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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What would that involve? I mean, you can already have spoiler sections in post body text.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

This is available in Lemmy 0.19.5, which almost all instances use except Lemmy.world

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, user migration would be nice.

If it were a shift to simply using a keypair as the basis for identity, which would be a big change, then one could potentially transparently use any instance. That'd be neat from an instance reliability standpoint.

Keypair-based identity would also permit migrating an account from a permanently failed instance. Right now, the home instance is the authoritative source for the account. The problem with that is that if the instance goes away forever, then there's no authoritative source left to determine who controls a user account. One of the use cases that I'm worried about is a big instance going down because the admins get in a car crash or something, and it killing all the user reputation that's been built up, because nothing can be done after the permanent failure.

IIRC feddit.uk had a close call like this a while back.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yes, this is probably my single biggest one. Particularly:

opt out of those you’re done with (say your post/comment got popular and you’ve had your fill from the replies).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Already possible, I believe. At least on client level: I've blocked a lot of junk in Voyager

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think this one is already a thing as of a few months ago, but maybe its not rolled out to your instance yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Or the app they use maybe didn't implement it yet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As long as they have a version that supports it, you can flip over to the Web UI to set it, then go back to a native client, if need be.

Kbin/Mbin have supported instance blocking since forever. Dunno about piefed and sublinks.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love the Old Lemmy webiste, I wish there was a way to incorporate a RES type of extension for Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean, it's doable now, but I think that the limiting factor is just the userbase. More developers using the platform, more people interested in writing code for browser extensions.

There is a lemmy/kbin assistant extension for Firefox, which is far, far more basic than RES, but provides one critical feature that I regularly use -- being able to view a post on one's home instance. So people have done work on these.

Also, if by "Old Lemmy", you mean mlmym, that's not merely the website. It's an alternate Web UI that instances can run alongside the regular one. My home instance does so at https://old.lemmy.today/

EDIT: Your home instance does as well, at https://old.lemmy.world/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd really like for there to be an easy way to create polls.

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

There are a bunch of websites that provide polling services out there. Can link off-site.

I'd bet that they're probably more-resistant to stuffing the polls, if that's a concern, since they aren't tied to a Threadiverse identity, which is "cheap" -- someone can control many identities and that's an intended Threadiverse feature.

Another issue is that the messaging system today on the Threadiverse isn't really private, so if it's based on that and you want private polling...shrugs

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Post flairs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Detect AI prompts attached to images and not strip them from images on upload the way other EXIF data is.

Stripping EXIF location data to help keep people from being doxxed is one thing, but AI image generators try to make images with metadata to indicate that the images are AI generated, which helps avoid using them for training and lets people inspect how images are created. As of now, that gets stripped on upload. It's particularly obnoxious over in [email protected].

EDIT: Even nicer would be the option to leave EXIF location data attached, and merely warn a user at upload time about location data and provide the option to strip it, as I can certainly imagine communities where people would really like to be able to include precise location data with their images.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago
  • 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
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Ability to search Saved Posts, and RSS for them too like Reddit has.

I save a lot of handy things on Lemmy but it’s really difficult to find them again later. It also seems to sort by original post creation date instead of when I saved them so this makes it even more difficult to find later.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If anything, I'd love a diff of each edit vs the ability to ninja edit

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd love to see something similar to reddit enhancement suite.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Allow me to upvote posts and comments within search.

Super-compact mode for posts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Allow me to upvote posts and comments within search.

Tesseract and Photon both allow that :)

Maybe others, too, but I'm most familiar with those two since I've been involved in their development (and they're my daily drivers).

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

Comment type taxonomy:

-funny -informative -offtopic -redundant

Etc

Voters can select a category

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Found the Slashdotter.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Add an equivalent to multireddits. I miss that so much

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  • frontpage by default is too old (sometimes 2+ days)
  • better search
  • maybe it's just me but my tiny brain refuses to learn clicking on a title brings me to the comments and not the article. an option would be nice
  • filters based on tags
  • can mods post comments next to a title? this can be very helpful (e.g. "misleading?")
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