I mean in the main feed, as opposed to the subs/community subscriptions tab. I’d like to use it for content exploration, similar to how I would use /r/all on Reddit, but with memes filtered out.

I don’t know if this can be adjusted at the platform level, but is it possible you could put in a filter for meme posts? That is 85% of my feed, and I’d really like to minimize them as much as possible.

I come to Reddit(and now Lemmy) for discussions rather than memes, and the content I’m looking for just doesn’t appear in my feed at all really. It would be great if there was a way to filter out or diminish the quantity of those types of posts. Reddit has flair, which makes it easy to filter that way. I’m not sure if Lemmy has something comparable that would allow easy filtration like that.

Unfortunately until it’s implemented I just can’t bring myself to use Lemmy full time. It’s too chaotic content wise, but once it’s implemented I may fully switch over.

This should solve that when it gets implemented.

There’s not a good way to control what content I see. It’s essentially either “everything” or “a single community”. On Reddit, you could already have multiple communities about the same topic on Reddit, but usually one was dominant, and you had multireddits to save you if there truly are a few good related subreddits. Now on Lemmy, you multiply that problem by N instances, and subtract the multireddit feature. This situation simply must be made better somehow.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3071#issuecomment-1653885992

Lemmy needs to be easier to use. Finding and following communities is far too complicated.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3071#issuecomment-1653885992

We need to get this proposal implemented. It would pretty much solve the issue.

Community grouping. It would massively increase the available content, and make lemmy much easier to browse.

Yeah for real, this is my experience every time installing any package. Idk what the problem, but dealing with anything out of the discover store is a nightmare

Elvis with a vertical haircut

I think we need decentralized search, or rather federated search if possible. Something akin to Lemmy and kbin for search. I’m not sure what the implementation would look like, but it needs to happen I think.

As is tradition

Im using the Jerboa, official Lemmy mobile app on Android

I just decided to move here permanently myself.

I hopped over here permanently tonight. Uninstalled boost on my phone, and I made Lemmy.ml my homepage. Reddit is just too depressing right now to keep it as my default.

When you go to sign up there is a note that says you must fill an application and be approved.

I’m saying there should be an box/non-clickable banner on this page on the opposite side of the box from the join button which indicates whether a server has open registration or not. Just a simple visual tag, nothing complex.

I’m merely thinking about growing Lemmy’s popularity. Considering that there will soon be a large exodus from reddit, removing as many barriers to entry to the Lemmy platform/ecosystem will speed up adoption and more of the users leaving reddit would be likely to join Lemmy.

Any artificial barrier to entry will dissuade some portion of users from registering, regardless of how small that contingent may be. I do not want any user to be dissuaded from joining the ecosystem because there is a mandatory invite only requirement for all servers. I’d prefer for the Lemmy ecosystem to grow as fast as possible.

Decentralized social networks rate of adoption is already very slow, and we can see that from the limited userbase of Mastodon which launched 7 years ago and has approximately 4.5 million users compared to reddit’s 1.6 billion. Yes, Mastodon launched in 2016 which is much later than reddit did, since reddit launched in 2005.

However, reddit has several orders of magnitude more users with only 11 years of additional time being open.

I’d just really like to see the platform take off.