I’d like to invite you all to share your thoughts and ideas about Lemmy. This feedback thread is a great place to do that, as it allows for easier discussions than Github thanks to the tree-like comment structure. This is also where the community is at.
Here’s how you can participate:
- Post one top-level comment per complaint or suggestion about Lemmy.
- Reply to comments with your own ideas or links to Github issues related to the complaints.
- Be specific and constructive. Avoid vague wishes and focus on specific issues that can be fixed.
- This thread is a chance for us to not only identify the biggest pain points but also work together to find the best solutions.
By creating this periodic post, we can:
- Track progress on issues raised in previous threads.
- See how many issues have been resolved over time.
- Gauge whether the developers are responsive to user feedback.
Your input may be valuable in helping prioritize development efforts and ensuring that Lemmy continues to meet the needs of its community. Let’s work together to make Lemmy even better!
yea, but if Lemmy never adds a feature you really want, maybe we just switch to PieFed lol
the Lemmy devs are very much against merged comments
and they haven’t even seemed to notice this thread yet (Rimu did though!) and just closed a ton of issues as “won’t fix”, meanwhile Rimu responded in a similar thread for PieFed within 2 hours of it being posted https://piefed.social/comment/7335468
although they do show crossposts already and v1.0 will have multi-communities
No? It was said it shouldn’t be done in the backend, a frontend or an alternative client can still do PieFed style comment listing.
For good reason perhaps? It merges distinct communities together, making communities less distinct. Different communities can have different moderation and participation standards and norms. Merging them I feel is a bad idea.
At the moment we have a few famous examples of similar communities coexisting
All of those communities have similar rules, there’s nothing distinguishing them (!privacy@lemmy.ml for instance is different) except that mods never bothered to agree on a single place
I don’t think this is a problem. If the communities are similar enough, one will eventually win and be the bigger and main one. If they are different enough, they can continue coexisting.
Those are examples of similar communities that will probably never merge. The Android ones have been coexisting for more than 2 years now, and none of them is "winning.
This gives https://lawsofux.com/choice-overload/ to new joiners
“Where should I post? Those two communities look the same, one has more active users but the other one has more subscribers. Well, this is too confusing, guess I’ll just go back to Reddit”
merging them completely is bad yes, but the way PieFed does it is nice, they have separate headers for the comments from each community
I personally still feel like this brings the communities too close.
I could see it causing clashes for very specific communities, maybe those could be manually disabled cause I can only think of very few
or the comments could be grouped by multicommunities