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[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 3 points 32 minutes ago

It can be hard to find the right community to post a link in. Figuring out the rules and knowing who's reading them (and sometimes what they're really about) might cause someone to give up. (Especially when people complain about 'this isn't the place for that' without stating the better alternative.)

[–] Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org 26 points 13 hours ago

When you block someone, you can still see that they replied to you. I don't want to know of their existence period, that's why I'm blocking them and they shouldn't have a chance to respond to me period. It's not blocking if they can reply to me and I still see a notification that they did.

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Can't filter out non-English communities. On any given day, I could scroll through my feed and a third of them would be languages I can't read. I wish I could, but I can't.

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 1 points 50 minutes ago

Personally quite like reading things in other languages, just like a paragraph or so, and then checking my comprehension afterwards with an online translator. Only really partially works for Western European languages though!

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 hours ago

I have to block the subcommunities one by one, and then block them again and again for every other instance that hosts that sublemmy

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You can set your languages in the settings. As the warning say, make sure to keep "Undetermined" check along English

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I use the Connect app to browse Lemmy and I didn't see such a setting. I'm guessing I have to do this on desktop. I haven't logged in through there since I signed up but I'll check it out, thanks.

[–] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 35 points 16 hours ago

If a post is deleted for any reason it nukes everything, even the comments.

I can't go back and view any comments that I was replying to or that I had saved, I can only see my own comment.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 34 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Not enough video game communities. I think that was a huge part of Reddits initial success. Even to this day I still search "Problem + /reddit" on google whenever I have issues in a game. Reddit often holds the core community off a video game. It's often detrimental to a games success to have a Reddit community. Lemmy has communities for some games, but they are mostly inactive or have only 10-60 users. So don't even have the latest patch notes posted.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

There was this post 2 months ago on !newcommunities@lemmy.world to list all the video games communities: https://lemmy.world/post/19252451

Maybe you could start another one?

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

Maybe I wasn't clear. I meant community's for specific games, rather than gaming communities in general.

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 43 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

As a non-US user myself, beside the lack of participation on Lemmy, I think the kind of replies and the instant escalation to this comment, in this very thread is a great example of why Lemmy can suck, hard.

The world, exactly like the Internet, does not end at the US borders.

And yep, even though many US citizens seem to be on the verge of slicing each other throats, it doesn't mean the rest of the world should behave the same. Lemmy users should still be able to discuss freely even between people of varying opinions, or even of completely opposite opinions.

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

This is comedy gold 🤣. Things get political so fast on here

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 26 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

It's my own observation, but a lot of people on Lemmy are smug assholes, including many mods.

[–] gerbler@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago

Shockingly familiar to early days Reddit. There was a sweet spot before Reddit got as big as it is today. I can't tell you when it was but it was there somewhere.

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

How did someone describe it? Like 14y/o 4chan users with the cynicism of a 45y/o?

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 1 points 47 minutes ago

Hey wait a minute I resemble this strawman

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

That feels shockingly accurate

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 14 hours ago

Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion man.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 111 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

Not enough people around to discuss some more niche topics and hobbies.

[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Have you tried being more in to US Politics, Linux and Privacy? I've found several very vibrant communities for those here.

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[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 21 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Specific video game subs are what I miss the most. I used to be very active in r/stalker and r/teslore, r/trueSTL. There is nothing like that here that sees more than one post per month, and I'm not sure that I have the energy to commit to reviving it myself.

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[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago

When you block someone, all the subsequent comments made to that person's comment are also unable to be viewed.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 76 points 21 hours ago (8 children)

It's too fractured, posts in one community on one instance have separate comments and interaction to the same post in the same community on another instance, even if you use crossposts properly, and it clutters up your feed with multiple of the same post

[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 30 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

This is a big one. Its probably doomed to imperfection and hold out Mods who don't want to do it but I think some kind of Community Sync option would be huge.

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 59 points 21 hours ago (8 children)

Too much focus on discussing the news and politics. And rarely is it an inspiring and new perspective. (Sometimes it is, though.)

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

I don't see how you would Escape that especially this week

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 32 points 20 hours ago (9 children)

this election is among the most important ones in the history of the country. if not the most. i am also looking forward to it just being fucking done with and having other things on the feed

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

Aside from being important for the US, it could easily impact relations with other countries.

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[–] rovingnothing29@lemmy.world 34 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Its always about one of two things:

  1. Instances going down forever. - kbin, even though its not lemmy, had a more appealing UI to me and my little brother. We're on fedia now, but I only really use it to lurk when Lemmy.world won't load randomly. I don't think he even uses it at all anymore.

  2. De-federation. - Beehaw caused several other people I know IRL to go back to reddit within a week. The timing was so perfect to wreck the API boycott that I'm almost convinced the Beehaw mods work for reddit. "Everything was broken" and now lemmy is dead and gone forever in their eyes, some even assuming the whole thing is literally gone now. They're not willing to try again.

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