The first and third are just features that will almost certainly come eventually. No worries.

The second strikes me as a really strange expection for public social media. Social media is inherently not at all private. These are all public comments and posts intended for everyone in the world to read. If you have something you don't want to be public, any social media is the last place to post it.

Users are unable to block whole instances

Sounds like a good feature, though not exactly a 'disadvantage', without a comparison. Is the comparison Mastodon? Reddit?

Lemmy is one of the least privacy friendly service I have ever stumbled upon

Could you expand on this? Is it just the deletion problem?

There is no possibility to migrate or backup your subscribed/favorited stuff or even move it to another instance (which somehow is possible on Mastodon),

This took a while to get on Mastodon. Remember, the data's not necessarily stored in a usable format (users don't want a load of postgres in their download), and the devs need to be sure that nobody else's data will accidentally get in there.

• blocking instances: There is an issue on github, https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2397
• privacy: yeah that's one downside, can't argue with that
• migrating: a few issues on github
  • https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/506
  • https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3040

I want to add that the federation stuff is not seamless yet, at least not for my instance, it tends to have bursts of posts... When someone subs to a new instance I also get huge bursts in the New sorting rather than having them sorted by time

Users are unable to block whole instances

Much needed.

Keep in mind Lemmy is version 0 point 17. Blocking individual communities has seemingly been prioritized and I agree. I've not seen a single instance exclusively filled with communities I've felt I needed avoid, but every single instance has a few communities I'd want to block if it got federated to my home server.

There is no possibility to migrate or backup your subscribed/favorited stuff or even move it to another instance

Also much needed.

Keep in mind Lemmy is vers... Well, you know how it goes. I'm somewhat expecting both instance blocking and user migration to be sorted out down the line or by forks.

In my limited experience over the past couple of days, I have not found myself wanting to block entire instances. What I did instead was subscribe to communities of interest to me and set my profile to show only those. It's interesting that people seem to get very worked up over which instances are evil…or something? At the end of the day, they're just servers right? Or am I missing something? I wouldn't make my home at a disreputable instance, but would still subscribe to a community if it has a good vibe. Is this a mistake?

The subscribing process itself does seem rather awkward. Why there can't simply be a subscribe button and you have to do that whole search for !community@wherever dance is unclear to me.

I'm staying here but I think we need to to make an ongoing campaign to use our reddit accounts to spread the word about Lemmy. The vast majority of redditors are still unaware of our existence. So I'm basically leaving my 10 year account up and only commenting to politely let people know about lemmy and how to join. It's sad because so many people have only been on reddit for a few years or (gasp) less than a year and are naively accepting reddits bullshit because they don't understand how much better things could be, and were once upon a time.

My view is that you shouldn't shit on the devs while at the same time demanding they do more free labor for you. Lemmy is free, the ppl working on it don't get paid, like it's not a faceless corporation that exploits workers and runs ads. That's the whole point. Maybe contribute in some way instead?

Lemmy needs the option to block mirroring of content of NSFW instances seperate from the users participating in them. I need a second account now because my lemmynsfw is blocked from feddit.de for that. It is a bit of a clusterfuck.

A lot of UI bugs in the web interface - constantly refreshing post feeds, posts changing when you're commenting, momentarily showing you logged in as someone else, long delays in comments and votes being applied, wasted side space on the built-in themes, etc.

These are all reasonable feature request! I've heard that devs are working on instance banning and migrating communities between instances, but it was second hand.

Is it just because of some ad-blocker I have, or does specll checking not work in Lemmy?

If it's the latter, I'd love that addition for our clusmsier counterparts.

Lemmy is one of the least privacy friendly (unless you just use throwaways and disposable mail like you should) service I have ever stumbled upon and while it’s partially due to how federation works it’s just a fact that even reddit did that better because it was way easier to nuke your account and all traces (including nicknames in deleted comments, which is not a case on lemmy).

What do you mean by this

I agree that those are the three really big flaws that need to be fixed ASAP. Especially one and three. Without those, the federated/decentralized nature of Lemmy is hamstrung. With them, it becomes much more powerful. We need to get the devs on these flaws before Lemmy blows up more than it already has, everything else can wait imo

100% agree with those points. The whole fediverse has still those things to figure out. In Mastodon account migration is not really there, AFAIK you can basically make a copy of your followers and link your old account to the new one, but your posts and data get stuck in the old account.

The fediverse is still in beta and I'm sure developers would tackle those issues sooner or latter.

Ok, cool! Made a thing called sleepmusic AKA Zzzz... I don't know how we do this shit. Like we used to put /r/thething.

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