Just wanted to ask: what do you not like in Lemmy (Lemmy as communities, server and clients)?
This is just a way for me to get some feedback from the community.
Video posts are something I kind of miss, particularly for gaming communities to share clips of gameplay
Diversity in its population
What do you mean by diversity?
Less techies probably lol. I’m one myself and kinda want to see more diverse posts too 😁
People who use distributions other than Arch presumably.
I actually made a bunch of feature requests, there are a few reddit enhancement suite features i wanted but what i want most is the ability to incrementally read the comments of a post by marking comments as read (really useful if there is a subject i am particularly interested in or is particularly meaningful).
Like others have said, it’s the niche communities. I still go to reddit some times because of small subreddits like r/progressionfantasy, or the subreddits for a book series.
I still miss the r/imaginary… network of subreddits but I’m not going to use reddit
IIRC there was a dedicated single user curating a bunch of these… but they all disappeared when fmhy.ml was seized by the govt 😭
I’m now off to one of those fediverse explorer sites to find where these have moved to 😁
I feel like the main lacking point would be a small user base. I’m new to Lemmy as of a few months ago since the Reddit API changes. I wish more people knew of the other options out there other than Reddit. It’s really only a minority of people who left and jumped to Lemmy.
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individual option to block instances on your own account
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something similar to what reddit calls multireddits which are basically custom feed collections that allows you to save certain sibreddits to it to only have a feed of specific subreddits you can open up and browse
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Lemmy lacks luscious long licorices. Luscious long licorices are lacked by lemmy. What would lemmy lack if it didn’t lack luscious long licorices?
Have federation happen on the instance level. What I mean is, the admin should be able to federate with the instance itself and all its communities.
Let me group up custom lists of communities, just like custom subreddits on Reddit
This is my number one. I hate having everything in one subscription list, battling each other for my attention. My local communities can’t stand up to lemmyworld or beehaw communities in my sub list, and “local” puts all local communities in, most of which don’t interest me.
That’s just one example though, and it’s not all about instances. News about energy policy can’t battle with world politics, so keeping the two in separate lists is important to me even though they are both remote sets of communities for me.
Search
Yes, that’s a workaround, but I generally want to search within a community for older posts, and going to a separate service sucks.
I use that site to find new communities, which is fine occasionally, but it shouldn’t be expected to be part of the normal workflow.
Dunno if this has been mentioned before, but I’d like a way to favourite a community, so that all its post will show up on the main page feed until I’ve seen them. Because I miss out on posts on some of the smaller communities I follow unless I go to that community’s page.
That way I’d be able to see 'em and try and make those smaller instances grow by commenting and upvoting.
I don’t like pages, I want infinity scrolling. I want bigger previews on images without having to open the thread.
To name a few big ones for me:
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spoilers
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flairs/tagging
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a better mod portal
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automod bots
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database stability
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wiki support
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saved posts being in the ORDER I SAVED THEM not the order they were posted. That’s basic functionality man!
ITT:
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Following users
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better crossposting
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more users ( I think the other issues cause this one a bit)
Tagging other users already is a feature in Connect, spoilers (in textbodies) work on all apps that I used and bots are getting made right now and it is only a matter of time until they are as ubiquitous as on reddit.
Not tagging other users, tagging posts, flairs. Spoilers via markdown yes, but no tag to mark something as a show spoiler.
Spoilers work, do it like this:
Some visible text
And the text you want hidden
::: spoiler Some visible text And the text you want hidden :::Works on web and on Jerboa.
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Yes, again, thay is not the spoiler I’m talking about, I’m talking about a post thay specifically has a built in spoiler tag, like the NSFW tag
Yeah I agree, that would be nice. It goes along with moderation tools I think.
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- Filtering posts with keywords and hiding posts manually.
Certain topics cause unnecessary anxiety, on reddit they were easy to avoid with RES. Here the only way to remove a post from haunting you from your timeline is to block the poster, which is bit overkill.
Could you explain a little bit this concept please? This will go to write a document that describes the next milestones for Lemmy.
Someone posted a dumb meme to a /c that you subscribe to. It keeps getting comments and votes. If you go to https://lemmy.world/?dataType=Comment&listingType=Subscribed&page=1&sort=New (I think that’s the right link for you), 2/3 of the comments on the page are to that post you just want to ignore and be done with.
How do you get that post and its comments out of your feed (active posts and new comments) without blocking the user who created the post?
- Filtering posts with keywords
User can specify keywords that are used to filter and exclude the users own subscription timeline from posts that include the words in the post-topic.
For example: User adds the keyword “died” in the settings to a filter list. The topic “Great actor of movie X has died” will now not appear in the feeds. There also could be a more advanced version of this that allows to assign keywords to different communities.
- Hiding posts manually
In every post, the tools in the “three dot overflow”-menu should include an option for “Hide post”, which makes that post disappear from the feed.
A design that scales. Forwarding every like, post and comment to all federated servers will not scale well.
