Just wanted to ask: what do you not like in Lemmy (Lemmy as communities, server and clients)?
This is just a way for me to get some feedback from the community.
Better cross-posting detection support, subscribe to all 3 communities and I’d appreciate Lemmy could understand that this is the same link in those 3 communities and visualize it as a cross-post:
To name a few big ones for me:
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spoilers
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flairs/tagging
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a better mod portal
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automod bots
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database stability
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wiki support
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saved posts being in the ORDER I SAVED THEM not the order they were posted. That’s basic functionality man!
ITT:
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Following users
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better crossposting
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more users ( I think the other issues cause this one a bit)
Tagging other users already is a feature in Connect, spoilers (in textbodies) work on all apps that I used and bots are getting made right now and it is only a matter of time until they are as ubiquitous as on reddit.
Not tagging other users, tagging posts, flairs. Spoilers via markdown yes, but no tag to mark something as a show spoiler.
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I feel like the main lacking point would be a small user base. I’m new to Lemmy as of a few months ago since the Reddit API changes. I wish more people knew of the other options out there other than Reddit. It’s really only a minority of people who left and jumped to Lemmy.
I mean… it’s clearly “users”.
The lemmy world is organically growing, we are seeing an uptic in users every month on most instances, even excluding bots. I think as the experience gets less glitchy, lemmy will continue to get more popular.
I suppose the big ones for me:
- The ability to follow people which would unlock a lot more interoperability between other Fediverse services.
- A wiki for each community.
edit: And
- Better moderation tools, especially merging or moving posts.
Mastodon interoperability for me too
Kbin has follower support, it’s just hit or miss an which federated instances update properly, for example misskey doesn’t show me posts newer than a week old
Populated niche communities. The Reddit Exodus created a big blip that now, a month later, well it seems to have died down.
A few thousand people gave Lemmy a shot, and after lemmy.world had issues with the traffic, and went down a lot this past thirty days, I think people just stopped trying.
This is the best Reddit alternative out there and still it’s got such poor adoption because it’s so different under the hood.
I myself feel I’m missing out on so much content here as was available on Reddit, but I’m trying to actually make a difference by not going back.
Yup, just gonna keep participating here, Lemmy will continue to improve over time and get sleeker and more appealing, and we’ll be ready the next time reddit fucks something up
As a site admin, I really wish it was easier to modify the content on the front page. We’ve had some interesting ideas over here, like linking to some simple online games and posting high scores for the site, or maybe just adding some analytics boxes to the site. But for us that’s difficult.
A lot of our ideas come from a shared experience in BBSes from the 90s, where they had game doors, ascii art, and other fun site-specific elements. Technology has changed, but there are modern equivalents to all of those things that we wish we could implement.
Bring back Legend of the Red Dragon.
Heck yeah! I can’t believe how popular that game was. Every time I bring up this era, everyone talks about it.
I was a big Tradewars 2002 fan, myself. You can still play it, which is what made me start to think about connecting it to Lemmy somehow. That, and Nethack.
I’m wondering if you could hook that into the idea of a wiki because an instance could have one as well as a community.
I’m thinking, in the same way a community has a collapsible panel about it (which could become the front page of its wiki), so an instance could have the same. You could then link through from there to other wiki pages or external resources as you liked.
- Filtering posts with keywords and hiding posts manually.
Certain topics cause unnecessary anxiety, on reddit they were easy to avoid with RES. Here the only way to remove a post from haunting you from your timeline is to block the poster, which is bit overkill.
Could you explain a little bit this concept please? This will go to write a document that describes the next milestones for Lemmy.
- Filtering posts with keywords
User can specify keywords that are used to filter and exclude the users own subscription timeline from posts that include the words in the post-topic.
For example: User adds the keyword “died” in the settings to a filter list. The topic “Great actor of movie X has died” will now not appear in the feeds. There also could be a more advanced version of this that allows to assign keywords to different communities.
- Hiding posts manually
In every post, the tools in the “three dot overflow”-menu should include an option for “Hide post”, which makes that post disappear from the feed.
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Some niche communities are lacking, though I don’t see them existing/growing without a large increase in userbase, since they’re you know, niche. Cities for instance… some I used to frequent on reddit exist on Lemmy, but are naturally not as active. Also I used to talk in (hooray) a couple subs about chronic illnesses which are like, 1% or less of the population, maybe more since sometimes it would be family members or parents talking. Celiac, type 1 diabetes. Same as cities there are communities about those but they are not very active yet.
Reddit used to be niche, things take time
Sure, I’m not surprised since as noted, these are niche interests. I could contribute by posting articles or writing content myself to help it grow.
Dedicated users posting is the best way to slowly grow communities like that. It’s much less likely others will post if it seems like a ghost town, but if someone is posting others are much more likely to join in. And at the very least there’ll be content to engage with when new people find it.
Like others have said, it’s the niche communities. I still go to reddit some times because of small subreddits like r/progressionfantasy, or the subreddits for a book series.
Wiki Communities please!
Stability
- The ability to post the same post to multiple community’s
- a native video player / video support
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