Here is my notes from using Lemmy:

  • There is core limitations on Lemmy which cannot be fixed even on the long term( for example finding communities via search. Results from .world is very different from the result that your instance fetch, no ability to upload media with the same ease and speed of Reddit,…etc);
  • Herd mentality is very deep on Lemmy, compared to other social media websites;
  • People seem to take disagreements in opinions personally, which is weird on it’s own;
  • Lemmy users would like to have a working cancel culture so much that they would have no problem deepthroating a dick to get it;
  • Lemmy users and with them Digg 2.0 users, hate with passion anyone who criticize their platform and is ready to go against logic to defend it;
  • Lemmy Admins and moderators seem to have a control fetish: on Reddit, it was very normal and easy to me to reach out to a mod to restore my posts or to explain himself and even discuss and change rules or reverse discussions. Yes there was some of them who also had control fetish, but in the communities which I used to use that was kind of rare. Meanwhile here there is no modbox functionality which complicates talking with mods;
  • Some Lemmy users seem to be easy to obsessive over things.

I feel there needs to be disclaimer on Lemmy servers/introduction page to warn people about negativity on the platform, but I don’t think it will ever happen.

About moderation, I feel the only outcome that will happen is bad moderation (IMO) will keep happening on the platform till either the servers hosting communities go down or till the mod become inactive.

On a side note it feels like a lot of Lemmy servers are suffering financially and might close soon, while Lemmy developers did not even try to help them by implementing third party upload functionality(Imgbox, catbox, imgur,…etc) in the app and the web front end to lighten the load on the server admins. Right now most Lemmy servers I know of are protected by Cloudflare and pictures uploaded on some servers don’t open natively(you need to click it as a normal link and pass cloudflare verification to see image).

It’s what it’s here. but I just wanted to lay out what I think about Lemmy culture, moderation and software.

  • Beep@lemmus.orgOPEnglish
    312·
    8 hours ago

    The current limitations:

    • You can’t keep it in uncompressed format(like PNG for example);
    • You can’t upload big pictures;
    • Depending on the server it might take moderate to large amount of time to upload pictures;
    • You can’t upload videos and GIFs.

    It might seem like minor problems, but it still causes a friction, compared to uploading to Reddit.

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
      15·
      8 hours ago

      These are mostly issues created by the fact that lemmy is run via self-hosting on limited hardware, rather than being run by a company with a $2 billion in annual revenue. Personally I think it’s a small price to pay to not be on Reddit.

    • Petersson@feddit.orgEnglish
      7·
      8 hours ago

      You can’t keep it in uncompressed format(like PNG for example);

      All the memes I upload are .png-files and I never had that issue.

      Big pictures depends on your instance, it’s up to the admins to set a limit.

    • Sir. Haxalot@nord.pubEnglish
      5·
      8 hours ago

      Most of those sounds like limitations of your home instance. PieFed has no problem handling PNGs and upload size / time would depend on the instance settings (and hosting I suppose).

      You’re right about the last one though, video upload support could be a lot better, but I don’t think GIFs should be an issue (unless they’re massive)