easy subscribe links - like, click on it and then subscribe, not the current method (which totally functions but its cumbersome and unwieldly).
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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Ways to group communities to browse at once rather than just local, all, and subscribed. A multi-Lemmy if you will.
This would be particularly useful now that a ton of tiny but similar places are springing up and vying for attention. That way you wouldn't have to choose which to browse.
When i scroll on the website, the website header does not follow. Meaning if I want to go somewhere or refresh the feed, i have to scroll way up to do so. Its a bit frustrating.
Default to showing subscribed communities, rather than local ones. De-emphasise the server in certain areas (eg community list) - I think the community is more important than the server itβs on and having it there so prominently causes confusion about itβs importance.
I can see why it has the server focus but Iβd argue most people want to join a general server with a wide reach rather than something isolated.
Though this is me trying to use Lemmy as βdistributed Redditβ so maybe I just donβt get it.
User flairs!
There is an open issue already for some time. Hopefully with the new user influx this gets more attention. Certain communities, like sports, feel incomplete without flairs.
The ability to merge/join communities across instances. Right now, there's lots of duplicated communities - which isn't a big problem, but I feel that it'll hinder adoption as it fragments the audience for a given topic.
Edit: also worth saying that it seems like that the if the instance hosting a community goes away, so does the community.
Yes, it is worth saying. In fact I was scrolling for this. There should be a way to adopt refugee communities with all its posts from other instances so as to not lose all the information when the server goes down for good. It needs consensus, but only from admins of original community and the new host, this last to prevent server abuse. Also, if communities can get merged, the list of instances hosting the community would serve both as redundant backup and as distributed (instead of fragmented) service.
There needs to be a way to link to a post in an instance agnostic way.
For example, this post is in !asklemmy@lemmy.ml and the id is 1255605, but that id number won't work on any other instance.
If someone shares a link with me like https://lemmy.ml/post/1255605 that will take me to lemmy.ml, where I'm not logged in. If I have an account on lemmy.world then the only way for me to comment on this post is to navigate to lemmy.world/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml manually and then literally look at the feed to find this post. It's a pain in the butt for new / current threads but will be a huge pain for older threads.
When people link other instances in posts or comments, it should automatically be translated to view it on your own instance instead of having to take it and search for it.
More for jerboa, but RIF had an option to confirm you want to go back/refresh feed. My palm accidentally hits the back button often, and I have to start scrolling back from the top.
Even better yet, Relay had a dedicated button that hid all posts you'd already viewed so you never had to worry about accidentally refreshing your feed as you could just hide everything and go back to where you were. It even had an option to automatically mark posts you scrolled past as read so you didn't have to open posts that you were only going to read the title of.
Karma
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Iβm actually curious the reason why Lemmy does not have a karma equivalent.
I donβt miss it since I rarely checked my reddit karma but it does have pros and cons.
Karma might work on a per instance basis, but if implemented on a federation wide scale you'd have to trust every instance. It would be far too easy to artificially increase your karma with your own rogue instance just by editing the database.
Custom CSS themes, for the main interface, but also maybe on a per-community basis? I liked most of what I'd see on Reddit.
User and post flares!
More of an app than a platform feature, but the ability to collapse all child comments.
On Jerboa at least you can do this by tapping on the comment
True, but I mean for all comments in the thread at once.
If you tap the top comment, it also hides all of the replies under it. Am I misunderstanding what you mean by thread?
I just tried it on jerboa! It works!
Turn off porn on the "all" thread without having to block other NSFW content. It's getting pretty bad blocking three or four porn communities every time I try to browse, but not being able to block the instances they're all coming from.
I always thought that NSFW was too vague a term. One person's NSFW is different to another's.
What would work better is specific content tags. That would work well for trigger warnings too.
It would cover porn: nudity, softcore, hardcore
But also content themes: Alcoholism, drug taking, violence, suicide, war, guns
It could even be used for spoilers.
Users could then select the specific themes they didn't want to see. For better UX you could have a slider that had pre selected levels. "strict", "relaxed", "everything".
Posts often present content warnings behind spoiler tags at the start. The idea being that some users don't want the story spoiled by hearing what themes it contains. That's why I believe this system would work. Rather than having the content warnings visible it all happens in the background through structured data. Your app already knows if it's content you don't want to see so it either hides it, or perhaps blurs it with a warning that you likely don't want to read it.
My only issue is the search function to find and subscribe to communities, and links are opening up on browser and not jerboa.
Other than that I'm having a fantastic experience.
Copy all subscriptions from one account to another, adapting as necessary across servers.
Hopefully a multi-community (multi Reddit type) feature
user notes/tags editable anywhere the username shows, and shown next to the username thereafter.
a way to make the screen take the full space without whitespace, like old.reddit, in the settings
Ability to hide posts
Ability for a user to place communities they find into a catagory/multi-lemmy that they can scroll. (Like a multi-reddit)
That way the fragmented communities all of the same subject spread across all the instances can be grouped together by the user.
User creats an awww multireddit/catagory or whatever and inside it they put awww@beehaw.org, and aww@lemmy.ml, and awwwwww@sh.itjustworks.
Keeps things decentralized on the back end but ties things together for the user.
Maybe... we can call them Cities...? You know... since it's made up of a bunch of communities?
Jerboa could use a hide post option from RedReader.
Better ways to explore the communities available. Also maybe improving the Android app ecosystem.
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