Please post one top-level comment per complaint about Lemmy. You can reply with ideas or links to existing GitHub issues that could address the complaints. This will help identify both common complaints and potential solutions.
I believe there are a large number of feature requests on Lemmy's GitHub page, making it difficult for developers to prioritize what's truly important to users. I propose creating a periodic post on Lemmy asking users to list their complaints and suggestions. This way, developers can better understand the community's biggest pain points and focus their efforts accordingly. The goal is to provide constructive feedback so developers can prioritize the most pressing issues.
Please keep discussion productive and focused on specific problems you've encountered. Avoid vague complaints or feature wishes without justification for why they are important.
Here is a summary of all the complaints from the previous post from six months ago. It's interesting to see how many issues have been solved and whether or not developers value user feedback.
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• Instance-agnostic links (links that don't pull you into a different instance when clicked)
• Ability to group communities into a combined feed, similar to multireddits
• Front page algorithm shows too many posts from the same community in a row, including reposts
• Need to separate NSFW and NSFL posts
• Basic mod tools
• Proper cross-posting support
• Ability to view upvoted posts
• Post tagging/flairs and search by flair
• Better permalink handling for long comment chains
• Combine duplicate posts from different instances into one
• Allow filtering/blocking by regex patterns
• Avatar deletions not federating across instances
• Option to default to "Top" comment sort in settings
• Migration of profile (posts, comments, upvotes, favs, etc.) between instances
• Mixed feed combining subscribed/local/all based on custom ratios
• Categories of blocklists (language, NSFW, etc)
• Group crossposts to same post as one item
• Feedback for users waiting for admin approval
• Propose mixed feed merging subscribed/local/all feeds
• Ability to subscribe to small/niche communities easier
• Reduce duplicate crossposts showing up
• Scroll to top when clicking "Next" page
• User flair support
• Better language detection/defaults for communities
• Ability to subscribe to category "bundles" of similar meta-communities
• RSS feed support
• Option to turn off reply notifications
• Easier way to subscribe across instances
• Default to "Subscribed" view in community list
• Fix inbox permalinks not navigating properly
• API documentation in OpenAPI format
• Notification badges should update without refresh
• Single community mode for instances
• Reduce drive-by downvoting in small communities
• More powerful front page sorting algorithm
I like Lemmy. My only complaint is that I have some other users that stalk my account, if they don’t like my comment on a particular post. They will go through my past comments and posts, to use that content in abusive remarks towards me. The same thing was happening on Reddit. The way they were typing made me think it was my estranged husband and some of his friends. They have been harassing me online for years. I don’t think the mods and developers can do much about that, though, unless they notice the IP addresses on the other users all come from the same area.
Anyway, I like Lemmy. For the most part, discussions seem more intellectual than the ones I have found on Reddit, lately. It just seems to draw a different crowd of people.
Profile Privacy Settings #4223: Allow users to control who can view their profile feed/activity, with options like public, visible only to friends/followers, or completely private.
You’ve already been banned from two communities for being a Nazi troll, so maybe it’s not out of nowhere: https://lemmy.world/modlog?userId=6799954
Also, you recently came here because your Reddit account was recently suspended: https://www.reddit.com/user/DragonTangram88/
I’m not a Nazi troll. I’m not German and I’m not even antisemitic or racist. I didn’t say anything that was antisemitic or racist.
You can say that ’till you’re blue in the face, but the mods seem to disagree, and the modlog shows some of the racist & transmisic comments & posts you’ve made and the mods have removed.
Your account is only two weeks old, and 20 of your comments contain the word Nazi, often in the context of you claiming not to be one. And you keep pretending to misunderstand Nazism as a genetic trait instead of an ideology: https://lemmy.world/search?creatorId=6799954q=nazi
She will tell you for the hundredth time that she was born in 1988 and is 35 going on 36. She’s pretty consistent in that claim.
CreatorID 6799954 now returns “unknown”, which I think means the user account was purged.
That’s good because if you let a Nazi into your bar, the next thing you know you have a Nazi bar.
Doesn't the "block user" feature solve this? Even if they say something you'd never see it once they're blocked. Or are you saying they create new accounts for each new abusive post?
There was one time on Reddit, that I blocked a user, and then a new account appeared and harassed me. I think it might have been my spouse. I let it go, but I made an account on Lemmy and moved over here soon after that.
Some of the comments have been abusive remarks out of nowhere, like someone suddenly calling me a “Nazi”, or demanding that I prove I’m female. My husband is a white guy that typically only dated white girls in the past. His mom is from Germany. I might be experiencing harassment because he doesn’t have someone to sleep with now.
That's so weird. I write controversial stuff here all day every day and I've never had this happen to me. Not here and not on reddit either.
Welp I tried to do it to you but looking at your post history you just seem chill
Yeah going thru her post history left me with the impression that if everyone seems to have a problem with you then maybe you're the problem.
This person is stalking me and digging through my account to find things to bully me about. This is the second time tonight that I have opened my inbox to find this user claiming they have dug through my account history.
Just block them? I block people all the time. It really makes for a better experience.
I thought I had. Why is that person still allowed to comment in reply to my comments?
I just checked. This user was already blocked by me.
Weird. I haven't experienced that before.
It is weird. The writing style, of the commenters who have verbally lashed out at me, seems to be the same in every abusive comment. Outside of social media, I have had strangers chase me out of job assignments by telling me that someone wants to shoot me. That’s been happening for about 3 years. Four years ago, someone hit me intentionally in a crosswalk and told me, “get up, it could have been worse.” Luckily, I had a witness who saw it happen, and he told the police that the driver appeared to have run me over intentionally. I didn’t even know the witness. He just saw the woman run me down in the crosswalk and heard what she said. If my husband didn’t send all of this after me, then some gang is after me.
Aren't you paranoid?