1. 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.

  2. 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)

  3. 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)

  4. 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)

  5. Performance / reliability / scaling problems

    • “Slow and unreliable” is listed among cons. (Slant)
    • “Servers go down … syncing/federation issues.” (Android Authority)

  6. 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)

  7. Search and archive weak/incomplete

    • “Search sucks … Lemmy isn’t.” (szmer.info)
    • Lack of long-tail content archive.

  8. 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)
  • @[email protected]English
    3•12 hours ago

    1. Lack of granular privacy / profile control

    I mean, Lemmy is based on Reddit which you publicly discuss a topic. I’m not sure how having options to create a comment private benefits Lemmy at all unless you can give me a reason.

    2. Poor content discovery / lack of niche communities / limited diversity

    To be fair on Lemmy, it is still new in compassion to Reddit so there would be as fewer communities compared to Reddit. If you don’t mind being a moderator, you can always create a community which I can see some Lemmings would like to join.

    3. Fragmentation across instances / duplication of communities

    I won’t lie, it does confused me a bit as I tend to try at least find one that’s more active and post from there. Also, it runs by different moderators which some their decision you may not be fond of so at least you have the same topic of the community but on different instance.

    8. Over-representation of particular content types (US-news, memes, agenda posts) and low content-quality

    Read my opinion at point 2, think that pretty relevant. But yes, I agree there’s lot of US-Based news and lucky for me, there’s both an Lemmy instance and community for people in Britain (I’m born there) so it’s nice reading news from my own country beside how incompetent Keir Starmer is.

    The best if you want is following World News community or make one for whatever country you’re in and try advertised it on Lemmy (please don’t spam it on random threads, that won’t be cool.)