Search. I want to search the entire Lemmy, not just ‘my’ instance.
Failing that: have Lemmy content appear in search engines.
I would like to see recommendations for communities based on my communities. It’s not trivial to solve, but discoverability isn’t great right now.
Problem here is also that your instance may not know about all communities from the instances you’re connected to. This could probably also be improved.
Yes, that’s what I mean by not trivial, a centralized system can do analysis like this a lot easier. But even on your own instance, they could find the N users with the most overlapping subscriptions and check which communities they follow to give you recommendations.
I guess the ‘simple’ way of doing this would be adding tags to communities like ‘art’ ‘hobbies’ ‘sport’ ‘football’ etc. This might then let the app suggest others based on the tags you are subscribed to.
It would probably still require some AI/analytics to work out the links based on user activity in different communities/tags but I think it would make it easier to group interests and promote smaller communities.
It could also improve Lemmy visibility in Masterdon if the tags are used as hashtags or something. (Would require more work)
Kbin lists “related magazines” which are similar communities in the fediverse. Not sure how it works but I think it may be based on hashtags like this.
Exactly this. I like how substack works and have no idea if it’s doable or not.
Split NSFW into NSFW and NSFL.
It would probably be better to have a more general tag system and then NSFW and NSFL could just be examples of tags.
Although NSFW really serves the extra purpose of “18+” which is important to have for legal reasons.
Maybe a setting for each tag for whether it qualifies as NSFW? That way you could have multiple tags that would be filtered as NSFW for different classes of content, which could enable individual users to only filter one of the tags if they only want to avoid something specific.
I’ve made a post a few days ago. I’d argue we should make a proper distinction. Adult content and NSFW isn’t the same thing. Currently everything from sex education to gore and death is the same category. I think it’s really not. NSFW tags help so you can scroll through things in an open-plan office or while commuting. Porn is porn and gore is gore. I think we shouldn’t oversimplify this but keep the nuances and have different categories. Also I’d like to not mix stuff like sex education which might be fine, and minors ask those questions all the time on Reddit with other things like fetish.
More options around that in general. I would love a spoiler flag that does the same blur as NSFW but isn’t filtered out by the ‘show NSFW’ checkbox.
Cross instance post/comment deletion.
Sometimes I just don’t want my comments to live forever and deleting shouldn’t be impossible.
Sometimes I just don’t want my comments to live forever and deleting shouldn’t be impossible.
Due to the nature of the Fediverse, this will be very difficult if not impossible to implement/enforce.
I don’t know, man, your comments are works of art.
Nah, not mine, piss takes and sarcasm mostly.
Exactly. [chef’s kiss]
The fediverse is not set up for that. Everything is public and could be saved by an instance admin
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You meant deletion? This is already implemented about as well as it can be.
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The ability to see all the communities if you search them up without having to find it via lemmyverse.net and inserting the specific fedi url to the search bar. It’s a crucial thing for an average Joe, no matter it’s due to how the fedi protocol works.
Honestly I feel like Lenny needs flairs more than anything
I agree. It’s one of the number 1 features I miss from Reddit.
An option to view all comments from crossposts when browsing a post. It’s annoying how you can see a post that’s been crossposted 5 times and wonder where the comments are.
Reading some of these is making me really appreciate @ernest.
We have this one, it’s handy. There’s a list of crossposts and how many comments each has, you can click to where the acive discussions are.
Oh hey, I had no idea ernest was back. Great to have him back.
Yeah we heard from him recently. Hopefully his health is good now.
Guessing fixing child porn propagation isn’t the highest priority?
Make it easier for server admins to connect/link to the child porn hash databases, scripts for autobans + deletion of any content, flagging + notify to other servers etc.
There NEEDS to be an account migration option, with not only settings but also my saved posts and comments, own posts and comments etc. If not possible, at least allow an export in the style of a gddpr dump from the likes of facebook etc. to allow import at a later time when implemented.
My instance is shutting down at the end of the month (~500 users) and there is no good way to export my data. I would not be surprised if some of the 500 get frustrated and stop with lemmy.
Migrating posts and comments is not possible with activitypub, as that would be rewriting history. But you could open up an issue for a user data only export, as that wouldn’t be too difficult to do.
Thanks for your reply! I looked into it and #3976 seems to be pretty much that because the “import” part of it was shot down.
I could create an issue for specifically gdpr style exports tho.
That’d be good, thx.
You mean like Mastodon ?
Also not resolved https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12423
Here is a hopefully minor thing…
Reddit has multireddits where you can have a few that follows a certain selection of subreddits under a label. You can have multiple ones defined as well. Therefore, you can have a view for all things news (following multiple news things) without having to view those things on your main home feed (as well as any other defined topics that you can think of).
It would be nifty if such a thing could exist inside of Lemmy as well.
There is this issue for it https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818
We have something like this at Kbin, including the ability to make them public and subscribe to other peoples’ public multis.
It’s really great, I hope Lemmy gets it.
Edit: here is one of mine: https://kbin.social/c/Cinema
For now at least, if you use Sync you can have multiple accounts each with their own subscriptions and settings and switch between them at will.
In-line translation features for non-English communities (in my case) would be very helpful and would exceed Reddit functionality, which is something I think Lemmy should strive toward
Yes this would be amazing!
This should really be implemented at either the browser or lemmy-ui/app level, not in the back end.
Users that want to talk about tv shows that I watch and more places to do so
Me too. And I know @pseudo@pseudo@jlai.lu as well
I do. I go to the twittoverse to hear about asian-drama but that a bubble that don’t discuss other type of tv: american show, turkish soap, telenovela, … we could so many community.
Not a technical thing, but…
Better user interactions. I know not everyone came from reddit, but there are so many reddit-like interactions across Lemmy. I’m talking about not assuming good faith and jumping down people’s throats. Low-effort comments (I’m guilty of this, too). The need to always be right and continue arguing for no reason.
It was tiring to see this on reddit over the years. But it’s sad to see how much of that behavior has made its way to Lemmy.
With federation, however, there’s not really a good way to solve this, since each instance, including self-hosted instances, determines their own moderation and “culture.” But it would be something I’d like to see improved, even i we each have to do it ourselves.
On the technical side, absolutely mod tools. It’s stunning how bad they are here. And I’m coming from reddit, where tools were poor.
I’d like to see more instances with 100-500 users.
I know that’s a community thing, more than a Lemmy thing. I just don’t feel like I have a wealth of choices. I’m still on lemmy.world and when I look around, I don’t see a lot of medium-sized instances to migrate to.
Try to join an instance that is related to your geographical location or your country or state. That should result in a more even spread than what we have right now.
I’d love to see more country specific instances.
I’ve looked. I find it hard to believe that there’s no California or SF Bay instances, but I haven’t found anything.
“be the change you want to see” and all that. Just takes 1 admin to take the initiative.
It’s a lot of work to admin an instance, though. I can understand if random people don’t want to do it. I hope one day someone does, because a California or Socal instance was the first one I looked for, too.
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Reports categories based on both the community, the instance of the community + the user to reduce report noise between mod actions and admin actions.
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Post tags, to label content within a community.
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Better language support, clearly indicating which ones are allowed when submitting something in the language dropdown, as well as basic language detection support.
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When the instance is using pictrs, add a section in the user’s settings to see all the uploaded pictures in that account, with the ability to delete any of them.
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Better accessibility / a11y support for uploaded images with alt-text.
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Support for svg-based emojis
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For mods, the ability to make a pinned post made by one of the mods editable by other mods, which would be useful for FAQs, etc.
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The ability to subscribe/follow a specific user, not just communities.
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Passkeys support as a 2FA method.
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Some basic builtin automod action, such as blocking known keywords from spammers from being posted, not just showing as removed as when using the slur filter in the admin settings.
EDIT: Something I just thought of
- A URI protocol handler to refer to communities, users, post and comments in an instance-independant way (ie:
lemmy://u/mp3@lemmy.ca,lemmy://c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml,lemmy://c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml/p/1234567) or another syntax that makes more sense. That way you could let the OS redirect the query to the software of your choice, and define your home instance there.
Now there are some issues to figure out before defining the URI handler, like how to refer to a post or comment that will redirect to the appropriate one on your home instance since post and comment currently have a unique ID on each instance, which makes them hard to directly address without doing some kind of conversion.
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