Just wanted to ask: what do you not like in Lemmy (Lemmy as communities, server and clients)?
This is just a way for me to get some feedback from the community.
Better cross-posting detection support, subscribe to all 3 communities and I’d appreciate Lemmy could understand that this is the same link in those 3 communities and visualize it as a cross-post:
To name a few big ones for me:
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spoilers
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flairs/tagging
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a better mod portal
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automod bots
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database stability
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wiki support
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saved posts being in the ORDER I SAVED THEM not the order they were posted. That’s basic functionality man!
ITT:
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Following users
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better crossposting
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more users ( I think the other issues cause this one a bit)
Spoilers work, do it like this:
Some visible text
And the text you want hidden
::: spoiler Some visible text And the text you want hidden :::Works on web and on Jerboa.
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Yes, again, thay is not the spoiler I’m talking about, I’m talking about a post thay specifically has a built in spoiler tag, like the NSFW tag
Yeah I agree, that would be nice. It goes along with moderation tools I think.
Tagging other users already is a feature in Connect, spoilers (in textbodies) work on all apps that I used and bots are getting made right now and it is only a matter of time until they are as ubiquitous as on reddit.
Not tagging other users, tagging posts, flairs. Spoilers via markdown yes, but no tag to mark something as a show spoiler.
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Populated niche communities. The Reddit Exodus created a big blip that now, a month later, well it seems to have died down.
A few thousand people gave Lemmy a shot, and after lemmy.world had issues with the traffic, and went down a lot this past thirty days, I think people just stopped trying.
This is the best Reddit alternative out there and still it’s got such poor adoption because it’s so different under the hood.
I myself feel I’m missing out on so much content here as was available on Reddit, but I’m trying to actually make a difference by not going back.
I’m actually taking my time to get into it. Many of us are. I’m gonna start contributing in my niche community as soon as I feel confortable enough. And just yesterday I actually saw thst community had several new posts: this things take simply time…
Yup, just gonna keep participating here, Lemmy will continue to improve over time and get sleeker and more appealing, and we’ll be ready the next time reddit fucks something up
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individual option to block instances on your own account
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something similar to what reddit calls multireddits which are basically custom feed collections that allows you to save certain sibreddits to it to only have a feed of specific subreddits you can open up and browse
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Diversity in its population
What do you mean by diversity?
People who use distributions other than Arch presumably.
I feel like the main lacking point would be a small user base. I’m new to Lemmy as of a few months ago since the Reddit API changes. I wish more people knew of the other options out there other than Reddit. It’s really only a minority of people who left and jumped to Lemmy.
A way to block porn instances
Yeah and can you even block instances at all? I feel like every 10 posts I have to block another community that uses another language. With reddit I never had this issue
Alernately, a convenient way to view only SWF posts, both SFW & NSFW posts, or only NSFW posts …
For that last, and I am sure many other uses, a way to only see subscribed communities from a given instance - we shouldn’t have to create new accounts on every instance we consider useful enough to do this, and for those instances, they shouldn’t have to bear the burden of everyone who considers them so useful creating accounts with them and visitting them directly every time the fancy strikes; That’s effectively just punishing the most useful and popular instances with additional server costs.
EDIT: Forgot to mention: Lemmyverse.com community search already handles NSFW exactly as I am suggesting.
Doesnt nsfw option work
It does but titles still show up like “pegging my sister” or “5 nights inside Freddy” so I would like the option to block. I’m using liftoff but it looks like blocking doesn’t work
Right, then we hope to get a feature to be able to ban communities. I guess there is no issue opened for that(as far as i can remember), it would be great to open a issue for that.
I can hide nsfw posts with sync for lemmy.
Let me group up custom lists of communities, just like custom subreddits on Reddit
- Filtering posts with keywords and hiding posts manually.
Certain topics cause unnecessary anxiety, on reddit they were easy to avoid with RES. Here the only way to remove a post from haunting you from your timeline is to block the poster, which is bit overkill.
Could you explain a little bit this concept please? This will go to write a document that describes the next milestones for Lemmy.
- Filtering posts with keywords
User can specify keywords that are used to filter and exclude the users own subscription timeline from posts that include the words in the post-topic.
For example: User adds the keyword “died” in the settings to a filter list. The topic “Great actor of movie X has died” will now not appear in the feeds. There also could be a more advanced version of this that allows to assign keywords to different communities.
- Hiding posts manually
In every post, the tools in the “three dot overflow”-menu should include an option for “Hide post”, which makes that post disappear from the feed.
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I mean… it’s clearly “users”.
The lemmy world is organically growing, we are seeing an uptic in users every month on most instances, even excluding bots. I think as the experience gets less glitchy, lemmy will continue to get more popular.
Search
Yes, that’s a workaround, but I generally want to search within a community for older posts, and going to a separate service sucks.
I use that site to find new communities, which is fine occasionally, but it shouldn’t be expected to be part of the normal workflow.
As a site admin, I really wish it was easier to modify the content on the front page. We’ve had some interesting ideas over here, like linking to some simple online games and posting high scores for the site, or maybe just adding some analytics boxes to the site. But for us that’s difficult.
A lot of our ideas come from a shared experience in BBSes from the 90s, where they had game doors, ascii art, and other fun site-specific elements. Technology has changed, but there are modern equivalents to all of those things that we wish we could implement.
Stability
Like others have said, it’s the niche communities. I still go to reddit some times because of small subreddits like r/progressionfantasy, or the subreddits for a book series.
I still miss the r/imaginary… network of subreddits but I’m not going to use reddit
I don’t like pages, I want infinity scrolling. I want bigger previews on images without having to open the thread.
