Often, its asked what the fediverse or lemmy needs more of in terms of content, but are there any specific features or functionality you really feel are lacking?
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Multi-communities.
So you can create a list of communities over various instances and show all posts in them as if they were one.This is the big one I want too. I’d love to curate topic based feeds from multiple communities so that other people could subscribe to a single coffee feed instead of 5-8 communities that they had to find themselves. I think this would be particularly useful for new people joining Lemmy, it would save a lot of time if they could just sub to a couple of multi’s and start getting content they’re interested in rather than needing to build their sub list entirely from scratch.
Yeah. Or just personalized feeds that you could share. I’m sure some instances have a great list of communities that their subscribers follow, that isn’t available on/Local. And going to /All isn’t always a good time. If there was like a /All, but maybe with some extra filters, that users could just subscribe to, that would be awesome
I always use /all, out of curiosity what’s your issue with it? I have nsfw hidden, and have been having a good time.
I like /all too, just to be clear. But sometimes I’d like to browse the equivalent of /all, just without politics. Sometimes it’s a little much and the feed could be 70%+ posts about the US election
Plus, some instances seem to have a certain “style” to them. I feel like it would be cool if there was some currated feeds that instances presented, that include content across multiple instances that fit that “style”. Would just be an easier way to explore those niche communities. It would also kinda solve the issue with having fractured communities for the same topic across multiple instances
I have this in Tesseract as “Community Groups” (works exactly like you described; browse the group as a custom feed), but I’ve neglected it for some time now. It works, but it’s kind of slow and the sorting/mixing could use some improvement.
The sorting/mixing used to be better, but Lemmy 0.19.0 removed most of the ranking specs from the API response, so I can only sort on the basics like score, number of comments, and date. :(
Some way of linking to a post somewhere on Lemmy that will open up the post in your logged in instance of Lemmy.
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Photon does that, and so does Tesseract, but it only works if you’re logged in since it relies on resolve object API call (which requires authentication)
there’s https://lemmyverse.link, but a native way of doing so would be nice.
Ultimately, using a protocol handler instead of URLs would solve that (ie: like how
mailtolinks works).Would upvote this suggestion more tan once, if I could.
I actually think some URI like
fediverse:...might be better. You know, something like themailto:coolguy.comURI that works across all supported email websites or even apps.Search the remote post URL in your search bar, it will open locally
Show me a list of posts and comments I upvoted.
That works with Boost for Lemmy, so apparantly the data is already there in the backend (and at least one frontend).
The voyager app has that feature.
The API supports that, but not all UIs do yet.
It’s on my “to do” list for my app.
Polls
Followong a user.
You can, at least, do that externally through RSS:
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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.
rather than allowing edits for invisible edits for X minutes, couldn’t your client just delay actually sending it for X minutes allowing to cancel or edit freely until that point?
Gmail allows a similar feature and it seems safer in a distributed system than relying on everyone else to respect what happens after you send a raw message and an edit right after
Implementing this like Gmail would mean doing it server-side. Handling it in the client would be more error-prone, since your device would have to have a good connection in the future, and if it doesn’t, handle retries and make sure never to double-post.
If anything, I’d love a diff of each edit vs the ability to ninja edit
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.
More users that aren’t Americans talking about their politics would be nice.
Lol I’ve had the experience of others not from my country telling me what the real politics of my country are because they know better than the people living there, apparently. No thanks.
Tags for posts
I want to be able to put alt text on an image post upload. Accessibility is cool.
It is implemented on Lemmy 0.19.4. Lemmy.world is one of the few instances still running 0.19.3
Add an equivalent to multireddits. I miss that so much
Auto mark reply notifications as read.
why? dont you want to read them?
No, I mean clicking on them and reading them doesn’t mark them as read. You have to manually click the “Mark all as read” button or individually click the “mark as read” arrow button on each of the comments.
show me reports I have made.
Being able to block link posts by host. It is the one of the reasons I use mbin more than lemmy.
Like, block/hide posts that go to specific domains? i.e hide any posts that link to Facebook?
(I develop a lemmy app and may be able to add that capability on the frontend)
Yes, for example blocking “reddit.com”, “new.reddit.com”, “old.reddit.com”…
Thanks for clarifying.
I’ll definitely add that. Will probably include a few built-ins since they have a lot of different domains: Facebook, Xhitter, Reddit, etc. Those can be toggled and then add a separate list for the user to add custom domains.
e.g. Selecting “Reddit” would filter “old.reddit, new.reddit, reddit.com, out.reddit.com, etc” Selecting “Facebook” would filter all of their main and short domains, etc.
(I usually trawl posts like this to get feature ideas lol)
Block community in the 3 dots menu. No I don’t know what that’s called. I’m using firefox if that helps. I don’t want an app thank you.
The “3 dots” menu is sometimes referred to as a “kebab menu” if the dots are vertical and a “meatballs menu” if the dots are horizontal. I think it’s weird, but I have heard it used in instructional videos before.
Maybe try a different web app? Most 3rd party Lemmy webapps are miles ahead of Lemmy-UI when it comes to user experience.
