What is something from Reddit that you want to see here on Lemmy?
What is something from Reddit that you want to see here on Lemmy?
Flushed out niche communities. There was a real push to create communities a few months ago but it seems like a lot of them haven’t been getting attention since the blackouts ended and a sizeable amount of people returned to Reddit.
It’s understandable considering there’s comparably less people. It would be harder to branch off from a gaming community to specifically a Splinter Cell community for example. That said a lot of the communities that were quickly created and seemingly abandoned aren’t super flushed out with things like a logo or general information in a sidebar which might cause people to not post there to begin with.
I feel like these communities have a real decent chance especially if they are created in larger instances due to how many people sort by all/new on Lemmy compared to Reddit.
Maybe how easy it was to find posts using a search engine on Reddit? Like Googling “How to care for cast iron pans Reddit”
I don’t think I’ll miss the avatars, awards, the Redditisms, how much weight people put into upvotes, the sorting algorithms, and so on.
That’s why I mentioned it. At least then they would show up locally for a group of people.
One thing that might help is advertising in a new-community community but afterwards it would require some extra effort to get it federated across different instances
Same here. Can’t count how many times I’ve thought, oh, I can ask online! only to remember that there likely isn’t a community here fleshed out enough to provide useful information.
For example, I’m a Scout, about to turn 18, and I have a ton of questions regarding how I can be involved in the program after I become an adult. Can’t ask reddit, and discussion related to scouting outside of Reddit is pretty limited.
Reminds me of how Reddit had “Community Engagement Ambassadors” (or w/e they were called) who were paid to just go around making low-effort engagement-farming posts on random communities like “What’s your favorite X in this game?” or “What do you think [sports team]'s greatest strength is?”.
People tend to look down on that sort of thing in retrospect, but this sort of “manufactured engagement” is likely the key factor in Reddit’s success as a platform.
I sometimes wonder if I (or just people in general) should start doing this on Lemmy as well, and whether the increased engagement would be worth the bad faith interaction.
Honestly? The only thing Lemmy and the rest of the Fediverse needs is institutional backing.
Take something simple like a game company releasing updates, changelogs, DLC announcements, and AMAs, in addition to semi-official communities or just places the developers interact with the community. Right now, for the vast majority of games, those things are happening on Twitter and Reddit, or sometimes private forums.
The Fediverse will become dominant once and only once institutions (government, business, media, etc.) start using it over centralized platforms. It will never truly take off until a Lemmy community becomes the “go-to” place for, say, discussing Paradox Interactive games, over the existing Subreddits.
A way of rewarding people for outstandingly good posts or comments, beyond just a simple upvote. I’ve seen some really great contributions on here that stand out above the run of the mill, and it would be nice to be able to give them some extra recognition, even at a cost to myself
Flairs on a community by community basis would be nice too
Flairs and automod
Yeah, people love to bitch about automod, until a neonazi troll shits all over the place when a very simple set of automod filters could have prevented anyone seeing it.
Flairs allow superior filtering, simple as that.
What I’d like is far far fewer basic links to Reddit.
It’s getting old to me.