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[–] [email protected] 89 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I would like to see recommendations for communities based on my communities. It's not trivial to solve, but discoverability isn't great right now.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Problem here is also that your instance may not know about all communities from the instances you're connected to. This could probably also be improved.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Yes, that's what I mean by not trivial, a centralized system can do analysis like this a lot easier. But even on your own instance, they could find the N users with the most overlapping subscriptions and check which communities they follow to give you recommendations.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I guess the 'simple' way of doing this would be adding tags to communities like 'art' 'hobbies' 'sport' 'football' etc. This might then let the app suggest others based on the tags you are subscribed to.

It would probably still require some AI/analytics to work out the links based on user activity in different communities/tags but I think it would make it easier to group interests and promote smaller communities.

It could also improve Lemmy visibility in Masterdon if the tags are used as hashtags or something. (Would require more work)

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Split NSFW into NSFW and NSFL.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

More options around that in general. I would love a spoiler flag that does the same blur as NSFW but isn't filtered out by the 'show NSFW' checkbox.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It would probably be better to have a more general tag system and then NSFW and NSFL could just be examples of tags.

Although NSFW really serves the extra purpose of "18+" which is important to have for legal reasons.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago (3 children)

An option to view all comments from crossposts when browsing a post. It's annoying how you can see a post that's been crossposted 5 times and wonder where the comments are.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Cross instance post/comment deletion.

Sometimes I just don't want my comments to live forever and deleting shouldn't be impossible.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I don't know, man, your comments are works of art.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
  • Reports categories based on both the community, the instance of the community + the user to reduce report noise between mod actions and admin actions.

  • Post tags, to label content within a community.

  • Better language support, clearly indicating which ones are allowed when submitting something in the language dropdown, as well as basic language detection support.

  • When the instance is using pictrs, add a section in the user's settings to see all the uploaded pictures in that account, with the ability to delete any of them.

  • Better accessibility / a11y support for uploaded images with alt-text.

  • Support for svg-based emojis

  • For mods, the ability to make a pinned post made by one of the mods editable by other mods, which would be useful for FAQs, etc.

  • The ability to subscribe/follow a specific user, not just communities.

  • Passkeys support as a 2FA method.

  • Some basic builtin automod action, such as blocking known keywords from spammers from being posted, not just showing as removed as when using the slur filter in the admin settings.

EDIT: Something I just thought of

  • A URI protocol handler to refer to communities, users, post and comments in an instance-independant way (ie: lemmy://u/[email protected], lemmy://c/[email protected], lemmy://c/[email protected]/p/1234567) or another syntax that makes more sense. That way you could let the OS redirect the query to the software of your choice, and define your home instance there.

Now there are some issues to figure out before defining the URI handler, like how to refer to a post or comment that will redirect to the appropriate one on your home instance since post and comment currently have a unique ID on each instance, which makes them hard to directly address without doing some kind of conversion.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (4 children)

The ability to see all the communities if you search them up without having to find it via lemmyverse.net and inserting the specific fedi url to the search bar. It's a crucial thing for an average Joe, no matter it's due to how the fedi protocol works.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Honestly I feel like Lenny needs flairs more than anything

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I agree. It's one of the number 1 features I miss from Reddit.

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[–] hubobes 25 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Allow communities that contain the same content but exist on different instances to show each others content as if they were one community.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That sounds like it'd be fantastic for reading but, depending on how it's implemented, hell for posting.

Lemmy already aggregates posts from communities you follow into one feed. If it allowed the creation of an arbitrary number of sub-feeds configurable by the user, that would be incredible. But every user would have to build these on their own from scratch. Great for user choice, but no communities will come bundled by default, so small communities won't get a discovery boost.

If instead there was some kind of first-class notion of a "supercommunity" offered on the server side, where it acted as a transparent view of other communities, that'd be a great visibility boost for small communities. But if you tried to post to it, which underlying community would it post to? You'd have to either designate a default community to receive posts (which would be unfair to every other community there), randomize where it goes to (which would be a quagmire, what if your post is allowed in half of the communities present but rule-breaking in the others?), burden the user with choosing (which would be hell if there are a lot), or simply make it read-only. I don't really like any of these. It also raises hairy questions about who will control which communities are and are not part of the group, how the groupings react to defeds, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Guessing fixing child porn propagation isn't the highest priority?

Make it easier for server admins to connect/link to the child porn hash databases, scripts for autobans + deletion of any content, flagging + notify to other servers etc.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Moderation tools. They need to drop literally everything else they are working on and build robust moderation tools for community owners. Nothing else matters more than this.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (6 children)

There NEEDS to be an account migration option, with not only settings but also my saved posts and comments, own posts and comments etc. If not possible, at least allow an export in the style of a gddpr dump from the likes of facebook etc. to allow import at a later time when implemented.

My instance is shutting down at the end of the month (~500 users) and there is no good way to export my data. I would not be surprised if some of the 500 get frustrated and stop with lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Here is a hopefully minor thing...

Reddit has multireddits where you can have a few that follows a certain selection of subreddits under a label. You can have multiple ones defined as well. Therefore, you can have a view for all things news (following multiple news things) without having to view those things on your main home feed (as well as any other defined topics that you can think of).

It would be nifty if such a thing could exist inside of Lemmy as well.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'd like to see more instances with 100-500 users.

I know that's a community thing, more than a Lemmy thing. I just don't feel like I have a wealth of choices. I'm still on lemmy.world and when I look around, I don't see a lot of medium-sized instances to migrate to.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Try to join an instance that is related to your geographical location or your country or state. That should result in a more even spread than what we have right now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I’d love to see more country specific instances.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Brigaders.

People with like 10 accounts that upvote themselves/downvote dissent.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (11 children)

Kbin votes are public so we can see brigades in action.

Apparently Lemmy votes are too but it's not accessible in the native interface, only from Kbin. Maybe a third party client will implement it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It's super obvious when it happens to you, but it's not obvious when you see it in the wild. It would be a great improvement to the site to just show the users who downvoted/upvoted.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Admins and mods can see this in the latest version.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (4 children)

In-line translation features for non-English communities (in my case) would be very helpful and would exceed Reddit functionality, which is something I think Lemmy should strive toward

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Integration with DeepL API like Misskey would be cool!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Not sure if this is Lemmy or the app I use, but I would like my saved content to appear in the order it was saved. It sucks when I save something old and am unable to find it when I look at my saved items.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Duplicate posts in my feed

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I need a proper controversial sort option. I want to know where the juice is.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Users that want to talk about tv shows that I watch and more places to do so

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Sort by two filters at once (top this day, controversial this week, ...)

Controversial and others are literally useless, its always the same posts

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

a huge chunk of content is based around video nowadays. so i would like to see video support

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[–] can 11 points 8 months ago

I'd love to have to specifically choose for my comment to have the mod flair rather than it always be present.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

I would like to be able to more effectively filter posts of languages i can’t understand. Using memmy i have been trying to filter posts by key word and entering common words in every language, but it’s not changed how much i scroll past, and it’s hard to determine if it’s effective at all.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Where’s the multi-lemmies support

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Saving is broken.

When showing a saved post or comment, show them in order of save instead of original post date. If I save an article, go to find it the next day, it's not there. Turns out it was sorted under 6mos ago when it was originally posted.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Allow multiple groups per post (use them like tags). This would have some interesting implications regarding moderation and the handling of replies to the said post.

Having multiple identical posts in different groups with distributed replies doesn't feel ideal to me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Having multiple identical posts in different groups with distributed replies doesn’t feel ideal to me.

I think this is actually a feature. You're essentially trying to centralize communities, but communities are decentralised just like instances.

Why do we have multiple Technology communities? Because some people might like the mods or the rules in the other community better or maybe you can't even access one of the communities because your instance is defederated from the instance with that community.

Just as one admin doesn't have monopoly on the Fediverse, no mod has monopoly on a community.

Multiple communities is a feature, not a bug.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Better default UI and general refinement

Some system to make sure communities are on sync.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Being able to block entire instances from your feed, without defederating.

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