I would like to see recommendations for communities based on my communities. It's not trivial to solve, but discoverability isn't great right now.
Problem here is also that your instance may not know about all communities from the instances you're connected to. This could probably also be improved.
Yes, that's what I mean by not trivial, a centralized system can do analysis like this a lot easier. But even on your own instance, they could find the N users with the most overlapping subscriptions and check which communities they follow to give you recommendations.
I guess the 'simple' way of doing this would be adding tags to communities like 'art' 'hobbies' 'sport' 'football' etc. This might then let the app suggest others based on the tags you are subscribed to.
It would probably still require some AI/analytics to work out the links based on user activity in different communities/tags but I think it would make it easier to group interests and promote smaller communities.
It could also improve Lemmy visibility in Masterdon if the tags are used as hashtags or something. (Would require more work)
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.
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.
Cross instance post/comment deletion.
Sometimes I just don't want my comments to live forever and deleting shouldn't be impossible.
The fediverse is not set up for that. Everything is public and could be saved by an instance admin
Reports categories based on both the community, the instance of the community + the user to reduce report noise between mod actions and admin actions.
Post tags, to label content within a community.
Better language support, clearly indicating which ones are allowed when submitting something in the language dropdown, as well as basic language detection support.
When the instance is using pictrs, add a section in the user's settings to see all the uploaded pictures in that account, with the ability to delete any of them.
Better accessibility / a11y support for uploaded images with alt-text.
Support for svg-based emojis
For mods, the ability to make a pinned post made by one of the mods editable by other mods, which would be useful for FAQs, etc.
The ability to subscribe/follow a specific user, not just communities.
Passkeys support as a 2FA method.
Some basic builtin automod action, such as blocking known keywords from spammers from being posted, not just showing as removed as when using the slur filter in the admin settings.
EDIT: Something I just thought of
lemmy://u/mp3@lemmy.ca, lemmy://c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml, lemmy://c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml/p/1234567) or another syntax that makes more sense. That way you could let the OS redirect the query to the software of your choice, and define your home instance there.Now there are some issues to figure out before defining the URI handler, like how to refer to a post or comment that will redirect to the appropriate one on your home instance since post and comment currently have a unique ID on each instance, which makes them hard to directly address without doing some kind of conversion.
The ability to see all the communities if you search them up without having to find it via lemmyverse.net and inserting the specific fedi url to the search bar. It's a crucial thing for an average Joe, no matter it's due to how the fedi protocol works.
Guessing fixing child porn propagation isn't the highest priority?
Make it easier for server admins to connect/link to the child porn hash databases, scripts for autobans + deletion of any content, flagging + notify to other servers etc.
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.
Allow communities that contain the same content but exist on different instances to show each others content as if they were one community.
That sounds like it'd be fantastic for reading but, depending on how it's implemented, hell for posting.
Lemmy already aggregates posts from communities you follow into one feed. If it allowed the creation of an arbitrary number of sub-feeds configurable by the user, that would be incredible. But every user would have to build these on their own from scratch. Great for user choice, but no communities will come bundled by default, so small communities won't get a discovery boost.
If instead there was some kind of first-class notion of a "supercommunity" offered on the server side, where it acted as a transparent view of other communities, that'd be a great visibility boost for small communities. But if you tried to post to it, which underlying community would it post to? You'd have to either designate a default community to receive posts (which would be unfair to every other community there), randomize where it goes to (which would be a quagmire, what if your post is allowed in half of the communities present but rule-breaking in the others?), burden the user with choosing (which would be hell if there are a lot), or simply make it read-only. I don't really like any of these. It also raises hairy questions about who will control which communities are and are not part of the group, how the groupings react to defeds, etc.
There NEEDS to be an account migration option, with not only settings but also my saved posts and comments, own posts and comments etc. If not possible, at least allow an export in the style of a gddpr dump from the likes of facebook etc. to allow import at a later time when implemented.
My instance is shutting down at the end of the month (~500 users) and there is no good way to export my data. I would not be surprised if some of the 500 get frustrated and stop with lemmy.
Here is a hopefully minor thing...
Reddit has multireddits where you can have a few that follows a certain selection of subreddits under a label. You can have multiple ones defined as well. Therefore, you can have a view for all things news (following multiple news things) without having to view those things on your main home feed (as well as any other defined topics that you can think of).
It would be nifty if such a thing could exist inside of Lemmy as well.
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
Integration with DeepL API like Misskey would be cool!
I'd like to see more instances with 100-500 users.
I know that's a community thing, more than a Lemmy thing. I just don't feel like I have a wealth of choices. I'm still on lemmy.world and when I look around, I don't see a lot of medium-sized instances to migrate to.
Try to join an instance that is related to your geographical location or your country or state. That should result in a more even spread than what we have right now.
I’d love to see more country specific instances.
Not sure if this is Lemmy or the app I use, but I would like my saved content to appear in the order it was saved. It sucks when I save something old and am unable to find it when I look at my saved items.
Brigaders.
People with like 10 accounts that upvote themselves/downvote dissent.
Kbin votes are public so we can see brigades in action.
Apparently Lemmy votes are too but it's not accessible in the native interface, only from Kbin. Maybe a third party client will implement it.
It's super obvious when it happens to you, but it's not obvious when you see it in the wild. It would be a great improvement to the site to just show the users who downvoted/upvoted.
Admins and mods can see this in the latest version.
I need a proper controversial sort option. I want to know where the juice is.
Users that want to talk about tv shows that I watch and more places to do so
Where’s the multi-lemmies support
Saving is broken.
When showing a saved post or comment, show them in order of save instead of original post date. If I save an article, go to find it the next day, it's not there. Turns out it was sorted under 6mos ago when it was originally posted.
Sort by two filters at once (top this day, controversial this week, ...)
Controversial and others are literally useless, its always the same posts
a huge chunk of content is based around video nowadays. so i would like to see video support
I'd love to have to specifically choose for my comment to have the mod flair rather than it always be present.
I would like to be able to more effectively filter posts of languages i can’t understand. Using memmy i have been trying to filter posts by key word and entering common words in every language, but it’s not changed how much i scroll past, and it’s hard to determine if it’s effective at all.
Not a technical thing, but...
Better user interactions. I know not everyone came from reddit, but there are so many reddit-like interactions across Lemmy. I'm talking about not assuming good faith and jumping down people's throats. Low-effort comments (I'm guilty of this, too). The need to always be right and continue arguing for no reason.
It was tiring to see this on reddit over the years. But it's sad to see how much of that behavior has made its way to Lemmy.
With federation, however, there's not really a good way to solve this, since each instance, including self-hosted instances, determines their own moderation and "culture." But it would be something I'd like to see improved, even i we each have to do it ourselves.
On the technical side, absolutely mod tools. It's stunning how bad they are here. And I'm coming from reddit, where tools were poor.
I would like the ability for people to mod communities outside their instance.
This is already possible.
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