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?

  • cybervseas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    5 months ago

    Some way of linking to a post somewhere on Lemmy that will open up the post in your logged in instance of Lemmy.

  • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 months ago

    Alongside others mentioned (tags/flairs, multi-communities, keyword filtering, etc.) another feature I’d like to see added/improved is notification settings.

    Something like…

    In account settings:

    • Enable/disable all notifications.
    • Enable/disable post reply notifications.
    • Enable/disable comment reply notifications.

    For others’ posts/comments and per posts/comments:

    • Enable/disable post reply notifications.
    • Enable/disable comment reply notifications.

    With those settings you could more easily tune out all notifications or only opt into those you’d like to see, and opt out of those you’re done with (say your post/comment got popular and you’ve had your fill from the replies).

    Unrelated to notification settings, it would also be nice to be able to block communities from the front page via the … More menu in the default web UI.

  • weker01@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    5 months ago

    Some sort of super community that are searchable (i.e. not something Clientside) and span multiple servers. The fragmentation of having the same few communities everywhere is my biggest issue here.

    In general I want more and better discoverability of communities anywhere.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    5 months ago

    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.

      • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        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.

  • kalkulat@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 months ago

    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.)

  • ToffeeIsForClosers@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    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.

  • Aa!@lemmy.world
    31·
    5 months ago

    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.

  • ace_garp@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 months ago

    Some sort of automatic down-sampling feature before posting, for images, video and maybe audio.

    DeltaChat has this built in to minimise file-sizes before posting.

    Something like this would reduce plenty of bandwith/processor use/carbon etc. Increase speed of loading pages.

    With an option to click to see the original media too.