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Lemmy Needs to Fix Its Community Separation Problem (popcar.bearblog.dev)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Once I thoroughly understand Lemmy's functionality through the Sublinks Re-implementation (since Rust is like Greek to me but Java I know), I want to try and put in a community tag feature that would be able to assemble a feed of communities across the Fediverse dedicated to one topic.

I may take me 6 months to a year if I commit to it, but I do think some community aggregation mechanism like that is sorely missing from Lemmy and could help distribute post load better while ensuring a userbase on non-general topics remain active.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That seems promising

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I'm not a software engineer by trade so no guarantees, but I've been wanting to improve it in some way. I still have yet to understand how Lemmy works, but from using Lemmy I've identified two big areas that could use improvement:

Community Tags: Mods being able to tag communities on topics for better aggregation of related communities.

Post Flairs: Users/Mods being able to assign a flair to a post for better client-side filtering of posts, from either a pre-defined list or freeform based on community preference.

For ActivityPub compatibility purposes, either of these could potentially be analogous to Mastodon hashtags, but I still have yet to decide on how that would work especially without it becoming tumblr level.