One thing desperately needed is a method for mods/admins to check for brigading behaviour. This place (the threadiverse, not this community specifically) is crawling with more reactionary toxicity than almost anywhere I’ve ever seen, but it’s mostly cowardly ignorant people silently hammering the downvote button rather than saying out loud the thing that would get them insta-banned.

Also real blocks are needed - all we have right now is a glorified ‘mute’. If I block an asshole, not only is it because I don’t want to see their BS, but I also don’t want them to be able to see my posts & comments, at least not from that account.

Lemmy must become the free pornography capital of the internet

We should probably gate keep discussion to try keep the standards high in threads where it makes sense. But from what ive seen its already pretty good and conversation feels very human. If we got a influx from reddit id want them to adapt to lemmy culture and not come here and be redditors.

Why would we want it to be? More people is what ruins websites. A big part of why reddit sucks is the large number of idiots.

Please no

Up/Downvoting is so 2015. Instead, comment on any interesting posts, and especially the ones with zero comments. This platform is meant to be about discussion, and not just mindlessly sharing links or memes.
I, personally, am more inclined to check out a post if it has at least one (non-bot, non OP) comment.

Careful what you wish for.

if you mean all the niche communities, then sub Reddit could provide a link to a lemmy alternative but no sub Reddit allows promotion so it’s pointless.

since being banned from Reddit, i have felt there is something missing since i can’t interact in my niche communities any more sadly

money

I think the ideal would be not how to make it “like Reddit”, but how to help niche and smaller communities have more members. Unfortunately, I think the easiest way is just to get more users to Lemmy in general.

It is not just niche topics, I find quite a bit of things that are not (in my opinion) niche, yet there is very little participation in Lemmy. Take for for example Postgresql. By now it is one of the most widely used databases yet there is a minuscule number of posts and users in the related communities.

Another example. Just did a search for largest communities in Reddit… One of them is music with an estimated 38 million redditors. In Lemmy the largest two music communities seem to be 9.9K (!music@lemmy.world) and 18.9K (!music@hexbear.net). That is an astronomical difference for something that is as mainstream as it gets given the broad topic.

I think the best each one of us can do is to participate and post as often as possible in the communities we would like to see grow.

only time and reddit can do that.

Banned my 8 year old account for spam. God damn the account was not even active for 4 months why did you ban it reddit? And no replies from mods either. I liked reddit but lemmy is nice too and niche!

Why would you want that? I think of lemmy as an old message board. I think it’s better that way.

Anything that gets that big turns into a shithole. Enshitification will find a way. So just don’t.

Bigger isn’t necessarily better