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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

Lemmy’s continued lack of basic moderation tools with zero indication that is going to change anytime soon is the biggest problem by far. It is also still a very opaque process to join and participate for the average user and standing up your own instance is no small feat, complete with legal minefields that many don’t even realize they are walking in to. No matter how you were engaging with the fediverse, there are huge hurdles. Even being a lurker is difficult.

I am not knocking the people who dedicate their time to making it work. Every second they give is voluntary and a service for us. But it doesn’t change the fact that we just don’t have what we need. Mastodon is the only side of the fediverse that is ready for prime time, and that’s borderline/has a lot of caveats.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (12 children)

The whole thing is very young - Lemmy is not ready for prime time, but compared to a just a few months ago it has come a long long way. I think it has a healthy user base, and just like Mastodon it will mature gradually as long as the users remain.

It will be interesting to see how groups are integrated in Mastodon - hopefully it'll motivate more cross-fertilization between Mastodon and the Threadiverse. :)

Also, I find Pixlfed to be very much ready for prime time! Peertube as well if you're a content creator interested in hosting your own content, but that's a more narrow use case.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I agree. I'm a " reddit refugee " so to speak but I think people here are jumping the gun with their expectations. Of course, Lemmy is not brand new but the actual influx of users seems to be pretty recent.

It took years for reddit to really become a more diverse site that actually appealed to a wider demographic then just tech nerds and communists, which from what I can understand is more or less what lemmy was comprised of before the huge uptick in migration here lol.

Anyways I do think people need to cool it with their expectations. More and better moderating tools being needed is in no way limited to just Lemmy either. Mastodon also has problems with admins fucking with whole instances, or just outright disappearing and leaving the ship without a captain.

Its the teething stages of the fediverse. For what its worth, its fucking amazing thats something as decentralized is getting this much play anyways.

The more people that come along and the more diversity in communties will eventually make the fediverse a better and more useful place then reddit was. It will take some time though, and a much large user base. It will come though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

communists

Were actual tankies (you know, like those on lemmygrad.ml) really that much of a part of Reddit in it's inception as well? Holly crap!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Is there a road map for Lemmy?

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