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Lack of granular privacy / profile control
- “The lack of privacy controls … our profiles are public, and all our posts and comments are visible to anyone.” (lemmy.toot.pt)
- Users cannot choose who sees their profile history, comments, or posts.
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Poor content discovery / lack of niche communities / limited diversity
- “The platform lacks all the communities … There are no communities for games or music or sports or hobbies or movies or anything.” (Reddit)
- “Not nearly enough people to cover all the niche interest communities that Reddit does.” (szmer.info)
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Fragmentation across instances / duplication of communities
- “Multiple communities dedicated to the same thing across multiple instances … causes confusion …” (Popcar’s Blog)
- “There are duplicate communities: every instance seems to have their own version of each community.” (Reddit)
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Bad User Experience (UX) / usability issues
- “Lemmy is losing so many potential new users because the UX sucks for the vast majority of people.” (NodeBB Community)
- “Simply using them is confusing … accessing remote subs is a complete train wreck.” (Reddit)
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Performance / reliability / scaling problems
- “Slow and unreliable” is listed among cons. (Slant)
- “Servers go down … syncing/federation issues.” (Android Authority)
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Moderation, safety tools, and content-quality issues
- “Moderation tooling is not adequate for removing illegal content from servers.” (We Distribute)
- Users report low content quality (memes, shitposts, agenda memes) instead of high-value discussions: > “The politics is always … or it’s toxic American hyper-partisan … The memes aren’t any better.” (Reddit)
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Search and archive weak/incomplete
- “Search sucks … Lemmy isn’t.” (szmer.info)
- Lack of long-tail content archive.
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Over-representation of particular content types (US-news, memes, agenda posts) and low content-quality
- Users note: heavy US-centric news, lots of meme posts, little local news/events or regional content.
- While I didn’t find direct sources for exactly “too much US news / no local events”, the broader complaint of “lack of niche interest/hobby/sports” covers this. (Reddit)
Point #1 tells me you don’t understand the concept of federation. Most of your source links are broken, so which old troll post did you copy + paste this from?
23 hours ago you posted saying you were leaving lemmy for instagram, why are you still here complaining?
Same question here
I think it’s more useful to take their points at their own merit, rather than factor in who said it. Who cares if they said they were leaving, or if they torture puppies in their spare time. There’s no need to make it personal - feedback is feedback. IMHO a user shouldn’t have to know about federation or how it works - if lemmy wants widespread adoption, tackling these issues will help.
This aren’t even the OPs original thoughts, they have either looked up other grievances or just copy and pasted this from some other old post. Most of the comments are old news too.
They don’t really seem interested in discussing this
Seems like OP just copy and pasted some perplexity.ai output.
I normally agree, but this feels like a troll post where op asked AI for a list of sources hating on lemmy. There’s no effort to make suggestions or start an actual conversation about it.