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?
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If anything, I’d love a diff of each edit vs the ability to ninja edit
rather than allowing edits for invisible edits for X minutes, couldn’t your client just delay actually sending it for X minutes allowing to cancel or edit freely until that point?
Gmail allows a similar feature and it seems safer in a distributed system than relying on everyone else to respect what happens after you send a raw message and an edit right after
Implementing this like Gmail would mean doing it server-side. Handling it in the client would be more error-prone, since your device would have to have a good connection in the future, and if it doesn’t, handle retries and make sure never to double-post.
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Being able to actually migrate an account, not just settings and follows etc but your post and comment history etc. All data
Add technical depth by allowing communities to select a default “sort by most recent comment” like a forum. This is the key difference between ADHD content that focuses on time versus forums that focus on depth. Then find a way to integrate these deep threads into the Allfeed. Bridge the gap between forums with depth and PITA user names versus link aggregators with ADHD but recent info and broad scope.
Is this not what the “active” sorting does?
To some extent yes, but it is not a default option at the community level. The scope is only as a user setting overall.
I’m abstracting to analyze a question of why link aggregators do not naturally displace very technical niche forums. I don’t believe that expecting the user to alter their overall sorting method is effective here. Nor do I believe that the pinned thread is an effective prioritization method to promote a more technical niche. In my opinion, the method of prioritization and promotion needs to be organic and democratically sourced as a fundamental mechanism that drives community behavior.
The part that I cannot intuitively work out is how to integrate the old niche threads with the aggregated feed in a way that is nonauthoritative or forced or feels like a narrative agenda. How to both enable content discovery while enabling depth is an interesting challenge that could IMO surpass any current or previous link aggregation platform’s functionality and use in such a way as to antiquate all previous platforms.
A setting for default sort order. Let’s begin with the basics.
What? That’s already in the settings.
Not for comments.
Being able to block link posts by host. It is the one of the reasons I use mbin more than lemmy.
Like, block/hide posts that go to specific domains? i.e hide any posts that link to Facebook?
(I develop a lemmy app and may be able to add that capability on the frontend)
Yes, for example blocking “reddit.com”, “new.reddit.com”, “old.reddit.com”…
Thanks for clarifying.
I’ll definitely add that. Will probably include a few built-ins since they have a lot of different domains: Facebook, Xhitter, Reddit, etc. Those can be toggled and then add a separate list for the user to add custom domains.
e.g. Selecting “Reddit” would filter “old.reddit, new.reddit, reddit.com, out.reddit.com, etc” Selecting “Facebook” would filter all of their main and short domains, etc.
(I usually trawl posts like this to get feature ideas lol)
Show me a list of posts and comments I upvoted.
That works with Boost for Lemmy, so apparantly the data is already there in the backend (and at least one frontend).
The voyager app has that feature.
The API supports that, but not all UIs do yet.
It’s on my “to do” list for my app.
Followong a user.
You can, at least, do that externally through RSS:
Aka stalking?
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aenhancement
(I think that’s the official list.)
Some way of linking to a post somewhere on Lemmy that will open up the post in your logged in instance of Lemmy.
Would upvote this suggestion more tan once, if I could.
there’s https://lemmyverse.link, but a native way of doing so would be nice.
Ultimately, using a protocol handler instead of URLs would solve that (ie: like how
mailtolinks works).Photon does that, and so does Tesseract, but it only works if you’re logged in since it relies on resolve object API call (which requires authentication)
I actually think some URI like
fediverse:...might be better. You know, something like themailto:coolguy.comURI that works across all supported email websites or even apps.Check out lemmy assistant web extension.
That helps, but honestly, it shouldn’t be a client workaround.
Search the remote post URL in your search bar, it will open locally
Lemmy does pretty much everything I want from this medium of communication. Wishlist features would be:
- A better way of linking posts, I see that there is an extenstion that fixes this issue but it would be nice for new users if this was built in
- Account migrations
- Multi Communities
- A way to assign a #tag to a community. For example If I make c/MMA then I would want every post there to federate with the tag #MMA and every post tagged #MMA to show up in c/MMA
- A way of scheduling posts within lemmy.
- Maybe a little icon that shows where things are being posted from. So if I see a user with a mastodon showing up in the feed with a formatting mistake ill know why.
- An option to follow a thread so you can be notified of all new comments even when its not your thread.
- It would be nice for instances to have a monthly server cost that tracks donations. I couldnt find any examples except reddit but something like this sitting in the sidebar would help show users how much these stuff all costs. There could be one for instances and development cost goals.
Multi-communities.
So you can create a list of communities over various instances and show all posts in them as if they were one.Yeah. Or just personalized feeds that you could share. I’m sure some instances have a great list of communities that their subscribers follow, that isn’t available on/Local. And going to /All isn’t always a good time. If there was like a /All, but maybe with some extra filters, that users could just subscribe to, that would be awesome
I always use /all, out of curiosity what’s your issue with it? I have nsfw hidden, and have been having a good time.
I like /all too, just to be clear. But sometimes I’d like to browse the equivalent of /all, just without politics. Sometimes it’s a little much and the feed could be 70%+ posts about the US election
Plus, some instances seem to have a certain “style” to them. I feel like it would be cool if there was some currated feeds that instances presented, that include content across multiple instances that fit that “style”. Would just be an easier way to explore those niche communities. It would also kinda solve the issue with having fractured communities for the same topic across multiple instances
This is the big one I want too
I have this in Tesseract as “Community Groups” (works exactly like you described; browse the group as a custom feed), but I’ve neglected it for some time now. It works, but it’s kind of slow and the sorting/mixing could use some improvement.
The sorting/mixing used to be better, but Lemmy 0.19.0 removed most of the ranking specs from the API response, so I can only sort on the basics like score, number of comments, and date. :(
Filter posts based on a keywords from the title/content.
Block community in the 3 dots menu. No I don’t know what that’s called. I’m using firefox if that helps. I don’t want an app thank you.
The “3 dots” menu is sometimes referred to as a “kebab menu” if the dots are vertical and a “meatballs menu” if the dots are horizontal. I think it’s weird, but I have heard it used in instructional videos before.
The obvious one, tags and flairs
FYI: Tesseract and Photon both support those by putting [Tags] or [Flairs] at the beginning or end of the post title. Both make them clickable which will search for other posts containing the flair.
