More filters like the NSFW filter. “U.S. Politics” and “Elon Musk” filters would be nice
YES
Basically this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/rfcs/pull/4
Duplicate posts in my feed
I keep seeing 2 day old posts pretty high in the feed and it’s gotten annoying.
It would be nice if I was not logged out every few hours when browsing on iOS (safari). It’s annoying and I often just read threads logged out, then get sad when I can’t upvote without scrolling to the top to log in again.
Happens with Firefox on Linux too. Very annoying.
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
Yes this would be amazing!
This should really be implemented at either the browser or lemmy-ui/app level, not in the back end.
While we are speaking of it, please let users choose between languages (original and target) independently of system locale.
Sometimes I encounter social media posts auto translated (probably through Google translate) but languages detection is messed up. And the best part is there isn’t a menu to choose.
Integration with DeepL API like Misskey would be cool!
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.
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)
Kbin lists “related magazines” which are similar communities in the fediverse. Not sure how it works but I think it may be based on hashtags like this.
Recommendation algorithms are a big reason for the enshitification of other social media. You don’t need to be connected to everything everywhere all at once. Enjoy your handful of small communities.
Recommendation algorithms are fine as long as they’ce user-centric and opt-in.
I don’t want random posts to appear in my feed from communities I haven’t subscribed to, but I want to have a feature that shows me suggestions for communities when I ask for it. That’s a big difference. Right now it’s (too) hard to find these communities.
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 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.
Are your language preferences set on your account? (open your account settings on the website rather than an app)
Or are these all posts with their language set to undefined?
I had not set these options yet. But they are set now. I am keeping undefined, not sure all that i would lose without it
Also the opposite. Allow the user to specify that they want to see ALL languages, regardless of which ones their instance supports. It seems weird that navigating to an instance without being logged in shows all posts but when you’re logged in they get automatically filtered to the instance-supported languages.
Usually these posts are in language specific communities and the best option then is to just block the community (or the whole instance, if the whole instance is language specific).
I just blocked a few foreign communities, maybe three of the biggest ones. solved it for me
Some kind of a chatroom integrated into the forum ?(might be a bad idea don’t sue me . ) for stupid fun and close connections like it could be really barebones with only basic functionality i just think it could be fun.
Feel like it’d make more sense to just have an official connected Discord server or similar chatroom endorsed by the instance.
*Matrix
Don’t say the D word to me
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.
Reading some of these is making me really appreciate @ernest.
We have this one, it’s handy. There’s a list of crossposts and how many comments each has, you can click to where the acive discussions are.
Oh hey, I had no idea ernest was back. Great to have him back.
Yeah we heard from him recently. Hopefully his health is good now.
Make an easy way to open new comunitis/topics so i can finally make my loftcraftian horror board.
Allow multiple groups per post (use them like tags). This would have some interesting implications regarding moderation and the handling of replies to the said post.
Having multiple identical posts in different groups with distributed replies doesn’t feel ideal to me.
Having multiple identical posts in different groups with distributed replies doesn’t feel ideal to me.
I think this is actually a feature. You’re essentially trying to centralize communities, but communities are decentralised just like instances.
Why do we have multiple Technology communities? Because some people might like the mods or the rules in the other community better or maybe you can’t even access one of the communities because your instance is defederated from the instance with that community.
Just as one admin doesn’t have monopoly on the Fediverse, no mod has monopoly on a community.
Multiple communities is a feature, not a bug.
I proposed an extension of the feature set. The current behaviour is still possible. You can use the added feature but you don’t have to.
The issue for me: The current landscape in lemmy has a lot of sparsely filled groups - I do not browse by group (filter by subscribed or all and sorted by new or hot).
In this view multiple identical posts with distributed replies are shown. This adds redundancy in the comments and reduces clarity.Edit: The idea rises the question, how the ownership (or relating) of a post to the group and its related replies should be handled. Using an x-post-like approach is just one idea.
Remove the ability to post images
I wonder if down votes should be lightly nerfed. The idea would be to make it easier for people to post mildly unpopular opinions in hopes of furthering discussions and weakening brigading. I imagine there are a lot of people who comment once, get downvoted and then either never comment again, or only comment in ways that are safe and appeal to the community’s biases and sense of humor.
Something like requiring 10 downvotes to drop from 1 to 0.
Oh, it would also discourage spite downvoting since it would be hard for any one user to push a persons comment to 0.
Or since scores aren’t really even tracked across all of your posts and comments, we could just care a little less about how people are voting on our posts. If one isn’t well received it’s really not the end of the world.
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.
Migrating posts and comments is not possible with activitypub, as that would be rewriting history. But you could open up an issue for a user data only export, as that wouldn’t be too difficult to do.
Thanks for your reply! I looked into it and #3976 seems to be pretty much that because the “import” part of it was shot down.
I could create an issue for specifically gdpr style exports tho.
That’d be good, thx.
Speaking of which, a mechanism to manage posts from instances your account has previously migrated away from.
You mean like Mastodon ?
Also not resolved https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12423
Less jeanposting
On the mobile website when I tap the link into a post, read it and then hit the back button, I often end up on the page before the one I clicked into the link from, so like, I have to scroll to the bottom of the page and hit next and scroll down again to see the same link I originally clicked. Sometimes when this happens the “subscribed/local/all” and “new/hot/controversial” dialogs are reset as well and I’ve lost my spot in the feed entirely.
This doesn’t emulate the presumed intended functionality of reddit feeds where if you hit back you are at the exact spot in the feed where you clicked the original link.
