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?
Some sort of super community that are searchable (i.e. not something Clientside) and span multiple servers. The fragmentation of having the same few communities everywhere is my biggest issue here.
In general I want more and better discoverability of communities anywhere.
Yeah, it’s be great if a community could decide to link its feed with another community, essentially to make them one super-community that share the same content and members. Factorio, for example, has I think three communities. I’m sure there are many worse than that.
more and better discoverability of communities anywhere.
If you haven’t yet, you may want to take a look at lemmyverse.net’s community index/search. They run a spider that crawls the whole Threadiverse and builds an index of all communities on all instances.
Polls
I love the Old Lemmy webiste, I wish there was a way to incorporate a RES type of extension for Lemmy
I mean, it’s doable now, but I think that the limiting factor is just the userbase. More developers using the platform, more people interested in writing code for browser extensions.
There is a lemmy/kbin assistant extension for Firefox, which is far, far more basic than RES, but provides one critical feature that I regularly use – being able to view a post on one’s home instance. So people have done work on these.
Also, if by “Old Lemmy”, you mean mlmym, that’s not merely a website. It’s an alternate Web UI that instances can run alongside the regular one. My home instance does so at https://old.lemmy.today/
Picture Albums that you can scroll through on an app.
Make it easier to join.
Consolidation of communities with a sort of overlay.
Mods can choose to mirror the whole community. This way you can have a sort of unified community happening between instances instead of happening on each island.
Also mods can move a discussion if needed.Just recently I have seen a three separate discussions across three different c/technology communities.
Post flairs
Blocking instances
I think this one is already a thing as of a few months ago, but maybe its not rolled out to your instance yet.
Or the app they use maybe didn’t implement it yet.
As long as they have a version that supports it, you can flip over to the Web UI to set it, then go back to a native client, if need be.
Kbin/Mbin have supported instance blocking since forever. Dunno about piefed and sublinks.
Already possible, I believe. At least on client level: I’ve blocked a lot of junk in Voyager
Detect AI prompts attached to images and not strip them from images on upload the way other EXIF data is.
Stripping EXIF location data to help keep people from being doxxed is one thing, but AI image generators try to make images with metadata to avoid indicating that the images are AI generated, which helps avoid using them for training and lets people inspect how images are created. As of now, that gets stripped on upload. It’s particularly obnoxious over in [email protected].
Resizeable inline images. At least some way to show them enlarged, the way one can with images that are posted. Kbin had it, and I’m sure mbin does, but the Lemmy Web UI does not, which means manually adding a link beneath the image if you want people to be able to conveniently view images full-size, particularly on touch interfaces.
Reddit Markdown lets one use italics inside links, like so:
I like [the author of *A Game of Thrones*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin).However, Lemmy does not presently support this syntax, renders it as:
I like the author of A Game of Thrones.
I frequently want to have partially-styled links like this, particularly italics.
EDIT: Okay, I just discovered that apparently this has been implemented since the last time I tried it. Thanks, devs!
I’d like to be able to mark specific top level posts as ‘don’t show me this again’.
This is available in Lemmy 0.19.5, which almost all instances use except Lemmy.world
Notification whenever there’s something in the mod queue of a board I moderate. At least I don’t see any such notification when using Voyager.
User migration between instances.
Yeah, user migration would be nice.
If it were a shift to simply using a keypair as the basis for identity, which would be a big change, then one could potentially transparently use any instance. That’d be neat from an instance reliability standpoint.
Keypair-based identity would also permit migrating an account from a permanently failed instance. Right now, the home instance is the authoritative source for the account. The problem with that is that if the instance goes away forever, then there’s no authoritative source left to determine who controls a user account. One of the use cases that I’m worried about is a big instance going down because the admins get in a car crash or something, and it killing all the user reputation that’s been built up, because nothing can be done after the permanent failure.
IIRC feddit.uk had a close call like this a while back.
Alongside others mentioned (tags/flairs, multi-communities, keyword filtering, etc.) another feature I’d like to see added/improved is notification settings.
Something like…
In account settings:
- Enable/disable all notifications.
- Enable/disable post reply notifications.
- Enable/disable comment reply notifications.
For others’ posts/comments and per posts/comments:
- Enable/disable post reply notifications.
- Enable/disable comment reply notifications.
With those settings you could more easily tune out all notifications or only opt into those you’d like to see, and opt out of those you’re done with (say your post/comment got popular and you’ve had your fill from the replies).
Unrelated to notification settings, it would also be nice to be able to block communities from the front page via the … More menu in the default web UI.
Yes, this is probably my single biggest one. Particularly:
opt out of those you’re done with (say your post/comment got popular and you’ve had your fill from the replies).
More users that aren’t Americans talking about their politics would be nice.
The post you’re responding to is explicitly asking for things that don’t involve content on lemmy, but rather functionality in lemmy.
True. In the grand tradition of the internet I only responded to the headline.
