I can say with 100% certainty that if I earned $1 for every upvote it would significantly improve my experience. 😁
this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2024
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I feel like the web interface could be better. I would like to be able to hide posts, use keybindings to navigate, and generally the overall performance could be better. But we have third party clients, which is a huge plus!
Show read posts in individual communities. Hide read post in the aggregate feed.
The ability to easily hide individual threads.
Like, I've seen "Wendy's wants to go to Uber style pricing", I want the ability to mark it as "read" and set jerboa or lemmy.world in my browser to "show unread" and still have the ability to view my "read" items later if I want to refer back to them or whatever.
It would drastically improve my mobile experience and greatly improve my PC experience as well.
Along similar lines: using Jerboa, if I click on an image or link, I'd like the corresponding post to be marked as read. Sometimes I don't feel like visiting the comments but I've seen the content so it shouldn't show as unread.
Interesting, mine (Jerboa application) seems to do this already. I'll have to check my settings and test out a few posts to see if it actually does though.
EDIT: nope! Don't know what I thought I saw but it does not do that.
So I'm scrolling down the All feed. Bottom of first page. Click Next Page. I get another page. Some of them are the same posts as on the first page because whatever algorithm ranks them for display just ran again and they got ranked in a different order.
I see one I'm interested in. I click on it. It loads, I leave a comment. I click Back to get back out to the feed. I'm on the first page again. It didn't remember my place.
Related- I'm in "Subscribed - New" I click a link, click Back and I'm in "Local - Active." If I cared about video games and linux this would be fine, but...
More diverse politics stances rather than just commies and liberals
Oh man... you're speaking directly to why I made Actual Discussion (consider this a personal invite).
We frequently get one-time posters coming in and flaming (or downvoting without reading) on any thread that may not agree with them, then when challenged with sources, they vanish. It's brutal. I wish we could disable certain behaviours on our instance or in the Community itself.
Honestly I just and less politics. More diverse just means more fighting. I just want less politics in subs that are not inherently political.
Me too, but every other post on lemmy is about sticking it to their parents and their beliefs. It's a bunch of teenagers who never grew out of their rebellious phase
Yeah, it absolutely is. It's disappointing because I had hoped Lemmy would be a bit more working and middle class people and fewer kids. Not that their viewpoint is invalid, but reddit is filled with teenagers and I was hoping for a slightly older skew.
I'll just try to remember that, yes, they are kids, and they are currently in their rebellious phase so I can't expect much different 😅
That’s not very “owns the means of production” of you.
But all joking aside, there’s something fundamentally socialist about the fediverse. Like it’s by design decentralized to let people own their instance.
If I didn't get 403 errors when trying to post to groups that I'm subscribed to.
Image galleries in posts. Having multiple images in posts is currently extremely glitchy depending on the client, so having a central solution would be helpful.
For people to stop using downvoting as a method of disagreeing and only for content that is not appropriate.
I like to engage in nuanced topics more than I like posting or commenting on random memes. Not necessarily to argue but to learn.
But if you post a comment in a thread that opposes the hive mind - heck even if you suggest the issue might be more complicated - you will accumulate down votes which I presume risks your comment visibility in other threads at a later time.
I wish the voting system could somehow be altered so that there's a useful/thoughtful indication separate from the "I agree/ I disagree" button.
Oh man... you're basically speaking directly to why I made our small community (consider this a personal invite). As I said elsewhere, I find Lemmy actively hostile.
The number of indignant replies and comment-free downvotes we get inundated with continually is… disheartening.
People want content, but actively detract from any content that doesn’t explicitly cater to them. It’s hard to take.
Right on! Subscribed and happy to see the effort
Pretty cool idea, just wanted to say I agree that Reddit, most tech site comment sections, and even Lemmy unfortunately really fall into this hive mind mentality. Saw a Reddit post on first time home owner or whatever that community is, people flaming the guy because he had the audacity to have a pickup truck with an American flag decal, just so ingrained in the culture. Truck bad! America bad!
Lemmy needs more small communities.
As someone who started and is extremely active in a small community, I find Lemmy actively hostile to the point where I'm considering closing up after less than a month.
The number of indignant replies and comment-free downvotes we get inundated with continually is... disheartening.
People want content, but actively detract from any content that doesn't cater to them. It's hard to take.
Lemmy is the small community lmao
That's not exactly what I meant. Aside from a decent Trekkie presence, I don't think we've seen smaller Reddit communities leave for Lemmy.
Oh sorry, I knew what you meant. I was just being tongue in cheek haha. But you're right, we don't have any niche presence and that's what made reddit what it was.
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