Asklemmy

• Order comments by hot/new/votes
• make it really obvious how to sign-up and sign-in
• linking between feddit should not open an in-app browser
• highlight comments/posts your account has made
• allow us to block all NSFW posts from the all feed
• allow us to post GIFs from the Google keyboard

I'm mostly waiting for marking posts as read as you scroll by and hiding read posts (but only in your feed). I think this is especially important with the federated content that might come in later than when I "scrolled past" the point in time it would appear in my feed.

Being able to jump back a page without snapping to the top is the only issue I have with the PWA set up I’ve got. Otherwise it’s great as is.

For web: better theming, for app: i18n, for both: much smoother subscription to other instances.

keyword filters, so you can avoid posts about "trump" or "hitler" and other things that annoy you

Multi-lemmy. I really miss having my custom feeds made with the multi reddit tool,.

Off the top of my head…

• Easy user following
• Auto markdown
• Download image/video
• Share as image

1. Subscribe to whole instances, not just individual communities, that are not Federated by the instance my account is logged into.

2. Easily block communities from the ALL feed, without 3 or 4 clicks

I haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but the biggest feature for me would be an automatic redirect to your current instance if you click on a fedi link to another instance

It's annoying when someone links a post from another instance, and I click the link but I can't interact since I'm not logged in on that URL

Basically, if you're on one instance and click on a link to a post from another instance, it should open that post on your current instance. The desktop version of Lemmy needs this too.

This is really my biggest point of contention with the fediverse atm. Needs to be easier to interact across instances without copying, pasting, editing, or typing in URLs

I'd like some tablet/large screen optimizations now that I have a Pixel Fold! Sync for Reddit and Infinity are example apps that do it right in my opinion

User option to block Lemmy server/instance

• Ability for a user to essentially block an entire servers posts. I don’t want to rely on my admin to block a server. I want the option to block all posts and the option to block all posts and comments. (Block or hide is fine)

Quick Scroll

• Button to scroll to next top comment that can be held to scroll to previous top comment (like apollo has)

Mute words

• Ability to block/mute words so for example i can block all communities with the word meme in it because i want to browse All to find new communities but i never want to see meme communities/posts.

Notes

• Add custom notes/tags to a user/community that can be color coded

Embed youtube/invidious/peertube that pins on scroll

• When opening a thread with a link to a youtube/peertube/inividious link have it embed and play in the app and when you go to the comments have the video stay pinned on top so you can keep watching while scrolling through the comments

I want the ability to login to any given Lemmy instance with another instance's account. Kind of like how I can login to various sites using a Google account. I think it would be fantastic if I could login to say, Beehaw.org with my Programming.dev account. That way if I'm perusing Beehaw.org directly I don't have to worry about having my own account there or finding that community back at Programming.dev (and waiting for the subscription to update); I can just login with an existing Lemmy account from some other instance.

If a Lemmy instance is already federating with an instance where I have an account I don't see any reason why this would cause content/moderation problems.

The ability to copy the URL of a video so I can paste it to NewPipe - or a setting where I can choose to use YouTube or NewPipe all red the time.

A wishlist for two categories, in each sorted from very important to less important:

Technical:

• Open all links relative to my home instance (I want to stay logged in)
• Make community discovery easier and consistent. One method, which always works.
• Move account to another instance, complete with subscriptions and notifications when older comments receive replies
• Clarity: I'm often confused in which community a post lives, or where it originated. Or what a user's home instance is. It is fine to display relative information (Post X from instance Y as seen from instance Z), if clearly less emphasized
• Indicate who can see a post or comment. From what instances is that content visible?
• Display the same community stats regardless from which subscribed instance they are viewed (subscriber count varies wildly)

View:

• Allow to hide selected posts
• Expand and collapse images in threads
• Lock my feed: Please don't add posts to the top while I'm browsing the thumbnails at the bottom
• Display post/comment live preview below input field, so I can see the preview while editing. Currently I must switch view.
• Search within a community (without leaving the community page)
• Customize your feed: Control how much of each community is displayed (I want posts from some small communities to always show, and posts from others to only show rarely, or only those with votes/comments)

This was meant with the web/browser in mind. I expect apps and clients to work similarly, unless a characteristic necessitates exceptions (screen size, touch, ...).

Ability to choose the default sort for comments

I want the ability to filter content based on words or urls.

wefwef.app is perfect and extremely smooth right now and can be installed locally as an app. It's open-source, it has a GitHub repo for those who want to host their own or want to audit the code. Would be cool if it was available directly as an apk on Play Store, I believe it would be hugely beneficial for Lemmy if it became the "official" app!

I'd say other apps should try to take some hints from wefwef, it does all the things right, is inspired by Apollo and once you use it you won't miss Reddit at all!

Before I got thunder I used jerboa. It has a bug where when I backspaced it would squish the text together making me have to go and respace my text.

Apart from the ones already mentioned,

• being able to collapse all threads in a post to only show parent-level comments
• keyboard shortcuts ala RES (esp the J-K navigation)
• more themes (the default ones suck)
• more image improvements

• Favourite communities (to appear on top of the list);
• Better video support;
• Better sorting algorithm;
• Search for posts (most apps still don't support);

On top of that, I think the most crucial is to have a very fluid and stable interface, which I think is not the case for most apps.

Make it super easy to download images.

I have a group chat with friends that's just memes. So the easier to share, the better.

I'd mainly just say

• multi-lemmy similar to the multireddits.
• consider a post read as you scroll past it.
• this is probably app specific, but some mobile clients have trouble with certain links embedding. It varies per app, but I'd hope for this to be fixed along the process so things are more readable.
• something that combines post comment sections over multiple instances. This one's probably more complex but I'd hope to keep the decentralization but still have all the activity in one place snd not see it multiple times.

Other things are already really good.

Pretty happy with Memmy. Could use a few more customization features, but otherwise very solid.

I do think the desktop versions of most Lemmy instances need to tighten up the front page experience.

Reddit had shortcuts for your subscriptions right when you login.

Lemmy requires clicking communities, then subscriptions, then clicking the community you actually want. 3 times the amount of clicks to get to where you’re going.

Being able to add the Dracula theme. That's it, I miss it from Infinity </3

Lemmy on mobile is good but the PWA has a flaw: You can't "save image" or "share image" when long-pressing like you can in the browser. I'd really like that ability (though it might not be possible due to limitations with PWAs on mobile... Dunno).

Some core features I’d love to see in an iOS lemmy client

• The ability to render photos, videos, and gifs in the app

• The ability to view the community lists for specific instances that my instance federates with

• Robust cross-instance search, with the ability to filter out certain instances

• A multi-Reddit style community subset aggregator

• The ability to click a link to a post left within a different post and have it open in-app

• The ability to minimize previously viewed stickied posts

• The ability to hide stickied posts from the main feed

Cool Stuff

• The ability to have a merged feed of posts consisting of multiple accounts on different instances

• Kbin Compatibility

• Hidden downvote buttons when dealing with instances that disallow it

I've never gotten any notifications from the "installed" web app, so I don't know if these don't work or it's just that no one's replied to any of my comments. If it's the former then that would be nice. Also, having image posts show up on my feed directly instead of me having to click on the thumbnails manually would make the experience so much better. Having some sort of feature to keep multiple logins at once and browse the content available on all of them combined would mitigate the issues related to some instances not being federated with others. Maybe have some sort of priority list so that when you comment it automatically does that on the first account on that list that can access the instance in question.

Anything that improves the UX and masquerades the issues that decentralization presents to the end user will make Lemmy a lot more welcoming.

PS: apologies if I'm making a fool of myself and all of those things I mentioned are actually possible and I'm just ignorant about them. Either way, an intuitive tutorial could also help new users understand how to make the most of the app without digging up posts.

Something very simple on the web client: a setting to get links to open in a new tab, to make it easier to get back to the same point in the comments.

They’re all improving so quickly, but I’m still holding my breath for an option to hide thumbnails in compact mode.

I like my feed dark and clean, stripped right down.

It seems simple but I haven't seen a lemmy app do it yet, left-handed mode. Flips so that the post thumbnails are on the left side instead of the right.

A button to hide posts from the feed.

Honestly I just love it and I hope it keeps growing

Sometimes using jerboa to open images doesn't quite work the way you'd expect it to, and I know that's not really Lemmy as such but it's about the only negative I can think of

Massive effort on high quality i18n, l10n and a11y.

Improving just these will make Lemmy accessible to millions of more users and communities.

Something similar to what Infinity for shitdit had, we definitely need usability tweaks and better customization options, it would also be great to have different appearance settings per user and nsfw blur per user as well.

I'd love if there was a way to categorize saved posts for both account and local storage and the ability to choose to save posts to a local storage list.

An option to merge the same post from two different communities in a way that preserves some semblance of federation while also making it so the same headline doesn't appear a half dozen times in my feed. Maybe by merging together comment sections and putting an indicator next to each comment chain showing which instance it came from.

• The ability to block or blur-out posts and comments from a custom list of servers and not just specific users. The second some admins/mods give up on toning down the edgy "debaters" I don't want to deal with any of that. Though I feel this would fit more as a Lemmy feature and not just a client one.
• As someone else suggested, keyword based filters, both for comment/post content but user names and link URLs.
• An OLED-friendly pitch black color theme.
• Swipe controls would be a really lovely one, like what they had in Apollo. Made it real easy to hide|downvote<->upvote|favorite instead of aiming for tiny touch buttons while reading with one hand.
• The ability to save a local copy of posts in case an instance goes down or if one's internet is spotty, especially for servers offering useful knowledge.
• Cleanly separated history, subscriptions and bookmarks between accounts. This one annoyed me in RIF. I couldn't keep a list of favorite subreddits per account.
• Muted video/GIF autoplaying while scrolling would be great, but I understand that one's probably a pain to get working efficiently.

Yes, basically I just dream of seeing Apollo Redux for Lemmy/Kbin on Android and with strong content/server filtering. 😅 I'd absolutely spend 10-15$ on that.