What do you think would improve your Lemmy experience?

More comments, in general. Many posts have tons of upvotes but zero comments so it’s hard to engage in a conversation.
- Keep in mind that the same article often gets posted to multiple communities on multiple instances, dividing up the comment pool.
  
  I asked someone i know why they didn't join lemmy, their answer is lemmy is too fractured and they have to sub to multiple same community to get the full thing. I think it's a quirk of fediverse/ap protocol, where each instance could have and want their own community, and some instance user would like to stay in their own instance as well.
  
  Maybe there should be an option to join the various conversations together if a user wants to see more content. That sounds pretty difficult to manage, though.
- can't speak for others, but i'm mostly the quiet/introverted/lurker type..
  sometimes i just feel like i have nothing valuable to add to the conversation
  i will make an active effort to engage more tho
  
  This is a good start :) thanks for the comment/contribution
  
  If you do decide to engage, keep in mind that you're speaking into one of several identical breakout rooms rather than a giant auditorium as on Reddit.
  In real life meetings I find that smaller groups leads to better discussions.
- I save posts to check them the next day for this reason. Sorting by new gets boring pretty quick :/
  
  Sort by top - 6h. That's where the good stuff is.
  
  I sort by active, that usually helps
- That's fair. I wonder if anyone has looked into the vote to comment ratio compared to other social media platforms. I'm curious how Lemmy compares
  
  I did a little informal comparison between my posts and the ones at r/Superbowl, and whole the ratio was at least decently better at the time, I still get disappointed if I don't get a few comments on each post.
  The likes are great and all, but to me, that just kinda feels like I'm just checking off boxes. It's the most basic form of approval.
  Comments though are what really let me know making the posts are worth my time. It lets me know I'm reaching you guys enough to make you say "hey this is cool." And actual questions or you sharing something about a life experience, etc is worth way more than a hundred upvotes because it lets me know I've triggered good feelings in you from something I posted and it makes me want to post a hundred more things to do that again.
  I always make sure to thank my commenters and let them know by replying, they are doing something as important as I am by posting. Without them completing the other side of the equation, it's just me telling into the void, and it's boring for me and makes posting a chore. But by you saying literally anything positive, I know I'm having an impact on your day, hopefully in a positive way, and that encourages me to post more, making a positive feedback cycle that will keep this a good place to come.
- Yeah I've started to contribute more with comments as well. Sometimes just saying the obvious is a nice way to get the community going!
  
  Agreed! Even a small comment gets the momentum going
- Yeah, thats why i tried to leave as many comment as possible, even the low effort one. Sometime it just depend on the type of post as well.
  
  That’s my experience as well. But despite commenting on many post I also leave many without comments, so guess is more an issue on number of user.
- I do my part by providing my two cents fairly frequently. I try to balance it against not talking out of my ass too often.
  
  Same here, way to go :)
- This is why I sort by new comments
- so it’s hard to engage in a conversation.
  Have you tried asking a question related to the original post's content?
  
  Yes, I do it when I need it but I mean more in general, if I enter an empty post chances are that there’s nothing for me to say. The more comments the more probable is you have an opinion to discuss or something to add to.

More fun-type content.
I like Lemmy, but I feel constantly bombarded by depressing content and "comedy" poisoned by irony and sadness.
- Yeah, I wish there was a "happy mode" on Lemmy for when I'm already feeling a bit of existential dread. I know it's not really possible without doing expensive content scanning but I can dream.
- I've never been someone who blocks people and I've never been into filtering posts on any site/platform. But there's no shame in it here. It's VERY intended for users to have that ability and not just use it when they're being harassed. For a bit I was even considering using adblock filters to get block some keywords but that hasn't been as much of a problem lately for me. But just a few communities and accounts are responsible for most of the doom and gloom.
- Depressing content, and comments full of political extremism where even if you agree in principle, if you don't take it to quite the extent the rest of them take it, they wanna crucify you.
  Like...as much as my political opinions tend toward progressive, my time here has really gotten me to come around on why a lot of people elsewhere on the political spectrum can't stand progressives.
- Yeah this place is by far the most negative social media I've tried

I still think this is the biggest issue with lemmy right now. There should be a way for communities that are identical across instances that can connect where a post would be cross posted and connected with links to each instance it's connected with.

I'd like all of the similar communities grouped so I can sub to one. It is annoying seeing the same content posted to multiple communities on different instances. It is also harder for new users to find.
I think we would have more active larger communities if they could all be grouped as one.
For example if we have gaming@domain1 , gaming@domain2 and gaming@domain3
I would prefer it was just gaming and all three synced the content and comments. If one node was to drop all of the content and comments would be there. There would be a larger more active community and less repetition. If a new gaming@domain4 joined it would be seeded with the existing content and sync any new content from that node.
I know it doesnt work like this but I think it would be nice if it did. I know if I go to a steamdeck subreddit I will find all the news related to that. Here I need to check the three or four that I'm subscribed to which is a pain point.
- Yeah this is one of the things keeping me from using Lemmy as much. I am subscribed to multiple Steam Deck, Patient Gamer, and technology communities and they all have different levels of activity and I see a lot of duplicate posts.
  I believe this would help a lot

Instance owners ought to clean up all the unused communities that were created during the Reddit exodus by inactive users/mods only wanting to hoard the names. They're basically redirecting traffic from actual communities and into a void.
I wonder how often it happens that some user has a hobby/interest, and go search for a community for this interest. They'll find an empty community and leave without posting.
My theory is that if the dead communities didn't exist, people who actually care about the topic would create their own active communities.
- When you search for a community in lemmy, by default, the results are ordered by subscribers. If there is an active community on the topic, it will appear above any of the others, so the only way people are finding empty communities is if all of the communities are empty

I know that it's a core design feature of Lemmy and the underlying federation, but it's pretty annoying that multiple communities with the same name can exist on different instances while not necessarily following the same ruleset or even purpose.
The small user base gets even more fractured that way, a lot of posts get reposted to multiple instances as well.
So you either:
subscribe to one or two communities and miss a lot of potentially interesting conversations
subscribe to more communities and get flooded with reposts and potentially stuff you don't want to see due to a different ruleset
- You nailed my issue with the fundamental idea of lemmy. It’s like having a party at ten people’s houses with a tenth of the normal amount of guests.
  
  Some sort of user-controllable merging of community views would honestly alleviate most of this:
  Adding something like user-specific topics, e.g. allowing the user to consolidate all posts from instanceA.communityA and instanceB.communityA and even instanceA.communityB into a custom community view shouldn't be all that difficult to implement (he stated naively, having never looked at the codebase).
  A great addition would also be to allow the merging of posts, e.g. show all comments of all threads under one post where the post URL matches and/or the title matches.
  This isn't exact, since multiple communities can discuss the same topic from completely opposite viewpoints, but at least allowing the user to consolidate stuff and control it would be huge.
- Do you think that the ability to hide duplicate posts could solve this?

Somehow prevent multiple posts with the same content from showing up in my feed consecutively. Some people post to multiple communities (which is fine, if the content is relevant), but sometimes I see 3-4 identical posts by the same person in various communities, one after the other on my feed.
I've blocked some accounts who have done this excessively, but in many cases it's valid.
- Now that cross posting directly is getting more support it would be cool for Lemmy to have a setting where it marks ALL cross posts as read as soon as one of them is. That way they would be filtered out by the "show read posts" setting along with the original.
- I would love to reduce cross posted dups too

Users.

Posts from ultra niche topics I'm interested in that inspire me to do things I would not otherwise. That is what I miss most.
- I hope that the new "scaled" search helps solve this very issue

Users. Sites like reddit and communities like Lemmy get their strengths (and weaknesses, but that's ok) from the size and contributions of their populations. Lemmy doesn't have enough yet.

Searchability. Not that Reddit's is good, but it's better especially when using a search engine.
- Lemmy search improvements related to the UI or search results themselves?
  
  Different commenter here.
  I'd like 'search by post name' and 'search by keyword in discussions' features added to Jerboa UI.
  I have to switch out to Voyager to do these searches.
  I am sticking with Jerboa because it is what I started with and has a cute icon. Also the longest running lemmy-app in the Fdroid repos, The original.
  
  I guess , from an external search engine ( like G or DDG )
  
  Search results.

Lemmy needs more small communities.
- As someone who started and is extremely active in a small community, I find Lemmy actively hostile to the point where I'm considering closing up after less than a month.
  The number of indignant replies and comment-free downvotes we get inundated with continually is... disheartening.
  People want content, but actively detract from any content that doesn't cater to them. It's hard to take.
- Lemmy is the small community lmao
  
  That's not exactly what I meant. Aside from a decent Trekkie presence, I don't think we've seen smaller Reddit communities leave for Lemmy.

Image galleries in posts. Having multiple images in posts is currently extremely glitchy depending on the client, so having a central solution would be helpful.

More friendliness.
- Friendship and happy-ha-ha it's strictly prohibited!
  
  Sometimes this place makes me wonder about that.

I would like different types of nsfw tagging and categories like i don't wanna see porn but if it is a gruesome article or fucking insane story or question or pics i would like to have a way to acess them without seeing porn.

Fixing that bug where if you do something like upvote someone while typing a comment, your comment gets deleted.
Stop making "Undetermined" the default language for posts and comments, so my feed stops getting spammed by foreign language posts that didn't bother to correctly tag themselves.
Allow blocking entire instances (I think this might be in the latest update which my instance hasn't yet migrated to?).
Beyond that, the only thing I really miss from reddit is being able to open the comment thread for a post and read literally hundreds of comments. Gets a bit underwhelming seeing so many front-page posts with 1 or 2 comments.
- I'd be ok with language tagging being mandatory.

Less Linux 🫠
- Look, I installed Linux on my back hair. 😁

I like to engage in nuanced topics more than I like posting or commenting on random memes. Not necessarily to argue but to learn.
But if you post a comment in a thread that opposes the hive mind - heck even if you suggest the issue might be more complicated - you will accumulate down votes which I presume risks your comment visibility in other threads at a later time.
I wish the voting system could somehow be altered so that there's a useful/thoughtful indication separate from the "I agree/ I disagree" button.
- Oh man... you're basically speaking directly to why I made our small community (consider this a personal invite). As I said elsewhere, I find Lemmy actively hostile.
  The number of indignant replies and comment-free downvotes we get inundated with continually is… disheartening.
  People want content, but actively detract from any content that doesn’t explicitly cater to them. It’s hard to take.
  
  Right on! Subscribed and happy to see the effort
  
  Pretty cool idea, just wanted to say I agree that Reddit, most tech site comment sections, and even Lemmy unfortunately really fall into this hive mind mentality. Saw a Reddit post on first time home owner or whatever that community is, people flaming the guy because he had the audacity to have a pickup truck with an American flag decal, just so ingrained in the culture. Truck bad! America bad!

Reddit exploding again so more people are driven here. :P

More users and more niche communities

Multi-reddit-like functionality.
Users being able to group communities together themselves might also be a potential solution to the many, many posts complaining about the fragmentation of identical communities across instances.
- Indeed this would really be a game changer feature. However I don't complain about community fragmentation, I think it's great because the communities are not really identical but share the same topic, sometimes with different tone, moderation, ...

A filter for USA centric posts / community / instances

keyword filtering.

The ability to easily hide individual threads.
Like, I've seen "Wendy's wants to go to Uber style pricing", I want the ability to mark it as "read" and set jerboa or lemmy.world in my browser to "show unread" and still have the ability to view my "read" items later if I want to refer back to them or whatever.
It would drastically improve my mobile experience and greatly improve my PC experience as well.
- Along similar lines: using Jerboa, if I click on an image or link, I'd like the corresponding post to be marked as read. Sometimes I don't feel like visiting the comments but I've seen the content so it shouldn't show as unread.
  
  Interesting, mine (Jerboa application) seems to do this already. I'll have to check my settings and test out a few posts to see if it actually does though.
  EDIT: nope! Don't know what I thought I saw but it does not do that.

Better timelines. Currently there's a lot of content buried which makes it really hard to create consistent cultures.
- As in better sorting options?
  
  Yes the front page sucks no matter what sorting option you use and it's not because the posted content is shitty its just sucks in the way it presents it.
  
  To change the default for comment sorting, YES PLEASE.
  I am having to click "Top" for every single post. It's become a reflex but seriously this is crazy. It feels like I must be doing something wrong but I have looked everywhere for the setting and there isn't one. I've assumed this is just an oversight that will soon be fixed, but it never is.
  I just don't get it.

More global presence. Too US centric to my likings.
- Really?
  I see so much more non-US content here than I ever did on Reddit.
  
  On Kbin, browsing through the all tab, great majority of posts are related to US or some topic in the US.
- Join some communities on instances from other countries.

I'm on kbin, so Ernest coming back sure would be a huge boost.
- What is Ernest?
  
  The Kbin dev.

So I'm scrolling down the All feed. Bottom of first page. Click Next Page. I get another page. Some of them are the same posts as on the first page because whatever algorithm ranks them for display just ran again and they got ranked in a different order.
I see one I'm interested in. I click on it. It loads, I leave a comment. I click Back to get back out to the feed. I'm on the first page again. It didn't remember my place.
- Related- I'm in "Subscribed - New" I click a link, click Back and I'm in "Local - Active." If I cared about video games and linux this would be fine, but...

Ability to filter out political posts. I've blocked a few communities, but politics still invades things like news, memes, etc.
It's impossible to completely block it, I'm just saying hypothetically, if I could remove everything remotely political, I would.
- I like the idea. It almost needs to be a crowdsourcing effort.
  Users can tag content or something
  
  You know, there is proposal to add tags
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/rfcs/pull/4

lichess integration so every unresolvable argument can be decided by a chess duel. A bot reacts when it's called by a command (plus arguments to customize the game) and drops a link (only OP can access and play, others join as spectators). Results are then posted as a reply. It's not possible atm, but I guess lichess devs are based and won't mind a little customization on their side for that silly matter. Federating with them would be a way to null many people's bingo cards.
- Lol thats a cool idea

I can say with 100% certainty that if I earned $1 for every upvote it would significantly improve my experience. 😁

An single sided interactive mirror of Reddit's communities.
It would be lovely to have all that content directly available right here.
And to be able to discuss the content with other Lemmy users.
But without being able to discuss / send back to the Reddit users.
- This has been tried, but there's so much more reddit content that nobody can comment on it from here and start a good conversation. Plus many people came here to escape that.
  
  Fair, a lot of dumb toxicity on Reddit.
  Perhaps only syncing posts and not comments could be a good idea?
- There's an instance lemmit.online that mirrors reddit content and you can subscribe to the communities.
  Like others said, there is so much content it's hard to get conversations going, it works better to cross post interesting content to a lemmy community.
  
  Thank you! :)
  Sadly a lot of the small/niche sub Reddits I miss on Lemmy aren't synced (e.g. MysteryDungeon, ModdedMinecraft and Palworld), some exist here, but the activity on them is quite small.
  However I did find !feedthebeast@lemmit.online on there ^
  ~~Sadly it doesn't appear to play nicely with the Eternity app I use to browse Lemmy though :/~~
  It works now, guess it only syncs posts since you're subscribed though! :)
  Still appreciate the info though!
- That's basically what !reddit@lemmy.world is. There are others in the same vein though I don't know how active they are. Some of them are even automated but I feel like Lemmy hates bots more than most other social media platforms and have blocked them so communities that use bots to fill out content are largely ignored.
  
  I was more hoping on being able to read niche/small sub Reddits straight on Lemmy
  Since most of them don't exist here yet / have much less content

I'd like a feed where I can't see something again that I already scrolled past = saw.
- I know some apps have a "mark as read" button. Those can then be filtered by disabling the "show read posts" setting. But also having to hit the button each time on every post can get a bit tedious.

Ability to hide posts you've seen and aren't interesting. I usually either block the user or the community, depending on how uninteresting it is.
Not really possible, but... Have an ability to filter content by region. Removing all US content related to politics and "boring dystopia" would be a happy trade for 80%? less user activity.
- The first one is already doable to some extent. In settings you can disable "show read posts" and it'll hide every post You've already opened before.
  
  Thanks for that!

Language blocks or automatic translation More people that post content in my languages Hiding duplicate posts in stacked cards More non-Americans for a more global viewpoint

If everyone here came to life and we could all hang out every day IRL
- We aren’t alive?
  
  Wait are you not also a bot?
  
  Alive, but not living...
- Sucks we're all just fictional characters tbh
  
  Wait, so dose that mean she was real the entire time?

If I didn't get 403 errors when trying to post to groups that I'm subscribed to.

Hide post button. Not always but sometimes I see a post I'm just not interested in or are questionable and don't want to see them

Fix the cross posting issue (crossposts are not treated like a new post).
Make it so when you go to a new unknown community it won't take 5 tries to see the first posts (before it's like it's empty at best)
Faster respons times overall, I'm running my own server and it's quite slow. 20 seconds to see my inbox for example. Maybe have tweaks for different server hardware configurations/loads.
Make it possible to post hirez images, locally (downscale for other servers so it won't hog them down).
A page for administrators including users, metrics, tweaks etc.
But I love Lemmy anyways, good job!

Native peertube support. I'd loved to be post a video have it just be federated.
- Lemmy as a whole could handle media better, in my opinion. It's also difficult for devs making 3rd party apps

Probably some central home page. That has a set of communities.
I think the most common complaint from new users is that it's too complicated and "I can't find anything"
If there was just a reddit front page esque thing going on I think the barrier to entry would be lower.
- I use Kbin, so my experience is a little different, but do Lemmy instances not have default communities? If not, that seems like a pretty good addition, but if so, then I think that experience is going to be largely dictated by the individual instance you're signing up with.

a culture of providing summaries for links
fewer videos and images
ability to crosspost comments or textposts from within the fediverse
reading lists beyond just subscribed (a la "multireddits")
the ability to tag other users a la RES
user flair for munis
better mod controls (eg. make it easier to add or remove additional mods, automoderation, more streamlined reporting, federate moderation more effectively)
better control of a user's own content (eg. being able to delete posts effectively)
ninja edits for tupos
- Where are you seeing videos? Or are you talking about links to YouTube?

FREE PIZZA!

If the goddamn TLDR bot updated regularly and if it appeared on every post with an article within 5 min.

If I could cross post in Sync like I can on the website.
- Cross-posting to other communities or onto other platforms?
  
  Other communities. I'm participating in !korea@lemmy.funami.tech but we have only a few people posting there, so when I see a post in worldnews or something about Korea I like to cross post it to there.

I should be able to "hide read posts" and not have it apply to my own posts/comments in my profile.
- That's a good one, I never thought about the issue of it applying to your own content

I'd like a good Christian community
- c/Christianity would love to have you!
  
  I am subscribed, but I cannot see the posts in my feed because people keep downvote bombing them
- Have you considered making one?
  
  There is one but it's very inactive and gets downvote bombed by reddit atheists

Just general stability things. Images not loading. Comment counts appearing but not being able to load. No handling for blocked posts via direct link. No handling for hidden posts via direct link when hiding already-viewed posts. Not being able to see your own posts when hiding already-viewed posts. Upvoting or downvoting a post clears the in-progress comment box.

I feel like the web interface could be better. I would like to be able to hide posts, use keybindings to navigate, and generally the overall performance could be better. But we have third party clients, which is a huge plus!

- Lemmy has heaps of apps and a web interface. Which app are you using?

Show read posts in individual communities. Hide read post in the aggregate feed.

I need an app that allows me to swipe left or right through favorites that I organize. Could do this on reddit, still can't here.

More diverse politics stances rather than just commies and liberals
- That’s not very “owns the means of production” of you.
  But all joking aside, there’s something fundamentally socialist about the fediverse. Like it’s by design decentralized to let people own their instance.
- Oh man... you're speaking directly to why I made Actual Discussion (consider this a personal invite).
  We frequently get one-time posters coming in and flaming (or downvoting without reading) on any thread that may not agree with them, then when challenged with sources, they vanish. It's brutal. I wish we could disable certain behaviours on our instance or in the Community itself.
- Honestly I just and less politics. More diverse just means more fighting. I just want less politics in subs that are not inherently political.
  
  Me too, but every other post on lemmy is about sticking it to their parents and their beliefs. It's a bunch of teenagers who never grew out of their rebellious phase

For people to stop using downvoting as a method of disagreeing and only for content that is not appropriate.

As someone who runs a community, the ability to disable downvotes and have more customization within that Community would help a great deal.
I also wouldn't mind the ability to post something like a Delta on a comment to show a changed view or something.