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?
Tags for posts
Linking one of the AO3 tag tutorials because tagging? is extremely powerful.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/41214669?view_full_work=true
I got tempbanned for 48 hours in a community recently after not noticing that a mod was objecting to some posts and had deleted a couple until after the ban went in place.
I’d kind of like to have some way to have a higher-priority indicator that a post was deleted or “message from moderator” or something. Preferably a different indicator from just “waiting regular messages”, and a way to view mod warnings or messages from moderators.
Some way of grouping Communities other than by name (not very useful). E.G. search on ‘Climate’ and you don’t get the name of one of the busiest communities.
In other words, group them a step up the taxonomy. Create 10 or 15 groups (sci/tech, history, music, culture, media, nature, issues, locations…), see what mods have to say about that list. (Could do worse than the Wikipedia taxonomy.)
You might want to have a look at Piefed topics: https://piefed.social/
Show me a list of posts and comments I upvoted.
That works with Boost for Lemmy, so apparantly the data is already there in the backend (and at least one frontend).
The voyager app has that feature.
The API supports that, but not all UIs do yet.
It’s on my “to do” list for my app.
Notification whenever there’s something in the mod queue of a board I moderate. At least I don’t see any such notification when using Voyager.
User migration between instances.
Yeah, user migration would be nice.
If it were a shift to simply using a keypair as the basis for identity, which would be a big change, then one could potentially transparently use any instance. That’d be neat from an instance reliability standpoint.
Keypair-based identity would also permit migrating an account from a permanently failed instance. Right now, the home instance is the authoritative source for the account. The problem with that is that if the instance goes away forever, then there’s no authoritative source left to determine who controls a user account. One of the use cases that I’m worried about is a big instance going down because the admins get in a car crash or something, and it killing all the user reputation that’s been built up, because nothing can be done after the permanent failure.
IIRC feddit.uk had a close call like this a while back.
Back-up/failover instances for communities and users.
Every user and every admin of a community should be able to assign a failover instance in case the main instance goes down temporarily or permanently. All relevant data (posts, upvotes, settings, password hashes, mod log) would be permanently syched so you could just switch over in case of a downtime and most importantly, no content would be lost.
If you implement a feature to set the failover instance as your new main instance, that would also implicitly allow you to migrate users and communities elsewhere.
The ability to hide posts that are the exact same but posted in Different places. It is very annoying to browse through 3,4,5 posts with the same text, same image and same poster just in different communities.
Lemmy does pretty much everything I want from this medium of communication. Wishlist features would be:
- A better way of linking posts, I see that there is an extenstion that fixes this issue but it would be nice for new users if this was built in
- Account migrations
- Multi Communities
- A way to assign a #tag to a community. For example If I make c/MMA then I would want every post there to federate with the tag #MMA and every post tagged #MMA to show up in c/MMA
- A way of scheduling posts within lemmy.
- Maybe a little icon that shows where things are being posted from. So if I see a user with a mastodon showing up in the feed with a formatting mistake ill know why.
- An option to follow a thread so you can be notified of all new comments even when its not your thread.
- It would be nice for instances to have a monthly server cost that tracks donations. I couldnt find any examples except reddit but something like this sitting in the sidebar would help show users how much these stuff all costs. There could be one for instances and development cost goals.
A way of scheduling posts within lemmy.
http://schedule.lemmings.world
Maybe a little icon that shows where things are being posted from. So if I see a user with a mastodon showing up in the feed with a formatting mistake ill know why.
That’s the Fediverse icon next to each comment and post?
It would be nice for instances to have a monthly server cost that tracks donations.
Lemmy.zip has that on their home community !home@lemmy.zip
Post flairs
Reddit Markdown lets one use italics inside links, like so:
I like [the author of *A Game of Thrones*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin).However, Lemmy does not presently support this syntax, renders it as:
I like the author of A Game of Thrones.
I frequently want to have partially-styled links like this, particularly italics.
EDIT: Okay, I just discovered that apparently this has been implemented since the last time I tried it. Thanks, devs!
Allow me to upvote posts and comments within search.
Super-compact mode for posts.
Allow me to upvote posts and comments within search.
Tesseract and Photon both allow that :)
Maybe others, too, but I’m most familiar with those two since I’ve been involved in their development (and they’re my daily drivers).
Detect AI prompts attached to images and not strip them from images on upload the way other EXIF data is.
Stripping EXIF location data to help keep people from being doxxed is one thing, but AI image generators try to make images with metadata to indicate that the images are AI generated, which helps avoid using them for training and lets people inspect how images are created. As of now, that gets stripped on upload. It’s particularly obnoxious over in !imageai@sh.itjust.works.
EDIT: Even nicer would be the option to leave EXIF location data attached, and merely warn a user at upload time about location data and provide the option to strip it, as I can certainly imagine communities where people would really like to be able to include precise location data with their images.
- frontpage by default is too old (sometimes 2+ days)
- better search
- maybe it’s just me but my tiny brain refuses to learn clicking on a title brings me to the comments and not the article. an option would be nice
- filters based on tags
- can mods post comments next to a title? this can be very helpful (e.g. “misleading?”)
Blocking instances
I think this one is already a thing as of a few months ago, but maybe its not rolled out to your instance yet.
Or the app they use maybe didn’t implement it yet.
As long as they have a version that supports it, you can flip over to the Web UI to set it, then go back to a native client, if need be.
Kbin/Mbin have supported instance blocking since forever. Dunno about piefed and sublinks.
True. There’s some good advice in this thread for features people might not be familiar with.
Already possible, I believe. At least on client level: I’ve blocked a lot of junk in Voyager
