1. Lack of granular privacy / profile control

I mean, Lemmy is based on Reddit which you publicly discuss a topic. I’m not sure how having options to create a comment private benefits Lemmy at all unless you can give me a reason.

2. Poor content discovery / lack of niche communities / limited diversity

To be fair on Lemmy, it is still new in compassion to Reddit so there would be as fewer communities compared to Reddit. If you don’t mind being a moderator, you can always create a community which I can see some Lemmings would like to join.

3. Fragmentation across instances / duplication of communities

I won’t lie, it does confused me a bit as I tend to try at least find one that’s more active and post from there. Also, it runs by different moderators which some their decision you may not be fond of so at least you have the same topic of the community but on different instance.

8. Over-representation of particular content types (US-news, memes, agenda posts) and low content-quality

Read my opinion at point 2, think that pretty relevant. But yes, I agree there’s lot of US-Based news and lucky for me, there’s both an Lemmy instance and community for people in Britain (I’m born there) so it’s nice reading news from my own country beside how incompetent Keir Starmer is.

The best if you want is following World News community or make one for whatever country you’re in and try advertised it on Lemmy (please don’t spam it on random threads, that won’t be cool.)

What do you mean by “censorship” and what is your example of the “high-censorship instance” doing it?

What do you like better here than on Reddit?

It’s simple and doesn’t try to overwhelm you with pointless features just to pander to Techbros. Not only it is open-source and can be self-hosted, but it also part of the Fediverse. I originally heard about it when someone was talking about it on my Mastodon feed so I check it out and have a love/hate relationship with it.

What do you miss from Reddit?

Really niche subreddit on there to be honest. And while yes, I can “be the change that [I] want to see”, it takes lot of effort to:

• Posting regularly on that community (Lemmy’s version of subreddit just a FYI)
• Trying to promote it and having a thick skin that not everyone would but maybe there’s few that might be interested to giving it a try

But otherwise, I might try throw my hat to the ring and give it a try again at some point. But to be honest, I’m not too sure I would be the best moderator but who knows. Never say never.

Do you feel the culture here is genuinely different, or does it eventually drift the same way?

Yes. I find Lemmy has massive FOSS/DIY-Tech culture embedded which I find FOSS community just in general to be very hit and miss. Great for if you wanting to find FOSS project and support related to whatever Open-Source Software you are using. The major downside that is does feel like at times, a echo chamber of the same opinion and also the lack of nuances which can be frustrating. If you mention anything that isn’t FOSS or something that is very mainstreamed that most normies (and I hate using that word) likes, just expect some bitchy comments about it in the comments selection.

And also expect a lot of dry-humour and sarcasm just in general.