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?
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.
I’ve said before, but part of my biggest gripe with Lemmy is the process of curating a decent feed. A lot of new users will see the mess of posts in All, including political extremists, an ever growing list of fetish porn communities, and bottom of the barrel shitposts, and they won’t be interested in spending a couple hours blocking and subscribing to things before the feed is usable.
One way to address this is to give instance admins better tools to curate a default subscriptions and block list for their users. Allow admins to create what they think is the most accessible feed, but also allow users to customize it as they see fit.
I whitelist rather than blacklist. I browse Subscribed normally. I think that under the existing system, that’s the only realistic way to scale. Hit lemmyverse.net or similar periodically to look for new, interesting communities, but the whole thing is gonna be a firehose.
I do understand that BlueSky has some sort of “curated lists” feature that sounds interesting, and I’ve thrown around some ideas around having curation decoupled from community/instance bans and global voting.
I’d like to be able to mark specific top level posts as ‘don’t show me this again’.
This is available in Lemmy 0.19.5, which almost all instances use except Lemmy.world
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.
Maybe try a different web app? Most 3rd party Lemmy webapps are miles ahead of Lemmy-UI when it comes to user experience.
Comment type taxonomy:
-funny -informative -offtopic -redundant
Etc
Voters can select a category
Now I can browse in serious mode, funny mode, etc
Found the Slashdotter.
Ability to search Saved Posts, and RSS for them too like Reddit has.
I save a lot of handy things on Lemmy but it’s really difficult to find them again later. It also seems to sort by original post creation date instead of when I saved them so this makes it even more difficult to find later.
I love the Old Lemmy webiste, I wish there was a way to incorporate a RES type of extension for Lemmy
I mean, it’s doable now, but I think that the limiting factor is just the userbase. More developers using the platform, more people interested in writing code for browser extensions.
There is a lemmy/kbin assistant extension for Firefox, which is far, far more basic than RES, but provides one critical feature that I regularly use – being able to view a post on one’s home instance. So people have done work on these.
Also, if by “Old Lemmy”, you mean mlmym, that’s not merely the website. It’s an alternate Web UI that instances can run alongside the regular one. My home instance does so at https://old.lemmy.today/
EDIT: Your home instance does as well, at https://old.lemmy.world/
Add an equivalent to multireddits. I miss that so much
That can be done client-side. I don’t use the feature, but from a brief glance, it looks like the Android client I use when I’m on a phone, Eternity, supports it.
Probably slightly less efficient than supporting it at the API level.
show me reports I have made.
Post title translations.
I want to be able to put alt text on an image post upload. Accessibility is cool.
It is implemented on Lemmy 0.19.4. Lemmy.world is one of the few instances still running 0.19.3
It’s an option on lemmy.today when doing an image post.
My guess is that it’s probably just in a newer release, and it’ll show up at the next update your home instance does.
lemmy.today is running 0.19.5.
lemmy.world, your home instance, is presently running 0.19.3.
That’s great news, thank you! It’s something I’ve been asking for since I first began using Lemmy, but there didn’t seem to be interest in implementing it. I’m very glad to see that it’s been reconsidered.
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)
Filter posts based on a keywords from the title/content.
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.
