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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] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

show me reports I have made.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Show me a list of posts and comments I upvoted.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

That works with Boost for Lemmy, so apparantly the data is already there in the backend (and at least one frontend).

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

Post title translations.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

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

Save post as draft

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

The ability to subscribe to another instances bans.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

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

A setting for default sort order. Let's begin with the basics.

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

What? That's already in the settings.

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

Not for comments.

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

The obvious one, tags and flairs

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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

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

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)

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

Would upvote this suggestion more tan once, if I could.

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

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.

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

Is this not what the "active" sorting does?

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

You can, at least, do that externally through RSS:

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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