I like Lemmy enough that it has replaced Reddit for my general browsing.

I don’t like there is no way to get notification (subscribe to) a post to see new replies that come in after I’ve read the post for the first time…

For example, I see a post with a few replies and want to see when more replies come in. All I can do is mark it as a favorite and try to remember to check back and see if there are new replies. What I’d like to have happen is be notified when new replies come in. Without this, I almost never follow up to posts because I don’t know what/when new replies come in. This really cuts down on the usefulness of lemmy for me wrt followup information.

I love that we converse with real people.

Dislike:

• poor search engine results
• relatively small

I want it to get to a level where you find the good stuff reddit used to have. Like niche hobbies, detailed analysis, etc.

I’m doing my part, I guess

I use PieFed rather than lemmy as my default these days, but the answer is the same for both. I love that they’re community driven, community hosted federated spaces that let people find the experience they want, and that they’re strongly resistant to corporate takeover and centralisation.

What I don’t like so much is the increase in debate bro type folk that are slowly drifting over from reddit. Of course, they’re at least partly dealt with by the things I mentioned earlier, but still, I wish we could undo some of the in your face debating attitudes that people have been trained to default to by toxic social media

I FUCKING LOVE IT HERE. Only complaint: editing a PM/DM/Post exposes edit date but not edit history - seriously borks threads on a consistent basis.

I love the vibe most of all. There are some assholes occasionally. Especially whenever theres a wave if reddit migration. But mostly people are nice.

I love how I can identify so many peoples names to the point that i basically know them, just as I’m sure some can recognise mine.

I like that it’s not drowning in terrible opinions.

Theres a general left wing bias that i like.

Everyone is in on everything. Lemmy is small enough that nothing goes unnoticed. Genuinely feels like a village.

Just the very nature of forum based social media like reddit I always liked.

Theres a sense of loyalty and appreciation to the developers, admins, mods etc. This is the peoples place and those who facilitate it with their money and efforts are appreciated. I myself feel a sense of loyalty to dbzer0, but even sopuli.xyz and literature.cafe

I dont like how a couple of bots or assholes can massively influence the culture. A few early downvotes can kill a post for example.

I like that it’s decentralized, FOSS and that anyone can host their own instance. I like that I don’t have to give my personal information to create an account.

What I don’t like which is not about software but more community is that there is censorship of opinions which creates echo chambers, I’d really like to hear diverse opinions from all sides. Also how it’s focused on world being doom and gloom, every time I get on lemmy frontpage I get depressed, luckily I filter communities and only see communities that I like so I can avoid that.

But all in all I like lemmy and mostly can ignore it’s cons and focus on it’s pros even though I’ve more talked about it’s cons oopsie xD

The repetitive nature of communities across different instances is very irritating. I block one community, only to immediately run into the exact same post from the same spam account in the same community on a different instance.

I get that allowing anyone to host an instance removes some problems that a centralized platform like Reddit has, but these new issues are no better. Plus, unless I missed something, Lemmy is still pretty centralized. Lemmy.world still dwarfs other instances, right?