I miss the abundant niche interest subs and subs that (once upon a time) had legitimately good information on everything from camping to bike repair. There were some solid academic subs too.
I don’t miss capricious powermods who control all the popular places or the administrators who do not give a single fuck or the broken ass reporting system that bans people it shouldn’t and ignores people who should definitely be banned. People game the shitty automated ban system using bots to ban anyone they wanted and the appeals process usually took days.
I once reported someone who openly admitted to doing this to get me banned and they didn’t do a damn thing, despite openly admitting he abuses botnets to manipulate the website because they were being paid to do it. He openly admitted this on their own website, nothing though. It became pretty clear that they don’t give a shit. This was before the IPO too.
On that note, I miss communities. Here on Lemmy there’s more or less one community (maybe a few due to instance grouping). On Reddit you’ll find things like streamer communities, hobby communities, and gaming guilds. None of them seem to be taking up Lemmy yet.
They’re out there, but not as big yet and more dispersed.
For example, I run !micromobility@lemmy.world - we’re still pretty small but growing and fairly active despite the small size.
The other part of it is that we all need to put effort into creating, sustaining, and growing the communities we want to exist. It didn’t happen overnight on reddit, and it will take time here too.
Love micromobility, btw, but would you call it a community (ignoring the term Lemmy uses)? Do people interact knowing each other by name? Do they interact outside of Lemmy?
That’s more of what I meant by “community”. A group that just happens to leverage Lemmy for some communications.
I miss the abundant niche interest subs and subs that (once upon a time) had legitimately good information on everything from camping to bike repair. There were some solid academic subs too.
I don’t miss capricious powermods who control all the popular places or the administrators who do not give a single fuck or the broken ass reporting system that bans people it shouldn’t and ignores people who should definitely be banned. People game the shitty automated ban system using bots to ban anyone they wanted and the appeals process usually took days.
I once reported someone who openly admitted to doing this to get me banned and they didn’t do a damn thing, despite openly admitting he abuses botnets to manipulate the website because they were being paid to do it. He openly admitted this on their own website, nothing though. It became pretty clear that they don’t give a shit. This was before the IPO too.
On that note, I miss communities. Here on Lemmy there’s more or less one community (maybe a few due to instance grouping). On Reddit you’ll find things like streamer communities, hobby communities, and gaming guilds. None of them seem to be taking up Lemmy yet.
They’re out there, but not as big yet and more dispersed.
For example, I run !micromobility@lemmy.world - we’re still pretty small but growing and fairly active despite the small size.
The other part of it is that we all need to put effort into creating, sustaining, and growing the communities we want to exist. It didn’t happen overnight on reddit, and it will take time here too.
Love micromobility, btw, but would you call it a community (ignoring the term Lemmy uses)? Do people interact knowing each other by name? Do they interact outside of Lemmy?
That’s more of what I meant by “community”. A group that just happens to leverage Lemmy for some communications.
Barely, but technically I guess so. Early days though, hopefully the community will really grow in the coming years and become a good resource.