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.
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.
Recommendation algorithms are a big reason for the enshitification of other social media. You don’t need to be connected to everything everywhere all at once. Enjoy your handful of small communities.
I don’t want random posts to appear in my feed from communities I haven’t subscribed to, but I want to have a feature that shows me suggestions for communities when I ask for it. That’s a big difference. Right now it’s (too) hard to find these communities.
Recommendation algorithms are fine as long as they’ce user-centric and opt-in.
Exactly this. I like how substack works and have no idea if it’s doable or not.
Hashtags could possibly help with this. When making a post, a user can add hashtags which categorize the content. One can then search hashtags, or subscribe to them to find new communities. Probably not as passive as you’d be looking for, though.
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.
Oh hey, I had no idea ernest was back. Great to have him back.
Yeah we heard from him recently. Hopefully his health is good now.
Split NSFW into NSFW and NSFL.
More options around that in general. I would love a spoiler flag that does the same blur as NSFW but isn’t filtered out by the ‘show NSFW’ checkbox.
It would probably be better to have a more general tag system and then NSFW and NSFL could just be examples of tags.
Although NSFW really serves the extra purpose of “18+” which is important to have for legal reasons.
Maybe a setting for each tag for whether it qualifies as NSFW? That way you could have multiple tags that would be filtered as NSFW for different classes of content, which could enable individual users to only filter one of the tags if they only want to avoid something specific.
Cross instance post/comment detection.
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.
Nah, not mine, piss takes and sarcasm mostly.
Exactly. [chef’s kiss]
The fediverse is not set up for that. Everything is public and could be saved by an instance admin
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.
detection
You meant deletion? This is already implemented about as well as it can be.
deleted by creator
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.
Hmm I only browse in mobile voyager and there’s an “all” filter. Is that not available?
That ‘all’ is all of the communities and posts your server knows about. You are on a pretty big (I think?) server, so it’s probably pretty good. For people on smaller servers like the one I’m on, it won’t have a lot of the smaller niche communities on there as no one from my server has ever visited them.
If I made a new community on my instance and posted stuff there, you wouldn’t see it in your ‘all’ feed unless someone from lemme.ee visited the new community first.
Nice explanation
Someone made a tool for you to automatically add a community to various all feeds from instances that are part of the service. I’ll try and find it.
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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.
Tags for posts would be great!
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Brigaders.
People with like 10 accounts that upvote themselves/downvote dissent.
Kbin votes are public so we can see brigades in action.
Apparently Lemmy votes are too but it’s not accessible in the native interface, only from Kbin. Maybe a third party client will implement it.
It’s super obvious when it happens to you, but it’s not obvious when you see it in the wild. It would be a great improvement to the site to just show the users who downvoted/upvoted.
Admins and mods can see this in the latest version.
It really is. I’ve seen people being called out for doing it on kbin because we can literally see a list of users who upvoted.
I also noticed sometimes after getting into an argument it’s like they go through my profile and start downvoting everything. I feel like any vote that comes from someone’s profile (rather than in the wild) should be flagged as suspicious because it feels like they’re never genuine.
That’s a problem not a solution.
Not sure if this is Lemmy or the app I use, but I would like my saved content to appear in the order it was saved. It sucks when I save something old and am unable to find it when I look at my saved items.
Omg yes! Was going to say this
This is great news! Thanks!
I’d like to see more instances with 100-500 users.
I know that’s a community thing, more than a Lemmy thing. I just don’t feel like I have a wealth of choices. I’m still on lemmy.world and when I look around, I don’t see a lot of medium-sized instances to migrate to.
Try to join an instance that is related to your geographical location or your country or state. That should result in a more even spread than what we have right now.
I’d love to see more country specific instances.
I’ve looked. I find it hard to believe that there’s no California or SF Bay instances, but I haven’t found anything.
“be the change you want to see” and all that. Just takes 1 admin to take the initiative.
It’s a lot of work to admin an instance, though. I can understand if random people don’t want to do it. I hope one day someone does, because a California or Socal instance was the first one I looked for, too.
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.
Edit: here is one of mine: https://kbin.social/c/Cinema
There is this issue for it https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818
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.
I’d love to have to specifically choose for my comment to have the mod flair rather than it always be present.
I need a proper controversial sort option. I want to know where the juice is.
What’s wrong with the current controversial sort?
Gives me stuff from months ago.
I would like to be able to more effectively filter posts of languages i can’t understand. Using memmy i have been trying to filter posts by key word and entering common words in every language, but it’s not changed how much i scroll past, and it’s hard to determine if it’s effective at all.
I just blocked a few foreign communities, maybe three of the biggest ones. solved it for me
Usually these posts are in language specific communities and the best option then is to just block the community (or the whole instance, if the whole instance is language specific).
Also the opposite. Allow the user to specify that they want to see ALL languages, regardless of which ones their instance supports. It seems weird that navigating to an instance without being logged in shows all posts but when you’re logged in they get automatically filtered to the instance-supported languages.
Are your language preferences set on your account? (open your account settings on the website rather than an app)
Or are these all posts with their language set to undefined?
I had not set these options yet. But they are set now. I am keeping undefined, not sure all that i would lose without it
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.
This should actually be #1. Last thing I want for the fediverse is for it to become a CP haven because we lack proper moderation. I recently received an amazing presentation on the issue of CP distribution from a seasoned officer, and CP is a genuine and dangerous issue. Go look up what sextortion is.
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 doesn’t 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 proposed an extension of the feature set. The current behaviour is still possible. You can use the added feature but you don’t have to.
The issue for me: The current landscape in lemmy has a lot of sparsely filled groups - I do not browse by group (filter by subscribed or all and sorted by new or hot).
In this view multiple identical posts with distributed replies are shown. This adds redundancy in the comments and reduces clarity.Edit: The idea rises the question, how the ownership (or relation) of a post to the group and its replies should be handled. Using an x-post-like approach is just one idea.
