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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ability to view posts that I upvoted

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

This. On r*ddit I used to upvote posts, and save really important ones to organise them. Maybe even some way to organize bookmarked posts.

Don't know if that's a client side thing or not.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Probably need to be client side tbh but when someone mass posts the same article across multiple communities and instances I only see it once with a list of where its posted if you go into it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, one post and links to the different comment sections below it

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If they use the crosspost feature this should already happen. Of course no apps support that yet to my knowledge.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Instance blocking/defederate on a user level

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This PR in lemmy will implement the issue PR #3869. Looking at the thread, the devs have completed the work and waiting for successful testing.

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

Oh wow…. This is so nice to see. Thanks for the heads-up!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This. So much this. I’m about to figure out how to make open server just do I can block all the hentai and furry porn servers.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • Low hanging: user defined multi-communities
  • Hard (high hanging fruit): allow users to look and behave like communities so that we can follow each other (and masto users too ) as we would normal communities, where each user has their own (or multiple!) “community” they can populate and moderate as they see fit.
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As long as this is opt-in, I'm okay with this. I personally don't want to have followers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Follow requests! A standard feature from the microblogging side all other software already support.

In fact, all follows in ActivityPub are follow requests by default (normal follows are simulated by just auto-accepting all follows serverside). That's why when servers are overloaded you end up with the "subscription pending" message, as the Accept/Follow activity never reaches your server.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can follow people and do regular posts on kbin in case you didn't know yet.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

add some damn good mod tools. lemmy will die if the user base grows and the mod tools do not.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Less community repetition. I feel like it spreads out potential members and makes each community smaller with repetitive content. I wish communities could be more linked so they share content and members.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've had a thought, what if clients allowed users to mix and match communities so that they show as one? You could bundle all the gaming communities into one for instance. You'd still see where each publication originates from but they would appear in the same feed

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Alt text for blind people in images, a la Mastodon.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The ability to easily link to a specific post or comment in a way that works across instances/clients, like you can with communities.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd get rid of the bots that repost content and comments from Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Support for user blocking by instance.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Link communies. When two communies are linked they act like one with multiple names distributed on multiple instances. This would solve the dublicate communities on different instance problem.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hide read posts only from the frontage. There should be an option to have them visible in their community itself to refer back later.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ability to migrate account or a community to another instance.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Some sort of organizational hierarchy or tagging system so the user could block wide swaths of communities like sports, celebrities, music, or whatever they aren’t interested in; without having to block each community individually.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd make the culture more like the rest of the fediverse, instead of reddit like as it is now. Too many ex reddit folk have brought the bad parts of reddit culture with them

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, the feeling of chatting with considerate adults is slipping. I've started doing the Reddit thing of typing out a comment and then hitting the cancel button because I didn't want to deal with contrarians.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I totally agree. Lemmy had an awesome, friendly helpful vibe and the reddit exodus had a noticeably negative affect on the nature of the discourse. It became more nasty, more petulant more quipy, and more angsty. Now that people are here, I'm not at all saying they should leave, but maybe read the room and try to be a part of something better. The internet doesn't have to be a hostile place.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

The pie in the sky answer is “get all my friends and relations to use it.”

More realistically: I wish I could follow or friend a person here.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want a consistent identity on the internet, where all of my fediverse accounts are linked

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’sa bigger problem than lemmy. But also, yes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also a very precarious idea imo. It makes an easy target for social engineering, targeted marketing, etc.

I assume if a nefarious actor made an instance to sell behavioral data, they would have a field day if every account of a person was linked.

Edit: The idea in itself is good. For that we need to make assembly, sale and possession of behavioral data illegal.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Your own posts should show in your profile even you have Show Read Posts off. And there should be an easy visible toggle while browsing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd like the "show context" link to work. Maybe that's just me? It used to work but no longer. It'd be helpful when I go to a post from the reply notification thing. (viewing this on the web in Firefox)

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

Increased participation in software development, UI design, UX design, documentation and guides (including wiki and join-lemmy).

To make all the other things become reality :]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This is a common wish in F/OSS circles ... and then the owners/maintainers of F/OSS projects make the process of contributing anything convoluted, difficult, and emotionally draining (via a whole lot of bikeshedding)^1^.

When F/OSS projects make contribution culture a thing, they'll get contributors. Until then ... ugh. No. They won't.


^1^ Obligatory example: on a particular F/OSS game server a specific command by default gave this massive wave of output that was, for an average user, 95% useless. It listed things the user couldn't participate in. AND it listed the small number of things the user could participate in first, ensuring it scrolled right off the screen before it could get spotted. A user with actual UX design experience posted a long and detailed critique, explaining the problems, explaining why the available suggested solutions were flawed, and made a concrete suggestion for keeping existing behaviour with a simple /all switch on the command while making the default useful for 95% of users. From a quick glance at the code base myself, I figured it would take the maintainers two hours tops to fully implement and test the recommended change. It was a trivial change to metadata in the command processor, not even an actual code change.

And she got "well akshuallied" to death. A bunch of programmers with zero knowledge of UX, no perceivable talent for tasteful design, and egos that got bruised by the suggestion that their output wasn't perfect dumped on this poor woman (the fact she was a woman being, I suspect, a major factor) to the point she's sworn never to get involved in suggesting anything for a F/OSS project ever again. Because F/OSS communities are just that toxic.

So solve that problem and you'll get UI and UX designers galore. And maybe get people who'll document too, provided you don't tell them (literally!) that their contributions matter less than code. (Because nothing motivates contribution better than telling people doing the contributions that they don't matter!)

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

Lemmy has an extremism problem. Partly because of the lack of moderation tools (which is why a lot of mods supposedly left reddit in the first place) and partly because of the lack of moderation, or straight up complacency of some mods.

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

Federated communities, so that if an instance goes down, the communities it's hosting don't just stop working for everyone else.

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

The ability to hide some communities I mod from the All feed.

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

There should be "Last 3 hours" in the drop down menu. 6 hours just shows you stuff you saw 5 hours ago, and 1 hour shows like 3 posts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

personal user sort method for post replies

eg: users I upvote more get higher placement in threads when I sort them this way. This would replicate 'algorithms' used on other sites.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Removal of hexbear and lemmygrad. Perhaps they should piss off to their own website and let people with working brains shitpost in peace

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is probably not 100% lemmy's fault but interoperability with other branches of the fediverse could be better. For example, i can create posts and subscribe to lemmy communities from my pleroma instance but federation of posts and discussions from lemmy to pleroma is somewhere inbeteween "unreliable" and "nonexistant", depending on the moon phase or whatever. Sorting that stuff out would be crucial for making lemmy communities a real fediverse-spanning, platform-agnostic thing.

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