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Flushed out niche communities. There was a real push to create communities a few months ago but it seems like a lot of them haven't been getting attention since the blackouts ended and a sizeable amount of people returned to Reddit.

It's understandable considering there's comparably less people. It would be harder to branch off from a gaming community to specifically a Splinter Cell community for example. That said a lot of the communities that were quickly created and seemingly abandoned aren't super flushed out with things like a logo or general information in a sidebar which might cause people to not post there to begin with.

I feel like these communities have a real decent chance especially if they are created in larger instances due to how many people sort by all/new on Lemmy compared to Reddit.

Maybe how easy it was to find posts on Reddit using a search engine? Like Googling "How to care for cast iron pans Reddit"

I don't think I'll miss the avatars, awards, the Redditisms, how much weight people put into upvotes, the sorting algorithms, and so on.

More comments and engagement. See too many posts with zero comments. It’s the discussion and tangents about content that kept me scrolling over there.

Reddit lets you create "multireddits" that show posts from a custom collection of subreddits. It would be cool if you could do the same for different communities, perhaps even pooling comment sections from posts with the same submission link. So you could aggregate content from all the technology/politics/whatever communities on various instances, and see combined comments on the same story from across the fediverse. Then you wouldn't have to worry so much about being on the "right" instance, and could better leverage the size of the overall community instead of having it splintered and hard to discover.

Flairs for sure. I use a couple of sports subreddits and being able to contextualize comments based on the users fandom is pretty helpful.

I want the askahistoran mods here. Imagine millions will migrate to lemmy after that

Flairs and automod

Yeah, people love to bitch about automod, until a neonazi troll shits all over the place when a very simple set of automod filters could have prevented anyone seeing it.

Flairs allow superior filtering, simple as that.

More OC porn

More content from entertainment shows as threads to explore. I love The challenge fromMTV, What we do in the shadows and other shows.. I love having discussion with others after a new episode drops to see what others thought.. I would like that here

57 million users a day

A variety of communities focused on women with regular activity

Hiding posts. Half my feed is the same stuff I've seen already. I want to be able to hide that shit.

Regex filtering, so I can add “Reddit”.

'Follow user'. Seems most of thr content management tools are thought out on a 'negative' basis. I can block a user since day one almost but can't follow them. Would love to have a 'friends' subreddit as in reddit

A way of rewarding people for outstandingly good posts or comments, beyond just a simple upvote. I've seen some really great contributions on here that stand out above the run of the mill, and it would be nice to be able to give them some extra recognition, even at a cost to myself

Flairs on a community by community basis would be nice too

I want the integration of wiki's.

The elder scrolls lore subreddit was one of my favorites, people asking hyper specific questions about the birth of the universe in skyrim was really fun.

Sam Harris subreddit. It was the only place where one could have deep philosophical discussions without people losing their minds when you say something that sounds controversial. Used to have days long conversations there about morality, AI, free will, mediation and such.

What I'd like is far far fewer basic links to Reddit.

It's getting old to me.

What Is This Thing

Everybody else from Reddit.

Nothing, if people want features, open a ticket. I want the fediverse to be the fediverse. I want its own spirit.

My los Angeles Rams sub. :(