A platform without ads or evil corpo ownership? Yeah, I'd scared too.
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2025
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Lemmy doesnt have any proper discussions though. Its just memes. Personally i have to check reddit to actually get proper content to learn something from.
But still, Lemmy is at least not big tech!
This site is just way too diffuse and has too few real people actively participating. It is also missing some very basic things that would accelerate engagement. Right now, your profile doesnt tally your upvotes. This should be a pretty simple fix and would promote visibility into who the top contributors are and the perceived quality of their upvotes.
Organized events would also keep momentum going. I remember back when reddit had AMAs that were actually interesting and fun instead of thinly veiled opportunities to plug a recent project while talking to someone's PR manager.
The aesthetic could also use a revamp. Nothing tailored to smartphone usage (blech), but maybe something that fills the screen by default, and improves readability? Comment sections are less easy to follow than on pre-IPO reddit. Native hoverzoom would also be nice. Is there anywhere to actually have an exchange with the people running Lemmy?
no carma is a deliberate feature
makes the comments more of a sensible people talking, less of a standup show.
They could make it optional to each seperate instance in the Fediverse. I could see it being popular on Lemmy for the Dopamine hit. Less so on some of the more focused or political instances.
then, e question:
do we count to profile carma points received from no-carma instances?
If so, people from profile-carma instances would still be prone to cheap attention farming.
How it is now is perfect personaly for me: there are still discussions, less popular, more disagreeaple comments are still at the bottom, and you still can see, how controversial your opinion is. And, as i already said, this system still removes whole cast of cheap carma farmers, making interactions more meaningful on average.
Lemmy is still prettx underground, but let's be honest, it'd probably stay undergound. This site is a bunch of nerds dreaming of a future without corpo dictature on what should and what should not be. It's good to dream big, but dreaming about becoming another reddit is kinda stupid if you ask me.
You wanna make lemmy more popular? Talk about it over other social media in a good light (not just fucking tankie reddit), repost screenshots and memes from over there, etc. Profile-visible carma is just not it.
but then, lemmy is foss, you can do it yourself, if you really believe in your idea.