Ask Lemmy

Multi-communities.
So you can create a list of communities over various instances and show all posts in them as if they were one.

Being able to actually migrate an account, not just settings and follows etc but your post and comment history etc. All data

Some way of linking to a post somewhere on Lemmy that will open up the post in your logged in instance of Lemmy.

Polls

Show me a list of posts and comments I upvoted.

Followong a user.

Ninja edits. A grace period where you can edit your comment without it showing it was edited. This is usually for typos and formatting mistakes that you notice right after posting your comment. A minute will do.

Back-up/failover instances for communities and users.

Every user and every admin of a community should be able to assign a failover instance in case the main instance goes down temporarily or permanently. All relevant data (posts, upvotes, settings, password hashes, mod log) would be permanently syched so you could just switch over in case of a downtime and most importantly, no content would be lost.

If you implement a feature to set the failover instance as your new main instance, that would also implicitly allow you to migrate users and communities elsewhere.

I want to be able to put alt text on an image post upload. Accessibility is cool.

I got tempbanned for 48 hours in a community recently after not noticing that a mod was objecting to some posts and had deleted a couple until after the ban went in place.

I'd kind of like to have some way to have a higher-priority indicator that a post was deleted or "message from moderator" or something. Preferably a different indicator from just "waiting regular messages", and a way to view mod warnings or messages from moderators.

Tags for posts

Lemmy does pretty much everything I want from this medium of communication. Wishlist features would be:

• A better way of linking posts, I see that there is an extenstion that fixes this issue but it would be nice for new users if this was built in
• Account migrations
• Multi Communities
• A way to assign a #tag to a community. For example If I make c/MMA then I would want every post there to federate with the tag #MMA and every post tagged #MMA to show up in c/MMA
• A way of scheduling posts within lemmy.
• Maybe a little icon that shows where things are being posted from. So if I see a user with a mastodon showing up in the feed with a formatting mistake ill know why.
• An option to follow a thread so you can be notified of all new comments even when its not your thread.
• It would be nice for instances to have a monthly server cost that tracks donations. I couldnt find any examples except reddit but something like this sitting in the sidebar would help show users how much these stuff all costs. There could be one for instances and development cost goals.

Notification whenever there's something in the mod queue of a board I moderate. At least I don't see any such notification when using Voyager.

User migration between instances.

Add an equivalent to multireddits. I miss that so much

The obvious one, tags and flairs

show me reports I have made.

More users that aren’t Americans talking about their politics would be nice.

Being able to block link posts by host. It is the one of the reasons I use mbin more than lemmy.

Auto mark reply notifications as read.

Comment type taxonomy:

-funny -informative -offtopic -redundant

Etc

Voters can select a category

Now I can browse in serious mode, funny mode, etc

Consolidation of communities with a sort of overlay.
Mods can choose to mirror the whole community. This way you can have a sort of unified community happening between instances instead of happening on each island.
Also mods can move a discussion if needed.

Just recently I have seen a three separate discussions across three different c/technology communities.

Resizeable inline images. At least some way to show them enlarged, the way one can with images that are posted. Kbin had it, and I'm sure mbin does, but the Lemmy Web UI does not, which means manually adding a link beneath the image if you want people to be able to conveniently view images full-size, particularly on touch interfaces.

I'd like to be able to mark specific top level posts as 'don't show me this again'.

Filter posts based on a keywords from the title/content.

Add technical depth by allowing communities to select a default "sort by most recent comment" like a forum. This is the key difference between ADHD content that focuses on time versus forums that focus on depth. Then find a way to integrate these deep threads into the Allfeed. Bridge the gap between forums with depth and PITA user names versus link aggregators with ADHD but recent info and broad scope.

Post flairs

Alongside others mentioned (tags/flairs, multi-communities, keyword filtering, etc.) another feature I'd like to see added/improved is notification settings.

Something like...

In account settings:

• Enable/disable all notifications.
• Enable/disable post reply notifications.
• Enable/disable comment reply notifications.

For others' posts/comments and per posts/comments:

• Enable/disable post reply notifications.
• Enable/disable comment reply notifications.

With those settings you could more easily tune out all notifications or only opt into those you'd like to see, and opt out of those you're done with (say your post/comment got popular and you've had your fill from the replies).

Unrelated to notification settings, it would also be nice to be able to block communities from the front page via the ... More menu in the default web UI.

Post title translations.

Tagging. del.icio.us style tagging. LJ style tagging. as free-form as tumblr or as structured as AO3's tagging system. any tagging system. as long as there is tagging system.

Save post as draft

Some sort of super community that are searchable (i.e. not something Clientside) and span multiple servers. The fragmentation of having the same few communities everywhere is my biggest issue here.

In general I want more and better discoverability of communities anywhere.

Some sort of automatic down-sampling feature before posting, for images, video and maybe audio.

DeltaChat has this built in to minimise file-sizes before posting.

Something like this would reduce plenty of bandwith/processor use/carbon etc. Increase speed of loading pages.

With an option to click to see the original media too.

• Ability to see and export the posts and comments I upvoted and downvoted
• Polls with configurable restrictions (ex: only allow subscribed members of the community to vote from the date the poll was published, single-choice or multiple choices, restricted to local instance)
• Tags for posts and users inside a community
• Have a table for rules, and have those rules show up when creating a report
• A lemmy:// (or fediverse://) protocol, to make linking content, users, communities, etc more universal across instances, apps, etc

I've said before, but part of my biggest gripe with Lemmy is the process of curating a decent feed. A lot of new users will see the mess of posts in All, including political extremists, an ever growing list of fetish porn communities, and bottom of the barrel shitposts, and they won't be interested in spending a couple hours blocking and subscribing to things before the feed is usable.

One way to address this is to give instance admins better tools to curate a default subscriptions and block list for their users. Allow admins to create what they think is the most accessible feed, but also allow users to customize it as they see fit.