Honestly I feel like Lenny needs flairs more than anything
I agree. It’s one of the number 1 features I miss from Reddit.
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?
I wonder if down votes should be lightly nerfed. The idea would be to make it easier for people to post mildly unpopular opinions in hopes of furthering discussions and weakening brigading. I imagine there are a lot of people who comment once, get downvoted and then either never comment again, or only comment in ways that are safe and appeal to the community’s biases and sense of humor.
Something like requiring 10 downvotes to drop from 1 to 0.
Oh, it would also discourage spite downvoting since it would be hard for any one user to push a persons comment to 0.
Or since scores aren’t really even tracked across all of your posts and comments, we could just care a little less about how people are voting on our posts. If one isn’t well received it’s really not the end of the world.
Accountability and transparency in moderation. You aren’t even made aware when you’re banned from a place, you have to go out of your way to see and even then you have zero recourse in changing the decision if it was made in error. It’s even worse when you get banned from your instance because it’s just suddenly you can’t log in and you don’t even know why. You can’t even transfer to a new instance. Pretty shit for something that can be done on the whim of a single person.
Somewhat related, as Lemmy continues to balkanize between pro-fascist instances (such as lemmy world, sh.ithole, and beehaw) and those explicitly against it (lemmy ml, lemmygrad, hexbear) the only way for users to opt out of interacting with users from those instances is to get yourself banned from the instance itself. I don’t mince words and have a zero-tolerance policy for injustice so it’s not hard for a person like me to catch those bans, but that’s hardly ideal for the federation as a whole to have to rely on something they can’t control in order to have a tolerable experience not constantly marred by some of the shittiest harassing assholes the federation has to offer.
EDIT: Maybe outright comment blocking on instances is a bit much, but absolutely auto-hide should be a thing.
pro-fascist instances (such as […] beehaw)
What.
Oh wait, you’re the nutball who starts calling people rapists and nazi pedophiles when you don’t like them, aren’t you? I saw you throw a spectacular hissy fit on some meme post.
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.
I’ve made a post a few days ago. I’d argue we should make a proper distinction. Adult content and NSFW isn’t the same thing. Currently everything from sex education to gore and death is the same category. I think it’s really not. NSFW tags help so you can scroll through things in an open-plan office or while commuting. Porn is porn and gore is gore. I think we shouldn’t oversimplify this but keep the nuances and have different categories. Also I’d like to not mix stuff like sex education which might be fine, and minors ask those questions all the time on Reddit with other things like fetish.
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.
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.
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.
Users that want to talk about tv shows that I watch and more places to do so
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I do. I go to the twittoverse to hear about asian-drama but that a bubble that don’t discuss other type of tv: american show, turkish soap, telenovela, … we could so many community.
Where’s the multi-lemmies support
Is there a way to watch old threads? I want to tag an empty discussion, get notifications when it becomes active (maybe digest mode to avoid spam)
I have FOMO on good content that isn’t active yet.
Is this already a thing? FYI using sync app most of the time.
I just save them (I use Voyager) and look back later at my saved posts (or comments).
I just use another app that doesn’t hide read posts - it’s a shitty workaround and really only functions for my local communities with little turnover, though
Sometimes when I’ve found new communities on non local instances I’m unable to subscribe directly and I get a screen where it asks me what instance I’m subscribing from and when I click the only suggestion “lemmy.world” it doesn’t recognize it as valid. I know you can subscribe to these communities in distant instances by using the local search bar with an exclamation point in front of it but it’s a convoluted process and could be streamlined.
Yeah the whole searching for other instances is painful 😣
Another thing I just ran into, if I’m linked to the on-instance version of a thread on an instance other than my home, it says I need to log in or register to comment. How do I switch to the version of that same post as seen from my home instance? I wouldn’t need to register a separate account because I see a lot of off-instance posts on my home feed. Perplexing.
On the mobile website when I tap the link into a post, read it and then hit the back button, I often end up on the page before the one I clicked into the link from, so like, I have to scroll to the bottom of the page and hit next and scroll down again to see the same link I originally clicked. Sometimes when this happens the “subscribed/local/all” and “new/hot/controversial” dialogs are reset as well and I’ve lost my spot in the feed entirely.
This doesn’t emulate the presumed intended functionality of reddit feeds where if you hit back you are at the exact spot in the feed where you clicked the original link.
In-line translation features for non-English communities (in my case) would be very helpful and would exceed Reddit functionality, which is something I think Lemmy should strive toward
This should really be implemented at either the browser or lemmy-ui/app level, not in the back end.
While we are speaking of it, please let users choose between languages (original and target) independently of system locale.
Sometimes I encounter social media posts auto translated (probably through Google translate) but languages detection is messed up. And the best part is there isn’t a menu to choose.
Integration with DeepL API like Misskey would be cool!
Yes this would be amazing!
For a technology which was born because of petty censorship on Reddit, the main Lemmy instance sure does do a lot of petty censorship.
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.
