A few ideas from the top of my head
- Flairs that can be allowed to filter content in a community
- Major online communites (can be subreddits, or other communities) moving to Lemmy
- Reddit removing old.reddit
- Reddit banning people using VPNs (already happening, see [email protected] )
- Lemmy becoming the reference source of knowledge for a certain domain
Second point is probably crucial, but I don’t see any major subreddit wanting to move here. StarTrek is the exception more that the rule.
Think about the experience new users have.
I bring this up a lot, but among the things putting people off from sticking to Lemmy, the new user experience is just not great. I’m not talking about choosing an instance, I’m talking about the general attitude Lemmy has towards content in the feed.
I know it’s a very popular idea that if you don’t like communities or instances or users, you can block them. Unfortunately, most social media users aren’t interested in spending a couple of hours curating their feed to make it useful for them. People are coming in to a feed full of a growing number of niche porn communities, and if they can sort through that, they find heavy-handed political messages, FOSS bros telling everyone how popular software sucks, repost bots with zero discussion, and small community moderators desperately posting dozens of links into the void, hoping for bites.
At the very least, Lemmy needs a sort algorithm that is capable of keeping a page of the feed from being dominated by one community. Going further, I think we could benefit from giving instance admins the tools to curate a default feed that appeals to a wider audience of users.
Maybe then the smaller communities would have a shot at growing.
As I’ve said since the beginning, I’d like to see more diversification of opinion in the userbase. There are a LOT of people here that are the kind of activist you’d see get banned on Reddit for being hyper-aggressive and it really turns neutral- or otherwise-thinking users off. They don’t discuss, they immediately attack and flame and it’s not good for building communities around except hyper-focused ones based on those issues specifically.
I want people who know the reason they think something and don’t just have an emotional response and stick with it, then strawman everyone else in the vicinity who deviates.
As we say in the main Rules for our Community ( [email protected] ), “Not everything is a genocide, and not everyone even slightly to the right of you is a Nazi.”
I also want MUCH better Community controls such as the ability to decorate, and disable downvotes.
