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

Onky real dislike is communities disparate across instances. /c/linux here /c/linux there /c/linix every fucking where. There should be some way for communities who want to federate, to federate?

Likes:

• Small size, which makes it better. Quality over quantity.
• That it’s not American.
• Abundance of highly technical Linux/Security/Privacy discussion (I assume, could be technobabble for all I know).

Dislikes:

• No mute button. I want to see what the pro-Russia people post in the Privacy, Degoogle, and Linux communities, but I don’t want to hear their replies when it comes to politics. Actually, maybe there should be a “block only within this community” button.
• Replies don’t ever load. I have to open the comment in an incognito the see the replies to said comment.
• Can’t select a language for my posts on this instance. And in the Australia instance I have to scroll down through 100 languages to select English. I should be able to select the languages I know in my profile and only choose from them for my post.
• Still need a Reddit account for r/manga and r/liminalspace. Probably always will.

I like it, but I need to figure out how to link to another comment from my comment in such a way that any user on any instance can follow the link without having to deal with switching the URL to their instance.

Lemmy communities are more tight-knit because of its size. That means if you go against the narrative, you’re cast out, for better or worse.

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 like that it’s small and that most people are kind.
I dislike that when there’s a wave of reddit refugees it gets kind of gross for a bit till they either calm down or leave.

Also, beans and moths. But I’m not going to say if I like or dislike them, or one over the other.

What I like:

• Being in a smaller community of friendly like-minded people.

What I dislike:

• The constant reminders people post that the world is on fire and that there is not a fucking thing I can do about it. Lemmy (or at least the instance I’m in) does not seem to have any obvious filtering features. I end up needing to take a break sometimes.

I like the people; the sense of community; public votecasting; the ethos of DIY and self-responsibility; and how most posters make the effort to make posts accessible with alt text for images and summaries for video links.

I dislike that self-deleting or mod-removing a comment also removes all the replies to that comment; that we seem to have settled on “lemmings” as the demonym; and how often video links are posted with no text synopsis or summary, not even the OP saying why they thought it was relevant to the community.

I love that we converse with real people.

i like that i get to use the voyager app which is more or less Apollo from Reddit.

i dislike that it has relatively so few users.

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.

Oh look what instance this was posted on.

I’m here for no ads, far less bad bots, and I love the tight community. I’ve made friends here over the past two years.

that is small and that is small