Sometimes when I’ve found new communities on non local instances I’m unable to subscribe directly and I get a screen where it asks me what instance I’m subscribing from and when I click the only suggestion “lemmy.world” it doesn’t recognize it as valid. I know you can subscribe to these communities in distant instances by using the local search bar with an exclamation point in front of it but it’s a convoluted process and could be streamlined.
Yeah the whole searching for other instances is painful 😣
Another thing I just ran into, if I’m linked to the on-instance version of a thread on an instance other than my home, it says I need to log in or register to comment. How do I switch to the version of that same post as seen from my home instance? I wouldn’t need to register a separate account because I see a lot of off-instance posts on my home feed. Perplexing.
Developers who actually give a shit about what the users want and need.
I would like the ability for people to mod communities outside their instance.
Why wouldn’t they just make an account there?
This is like asking to redecorate your neighbor’s living room
I’d like to be able to ask my neighbours to help me move furniture in my living room.
I don’t mean community creation, just mod assistance. It’s easier if we don’t have to keep logging into different accounts is all.
I’d say the bar for entry for modding is having a local account
Not tried it, does it not work?
Not yet, I think.
I literally do that now
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech That’s really cool! Definitely something for people to consider rather than developing hyper-specific moderation tools for their own Lemmy or whatever.
@scrubbles @Lanky_Pomegranate530
That’s so cool! Does it work between Kbin and Lemmy? Or are they both lemmy instances?
For me it’s just Lemmy, dunno about other services, but I believe it’s all activitypub protocol specs, so I would imagine it works
This is already possible.
On the mobile website when I tap the link into a post, read it and then hit the back button, I often end up on the page before the one I clicked into the link from, so like, I have to scroll to the bottom of the page and hit next and scroll down again to see the same link I originally clicked. Sometimes when this happens the “subscribed/local/all” and “new/hot/controversial” dialogs are reset as well and I’ve lost my spot in the feed entirely.
This doesn’t emulate the presumed intended functionality of reddit feeds where if you hit back you are at the exact spot in the feed where you clicked the original link.
a huge chunk of content is based around video nowadays. so i would like to see video support
I love video as much as the next person, but hosting a video platform is incredible expensive and potential difficult especially for a global audience.
I think that might put a large burden on people hosting it. That isn’t even talking about people abusing it for like copyrighted content.
I’ve been adding some more support for torrents to try to get ahead of this.
Duplicate posts in my feed
I keep seeing 2 day old posts pretty high in the feed and it’s gotten annoying.
More filters like the NSFW filter. “U.S. Politics” and “Elon Musk” filters would be nice
Basically this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/rfcs/pull/4
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Not a technical thing, but…
Better user interactions. I know not everyone came from reddit, but there are so many reddit-like interactions across Lemmy. I’m talking about not assuming good faith and jumping down people’s throats. Low-effort comments (I’m guilty of this, too). The need to always be right and continue arguing for no reason.
It was tiring to see this on reddit over the years. But it’s sad to see how much of that behavior has made its way to Lemmy.
With federation, however, there’s not really a good way to solve this, since each instance, including self-hosted instances, determines their own moderation and “culture.” But it would be something I’d like to see improved, even i we each have to do it ourselves.
On the technical side, absolutely mod tools. It’s stunning how bad they are here. And I’m coming from reddit, where tools were poor.
Speed, a lot. Loading the profile for some reason takes forever for me, this “user not authenticated”
That may be an issue with your instance. I can load your profile just fine, and mine loads fine too. But when I’m on a smaller instance (with less server computing) loading things takes noticeably longer. Simply because smaller instances have less computing to go around, so requests get queued and your client can time out if it stays in the queue too long.
I wonder if down votes should be lightly nerfed. The idea would be to make it easier for people to post mildly unpopular opinions in hopes of furthering discussions and weakening brigading. I imagine there are a lot of people who comment once, get downvoted and then either never comment again, or only comment in ways that are safe and appeal to the community’s biases and sense of humor.
Something like requiring 10 downvotes to drop from 1 to 0.
Oh, it would also discourage spite downvoting since it would be hard for any one user to push a persons comment to 0.
Or since scores aren’t really even tracked across all of your posts and comments, we could just care a little less about how people are voting on our posts. If one isn’t well received it’s really not the end of the world.
Multi
redditscommunitiesIn-line translation features for non-English communities (in my case) would be very helpful and would exceed Reddit functionality, which is something I think Lemmy should strive toward
Yes this would be amazing!
Integration with DeepL API like Misskey would be cool!
This should really be implemented at either the browser or lemmy-ui/app level, not in the back end.
While we are speaking of it, please let users choose between languages (original and target) independently of system locale.
Sometimes I encounter social media posts auto translated (probably through Google translate) but languages detection is messed up. And the best part is there isn’t a menu to choose.
I need avatar builder like Reddit’s avatar builder
Moderation tools. They need to drop literally everything else they are working on and build robust moderation tools for community owners. Nothing else matters more than this.
Could you link to the issues in the lemmy issue tracker, so I can know which ones you’re referring to?
Here is a hopefully minor thing…
Reddit has multireddits where you can have a few that follows a certain selection of subreddits under a label. You can have multiple ones defined as well. Therefore, you can have a view for all things news (following multiple news things) without having to view those things on your main home feed (as well as any other defined topics that you can think of).
It would be nifty if such a thing could exist inside of Lemmy as well.
We have something like this at Kbin, including the ability to make them public and subscribe to other peoples’ public multis.
It’s really great, I hope Lemmy gets it.
For now at least, if you use Sync you can have multiple accounts each with their own subscriptions and settings and switch between them at will.
There is this issue for it https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818
