What do you want to see more of on Lemmy?

More original content, less crap reposted via bots.

More stuff that isnt political

Just original content you don’t see anywhere else first.

More hobbies, less doomerism. I don’t need yet another site telling me that the world is fucked by capitalism but it’s be nice to have another site to tell me how to beat those boomerang guys in Zelda 2

Just decent quality content for various topics which aren't politics or tech. For the good of increasing the size of Lemmy, I think everyone ought to find a couple things they're interested in as hobbies and just dare to make content about them.

Lots of niche communities have the problem where no one posts because no one posts. At some point, you have to just pull the ripcord and start the darn thing, even if it takes a while.

For me the fragmentation of the communities cause me pain so I would love to see less fragmentation.

Just do a search for any topic and there are at least a handful of communities all with varying member counts and no idea which one is active.

I’m a programmer so I like to keep up on some different languages.

Java has the few communities but still more than two Rust has at least 10 different communities And the list goes on.

I kind of wish there was some sort of centralization and that communities would either merge or disband but I only see this getting worse.

More fun and hobby related stuff. Lemmy is depressing and hateful AF. Feels like most of the people here are afflicted by "Politics as a Personality". At least on Reddit it is pretty easy to avoid that by only subbing to hobby subs but most of those are dead on Lemmy. I switched to using mostly Reddit on my PC again and just using Lemmy on my phone since there is no good mobile reddit app anymore.

More explanation without toxicity. I think I have gotten shit on on lemmy more than I did on reddit by this point.

Don’t get me wrong. I‘m incorrect sometimes but if I see someone being confidently incorrect, I tell them and explain. And if I tell them that I find their attitude lacking and would like to learn, they get even worse.

A lot of people here are just dicks and the moderators don’t react to reports. They can tell you you‘re a fucking moron for not knowing everything and get away with it. Worse, they dogpile on you with their schoolyard bully attitude.

This is kind of a reason for me to leave if this goes on and it will keep other people from joining, hampering the growth.

I really hope this changes.

Less hate and radicalism. I’m sorry to say this because I would love Lemmy to rule over Reddit, but most headlines I get are about hate: from Elon Musk, to Apple, to any browser not being Firefox or any OS not being Linux or Android.

More activity in the hobby subs.

I wish people would actually use the writing and art ones in particular.

More sharing of hobby pictures

More personal projects by all you creative Lemmings. These are some of my favorite communities:

!woodworking@lemmy.ca

!lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works

!imadethis@lemm.ee

!whittling@sh.itjust.works

Less Elon spam. Imagine spending your time obsessing over someone you hate

More non-tech stuff

Some variety in content that is friendly and fun. Not all doom and hating on corporations. I am not advocating for corporations btw.

Askahistorian but it needs to have the same level of moderation

More communities for making friends, casual discussions, and local Lemmy meetups.

Trackballs i came here because my favourite trackball group migrated here but there is very few posts from them now.

More serious communities.

Might it be technology (no musk or apple, it's like drama, not tech) but that new litography or the board for under 20$ etc. Robots. Drones?

Biology/longevity/gerontology, no vitamine or supplements BS but studies and trials moving forward to make us live better and longer.

The Arts and people creating, whatever it might be, paintings, sketches, knitting, sewing, woodworking, statues made of clay, and all the other arts!

I guess I hate sensationalism and love sincerity & creativity <3

Cheers

More content around individual games so there feels like more of a community here. Some times its like talking into the void.

Less political respost spam from multiple bots to multiple communities at the same time. Just gets anoying to filter out after a while.

Niche content. I miss my balisong and machined pens communities. Some of them are in EDC. There's lots of tech because only tech people would use this, if we make it as easy to use then more normal people would come over. Which is good in bad because it would essentially bring the regular reddit society over again.

Active communities for the creative. Like the Affinity Apps DaVinci video editor and other apps besides Adobe Creative Suite.

Video/film production
Audio production
More activity on https://kbin.social/m/truegaming (we got a little community but would love more posts! We’re fun I swear lol)
home brewing
coffee
creative writing

Mental health and mental health related communities. Especially ones where we humor each other to cope.

Sounding.

At least Reddit had a decent community there.

God yes. I miss my cooking Subreddits. I haven't really seen too much content like that. I pretty much only read asklemmy even though I'm on kbin. I don't care for the memes and political news and it seems like that's all there is.

Modded Minecraft. The community seems to stick with Reddit. There are communities here, but not very active.

Boobies

Metal machining! I got into it a while back and love seeing what people make.

I want to see more people subscribing to and promoting their stuff on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

Also more content on 3D graphics, film, and art.

More entertainment, whether the content is original or not.

What I miss from reddit are the funny videos, memes, the crème de la crème of tiktok and youtube. It doesn't have to be original, it has to be high quality and entertaining or insightful. I miss the old r/videos before it got split into r/videos and r/publicfreakout.

Not always, but most of the time when I come back home, I want to turn off my brain, laugh and be entertained at random shit. I don't want to see random political debate, outrage, etc...

Science. I find /r/science to be one of the best subs in reddit. Not perfect, but one of the best. It would be great if those with a science background moved to lemmy.

More of the masto crowd getting involved here. We'd enjoy each other's company, and many of us probably enjoy both formats (microblog/reddit). That much conversation is basically split and mostly cut off along platform lines feels like an unnecessary failure of the fediverse.

In a way this is a bad answer as it's essentially a technological issue. Yes there are things that are possible now, including kbin, I know about them, but they don't really provide truly usable bridges between spaces. But it still irks me a great deal.

Geocaching! Yes, it's a very niche hobby that I'm obsessed with, but I really miss the discussions in that subreddit...

!geocaching@lemmy.world is still mostly me shouting into the void, although it's been getting better lately. It'd be awesome to hear other people's stories, if they're out there!

More sports related communities

I'd like to see people talk in a wide variety of communities. I've been trying to post to !malefashionadvice, and there are a handful of people upvoting there, but the only other posts are super basic questions once in a blue moon. Most posts don't get commented on, and most comments are empty one liners about how nobody should enjoy X type of clothing, rather than anything positive or engaging. I haven't found another fashion community half as active as that.

There doesn't seem to be a Jewish community here... the television community I've found is kind of active, but not really... The NYC community sees maybe one post per week...

It seems like there are plenty of niches going entirely untouched. I feel like people are less likely to discuss hobbies here unless those hobbies are focused on "nerd culture," software, etc. Most communities are just memes or something. !asklemmy seems to be 30% askreddit-type questions, 30% questions about fediverse, and 40% are like, "hey, how do you fix a broken air conditioner" or, you know... non-discussion questions, non-opinion questions, non-story questions, just "help me with this shit" or stuff you could look up in an encyclopedia.

!foodporn seems to be pretty good...