I would like to see recommendations for communities based on my communities. It's not trivial to solve, but discoverability isn't great right now.
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Problem here is also that your instance may not know about all communities from the instances you're connected to. This could probably also be improved.
Yes, that's what I mean by not trivial, a centralized system can do analysis like this a lot easier. But even on your own instance, they could find the N users with the most overlapping subscriptions and check which communities they follow to give you recommendations.
I guess the 'simple' way of doing this would be adding tags to communities like 'art' 'hobbies' 'sport' 'football' etc. This might then let the app suggest others based on the tags you are subscribed to.
It would probably still require some AI/analytics to work out the links based on user activity in different communities/tags but I think it would make it easier to group interests and promote smaller communities.
It could also improve Lemmy visibility in Masterdon if the tags are used as hashtags or something. (Would require more work)
Kbin lists "related magazines" which are similar communities in the fediverse. Not sure how it works but I think it may be based on hashtags like this.
An option to view all comments from crossposts when browsing a post. It's annoying how you can see a post that's been crossposted 5 times and wonder where the comments are.
Reading some of these is making me really appreciate @ernest.
We have this one, it's handy. There's a list of crossposts and how many comments each has, you can click to where the acive discussions are.
Cross instance post/comment deletion.
Sometimes I just don't want my comments to live forever and deleting shouldn't be impossible.
I don't know, man, your comments are works of art.
Sometimes I just don't want my comments to live forever and deleting shouldn't be impossible.
Due to the nature of the Fediverse, this will be very difficult if not impossible to implement/enforce.
The fediverse is not set up for that. Everything is public and could be saved by an instance admin
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?
The ability to see all the communities if you search them up without having to find it via lemmyverse.net and inserting the specific fedi url to the search bar. It's a crucial thing for an average Joe, no matter it's due to how the fedi protocol works.
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Reports categories based on both the community, the instance of the community + the user to reduce report noise between mod actions and admin actions.
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Post tags, to label content within a community.
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Better language support, clearly indicating which ones are allowed when submitting something in the language dropdown, as well as basic language detection support.
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When the instance is using pictrs, add a section in the user's settings to see all the uploaded pictures in that account, with the ability to delete any of them.
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Better accessibility / a11y support for uploaded images with alt-text.
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Support for svg-based emojis
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For mods, the ability to make a pinned post made by one of the mods editable by other mods, which would be useful for FAQs, etc.
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The ability to subscribe/follow a specific user, not just communities.
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Passkeys support as a 2FA method.
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Some basic builtin automod action, such as blocking known keywords from spammers from being posted, not just showing as removed as when using the slur filter in the admin settings.
EDIT: Something I just thought of
- A URI protocol handler to refer to communities, users, post and comments in an instance-independant way (ie:
lemmy://u/mp3@lemmy.ca
,lemmy://c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
,lemmy://c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml/p/1234567
) or another syntax that makes more sense. That way you could let the OS redirect the query to the software of your choice, and define your home instance there.
Now there are some issues to figure out before defining the URI handler, like how to refer to a post or comment that will redirect to the appropriate one on your home instance since post and comment currently have a unique ID on each instance, which makes them hard to directly address without doing some kind of conversion.
There NEEDS to be an account migration option, with not only settings but also my saved posts and comments, own posts and comments etc. If not possible, at least allow an export in the style of a gddpr dump from the likes of facebook etc. to allow import at a later time when implemented.
My instance is shutting down at the end of the month (~500 users) and there is no good way to export my data. I would not be surprised if some of the 500 get frustrated and stop with lemmy.
Migrating posts and comments is not possible with activitypub, as that would be rewriting history. But you could open up an issue for a user data only export, as that wouldn't be too difficult to do.
Thanks for your reply! I looked into it and #3976 seems to be pretty much that because the "import" part of it was shot down.
I could create an issue for specifically gdpr style exports tho.
Speaking of which, a mechanism to manage posts from instances your account has previously migrated away from.
Guessing fixing child porn propagation isn't the highest priority?
Make it easier for server admins to connect/link to the child porn hash databases, scripts for autobans + deletion of any content, flagging + notify to other servers etc.
Honestly I feel like Lenny needs flairs more than anything
I agree. It's one of the number 1 features I miss from Reddit.
Users that want to talk about tv shows that I watch and more places to do so
I need a proper controversial sort option. I want to know where the juice is.
Saving is broken.
When showing a saved post or comment, show them in order of save instead of original post date. If I save an article, go to find it the next day, it's not there. Turns out it was sorted under 6mos ago when it was originally posted.
Sort by two filters at once (top this day, controversial this week, ...)
Controversial and others are literally useless, its always the same posts
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.
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.
Developers who actually give a shit about what the users want and need.
Whereβs the multi-lemmies support
Better default UI and general refinement
Some system to make sure communities are on sync.
theyre working on a new lemmy "lepton" ui, so a better default ui is in the works, in the meantime, you may like the photon ui
Being able to block entire instances from your feed, without defederating.
Allow multiple groups per post (use them like tags). This would have some interesting implications regarding moderation and the handling of replies to the said post.
Having multiple identical posts in different groups with distributed replies doesn't feel ideal to me.
Having multiple identical posts in different groups with distributed replies doesnβt feel ideal to me.
I think this is actually a feature. You're essentially trying to centralize communities, but communities are decentralised just like instances.
Why do we have multiple Technology communities? Because some people might like the mods or the rules in the other community better or maybe you can't even access one of the communities because your instance is defederated from the instance with that community.
Just as one admin doesn't have monopoly on the Fediverse, no mod has monopoly on a community.
Multiple communities is a feature, not a bug.
I would like the ability for people to mod communities outside their instance.
This is already possible.
Speed, a lot. Loading the profile for some reason takes forever for me, this "user not authenticated"