Fediverse

This has been suggested many times, but we need a way to link comments and posts in an instance-agnostic way. Getting pulled to a new instance when you click a link is very confusing for new users. Another use case that was common on reddit that won't work without this feature is you can't have a stickied post with links to other important posts in the community. People will get pulled into the instance that the linker is in, which means people who follow the link will be logged out (unless their account is on the same instance as OP) and won't be able to interact with the post.

This isn't a nice-to-have feature. This is a must-have feature.

I want something similar to multi-reddits. I want to mix and match communities to my hearts desire into one big feed. I also want to combine duplicate communities from different instances to the same feed.

Repetition. The front page algorithm frequently shows way too many posts from a single community, often in a row. It also tends to show me a lot of duplicated posts that have been reposted to multiple communities.

There needs to be a better mix in the way posts are selected. Popular communities should not be able to dominate the listing with multiple posts. The more posts they get to the front page, the more they should be down-weighted in order to give an equitable mix.

This complaint applies to All, Local, and Subscribed. If you don’t want to change the default algorithm, then perhaps add the new one as an option?

Now we are free of reddit we need to separate NSFW and NSFL. Not sure if allowing both on the same post should be allowed but we defiantly need to have both as options.

The mod tools are too basic and barebones. I'd appreciate if we can get:

• Post approval system for new or low-karma accounts (it can be karma for local communities)
• Reporting system with multiple options (very hard to implement in the fediverse as everyone has different rules) so that the reports are sent to the proper channels. Admins shouldn't have to deal with community-specific rules (for example, "memes only on mondays").
• Automoderator (these might already exist? I have not tried them.)

I don't know if I should split this comment into three or not but they're some general suggestions to address the complaint of basic mod tools.

Proper cross posts

I miss the ability to view all the posts that I upvoted.

You can do a "thumbs up" on github, iirc the developer said last time i talked to him is that this is what they use for prioratization.

Here is the list of the most "thumbs up" issues on github for the "lemmy" repo.

We could always use rysolv (a bounty platform), that can different from "I want this" and "i think it is important enought to risk some of my money for it".

There needs to be a way to tag posts, similar to Reddit's flair system but with multiple flairs.

Also related to the aforementioned, a working search by flair system. Searching posts on a subreddit by flair never worked for me.

Avatar deletions don't federate. When you delete your avatar on your instance, it doesn't get deleted across the threadiverse / fediverse.

2 feature requests:

Combine posts from different instances into a single item.

Allow filtering or blocking by regex. So I can filter all subs that have a word in them or match a pattern.

Permalinks to comment chains are buggy and need their functionality improved. I spend a lot of my time on Lemmy commenting and conversing with other users. Once a chain exceeds about 8 replies, it becomes increasingly difficult to find the thread with the permalink button from my inbox. This is a problem that some mobile clients have solved, like Mlem, but it should also behave correctly on desktop.

Maybe its just me, but there is one very common thing that happen to me through any firefox (desktop or mobile) and irrespective of any specific lemmy server, and irrespective if I'm authenticated or browsing as public/anonymous.

Lets say I'm looking at the front page of lemmy.world. I've reached the bottom of the page (lets call that page #0) and hit the "NEXT" button. The next page loads successfully displaying the next page of items (so now we're on page #1). I click/tap into an article or comments of one. This loads successfully. When I finish reading, I click/tap the BACK button in the browser. Since I was on Page #1 I would expect to go back to Page #1. Instead I GO BACK TO PAGE #0! So I have to scroll to the bottom of Page #0, hit NEXT again, Page #1 loads successfully. If I were to click/tap into different article or comments, read, and hit BACK in the browser, I would have to repeat the same page #0, scroll to the bottom, hit NEXT to return to Page #1 again.

Any ideas? Is there a different button somewhere in the body of the page I should be clicked a back function instead of using the browser built in BACK button?

I would like an option within settings to get comments sorted by 'Top' (or new/hot) when I open any post. Thanks.

Migration of profile (comments etc)

I wish there were an option to see like 80-90% communities I'm subscribed to or following or whatever, and 10-20% posts from communities I'm not subscribed to that are getting a lot of activity. I mostly only want to see what I opt-in for, but a small amount of discovery would be nice

I want categories of blocklists that I can turn on, e.g. uncheck languages I don’t know, uncheck religion, uncheck politics, etc.

I want to be able to group together all posts that were posted by the same user with the same content to different committees. I want to view that as a single post not 6 or however many they spam posted it to.

I want to be able to view same community spanning different server instances as a single community if I so choose, maybe some way to combine them and auto-add new communities with same name as they pop up ok other instances. Posting to it should give option of which server to post to, or all of them?

I have to switch between subscribed/local/all feed all the time. That's why I proposed a mixed-feed, which merges Subscribed/Local/All feed according to users settings so you don't have to switch all the time.

I already created an issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2137

communities im interested in are really small

Too many duplicate posts because of people cross posting the same content to all the duplicate channels across all the federated servers. I regularly see 5 duplicates in a row while browsing. It's very annoying.

A simple toast message after an applicant signs up, but before the admins approve the application. Currently the applicant is offered no feedback while in this no-person's land between applying and being approved.

This is very obvious on the confirm email link. Once you log in, the username and password will disappear, but no feedback is sent to the applicant.

I would fix it myself but I don't know rust or inferno.

Not complaint but suggestion: When I get to the bottom of a column of msgs and click the NEXT button ... page should scroll to the top!

I need to sub to a bundle of all pc gaming communities out there. A Federated group of communities.

Meta-communities but each community can declare what they are about, so nobody necessarily needs to create the meta-community.

User flair. I know it's probably not that high on the list for most who might see it as a gimmick, but it's almost essential for sports discussion to know what team a user supports. I'm sure many other communities have compelling reasons as well.

Every morning I look at everything and have to block about 20 communities because they aren't English. I filter posts on language, but these have no language set, so they come through. Would be great to tighten up language detection, or community defaults

Turn off reply notifications.

no RSS support.

I've forgotten how to find and subscribe to a community on an instance other than the one I'm on. Once I get some time to reassociate myself I'm sure I can figure it out again but it's not intuitive.

When you click on "list of communites". An option to default to "subscribed". I never just want to see "local".