.
  • mradcliffeundefined

    My hypothesis on why Lemmy is rejecting valid activities

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    Nutomicundefined
    Actually I was wrong, there is a context so thats fine. The problem is that audience should be a simple string but you are sending an error, thats why it fails. Anyway that field is optional, so you can leave it out and put the community in to or cc instead. julian No but still the field is mandatory (mainly because that hasnt caused any problems so far).
  • Davy Jonesundefined

    Scaled sort seems broken for small communities

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    Davy Jonesundefined
    Whenever I subscribe to a small but very active community, for example lefty_news@ibbit.at, my Scaled sort feed gets flooded almost entirely by posts from that one community. I thought Scaled sort was supposed to highlight outliers across all communities to prevent a single instance from dominating the feed. Is this a bug or just how it's supposed to work?
  • julianundefined

    More reliably federating microblog responses

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    infinite love ⴳundefined
    @julian no, mastodon doesn't use salmon anymore, not since a long time ago. they switched to websub then activitypub direct delivery.on the indieweb side, salmention is an extension to webmention, where upon receiving a webmention where someone replied to you, you add that reply to your html then send a webmention up the reply chain to whoever you replied to, and they will fetch your html and find the new downstream reply, add it to *their* html, send a webmention upstream, and so on.