Then the question is, why is it when users come from reddit they don’t hang around? they don’t tell their friends, hey this is a place that’s awesome!

Some do. I would argue that most social media websites sign-ups become dormant accounts very quickly. Whether its Reddit, a large Discord server, a reddit alternative etc. The retainment rate of most social media sites is and has always been quite bad. People are fickle, or not as interested as they thought, or just sign up to have a better look. I don’t think there’s anything special about Lemmy or Piefed here, and advertising it isn’t exactly easy nor even welcome.

Does Lemmy/Piefed have the best design? No. Is it uniquely bad? Not at all. I think Reddits is pretty poor in areas, but that doesn’t seem to be an encumbrance to it.

It’s slowly declining. I don’t think it has anything to do with usability, or lack of - but simply that these platforms usually get boosted by Reddit doing a scandal rather than anything else.

Communities are organised by activity on Piefed, so you can see what people are using.

Tbh, and I plan to do this for piefed.social soon (and rimu has given me the go-ahead) - abandoned discarded communities with literally zero posts need to be purged by instances. It’s just clutter.

If a community was active and then isn’t, that’s fine, but a lot of communities are made and then never used.

It freezes a lot, the search is awful, messages just stop loading forcing a restart, verification is a joke

Too bad Matrix is just terrible.

There isn’t a decent Discord alternative rn

https://piefed.social/topics

I think you can unsubscribe from whatever topics you subscribed to here, and it should auto-unsubscribe you from those communities.

@wjs018@piefed.social See!? SEE?!

Lol, I’ve specifically directly bought this up in conversations about this. Don’t worry. I don’t think the auto-subscribing to all the communities in a topic is a good idea.

So what a new user is presented with are topics, not feeds. The only difference is that topics are handled at the instance level - by site admins - and have more visibility and populate the “Related Communities” feed. Where-as feeds are the same thing, but user-made. Click here to see them.

You can make feeds of containing specific communities on piefed that would combine all like-for-like communities.

Spamming it everywhere.

I’d note that the same phenomenon exists on Reddit. You’d be surprised how many subreddits on a site much larger are maintained purely by the power of a few posters who feed the community with posts.

I’d also argue that television and movies on piefed.social, per activity, are much more active than what you suggest there.

Absolutely fine. I can interact much better with the fediverse on here except search. I find Lemmy does search functions better currently.

It would be present on a guy’s computer and the network would block any communication with him. I think that’s as good as it gets.

No, from the way you have described it - people who have enabled a blocklist that block his account would block any communication with him and thus blacklist his child porn. But anyone else who enters the website new without any blocks up would see it.

I think you’re dead wrong there. I think that everybody hates being told what they can say and who they can talk to.

This debate has come up many times before on the fediverse. Most people do not support the site being turned into 4chan.

Many instances are run relatively stricter than other instances (such as beehaw and lemmy.blahaj) and specific communities require higher levels of moderation maintain a level of quality (particular subreddits not present on the fediverse function like this right now such as askscience, askhistorians etc).

No, it would still be present if someone wasn’t running any blocklists.

“It would be bad” and “it isn’t how it’s supposed to work” are not substantial arguments.

Yes, they are. The Fediverse is ultimately shaped by what the users want. If most of the users don’t want to lose the moderation tools because they find the outcome undesirable, then it won’t happen.

You are in a very small minority.

That is my argument. The Fediverse has to remove child-porn. Simply allowing to be filtered out by users isn’t good enough legally.

Moreover, the system you call for would degrade communities as merely being twitter hashtags. That’s simply not how this is supposed to work.

No, because the child porn would still be present. Not good enough legally.

There is no support for your ideas on the fediverse.

Yes, so you mean people can simply import other users block-lists. That’s the only difference. But if someone new arrived, and didn’t know of one - they would be met with a wall of spam and abuse.

Moreover, I’d also add that websites have a legal requirement to remove child porn.

Your system just converts communities into hashtags. It’s in opposition to what this site is.

people can already do this via blocking, but no-one regards that as sufficient.

It would effectively mean that someone new to a widely used community would potentially immediately run into spam, trolling, abuse and child porn and have to manually block a bunch of users before it looks normal.

This is just a block list system. You can already do this now.