Fediverse

Well Lemmy just needs more nuanced search and filter capabilities in general.

I would like to be able to say "don't show me nsfw in my normal feed." Sometimes I want to see nsfw content, but I want to specifically search for it, and I don't think Lemmy's user-level curation tools allow for that kind of richness yet.

Incidentally, I've found a structural problem in Lemmy's UI that I noticed because of the unique nature of lemmynsfw. Y'all restrict browsing topics to logged in accounts, the reasons for which I understand. But from my account on sh.itjust.works, I can't go to another instance and browse the communities they have there. I get redirected to that community's homepage, where I don't have an account, so I'm not logged in...see the issue here? I can search, but not browse, other instances while logged into my fediverse account.

A problem that existed on Reddit as well but is worse on Lemmy: There's no topic/directory structure. Here's an example I ran into here that I've cited before: Someone on some instance spun up a bunch of communities about some sports ball league. They created a nearly identical community for each team in the league complete with a nearly identical bot that posted scores in each community. I think this is a perfectly valid use case for Lemmy, this is legitimate and valid traffic that 100% deserves to be on the fediverse. I also think it's really spammy for those of us who aren't interested in sports and I'd like a convenient way to filter it out. If instances specialized in topics and there was a lemmysports.world I could personally block, that would pretty much do it...except that pretty much didn't happen. There are general purpose instances, political extremist outcast instances, lemmynsfw, and kbin. A topic/directory structure might let non-sports fans easily say "don't show me /sports/" but...nope that's not a thing. So tailoring your feed to your preferences is a Sisyphean task, and I don't immediately see a solution to this.