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.
I believe there was a new threadiverse software that has build what you describe. But I can’t remember the name.
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.
This should actually be #1. Last thing I want for the fediverse is for it to become a CP haven because we lack proper moderation. I recently received an amazing presentation on the issue of CP distribution from a seasoned officer, and CP is a genuine and dangerous issue. Go look up what sextortion is.
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Reports categories based on both the community, the instance of the community + the user to reduce report noise between mod actions and admin actions.
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Post tags, to label content within a community.
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Better language support, clearly indicating which ones are allowed when submitting something in the language dropdown, as well as basic language detection support.
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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.
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Better accessibility / a11y support for uploaded images with alt-text.
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Support for svg-based emojis
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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.
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The ability to subscribe/follow a specific user, not just communities.
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Passkeys support as a 2FA method.
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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
- A URI protocol handler to refer to communities, users, post and comments in an instance-independant way (ie:
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.
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Cross instance post/comment deletion.
Sometimes I just don’t want my comments to live forever and deleting shouldn’t be impossible.
I don’t know, man, your comments are works of art.
Nah, not mine, piss takes and sarcasm mostly.
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.
Duplicate posts in my feed
a huge chunk of content is based around video nowadays. so i would like to see video support
I love video as much as the next person, but hosting a video platform is incredible expensive and potential difficult especially for a global audience.
I think that might put a large burden on people hosting it. That isn’t even talking about people abusing it for like copyrighted content.
I’ve been adding some more support for torrents to try to get ahead of this.
Brigaders.
People with like 10 accounts that upvote themselves/downvote dissent.
That’s a problem not a solution.
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.
I also noticed sometimes after getting into an argument it’s like they go through my profile and start downvoting everything. I feel like any vote that comes from someone’s profile (rather than in the wild) should be flagged as suspicious because it feels like they’re never genuine.
Better default UI and general refinement
Some system to make sure communities are on sync.
theyre working on a new lemmy “lepton” ui, so a better default ui is in the works, in the meantime, you may like the photon ui
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.
I fixed that recently, it’ll be in the next release.
Honestly I feel like Lenny needs flairs more than anything
Accountability and transparency in moderation. You aren’t even made aware when you’re banned from a place, you have to go out of your way to see and even then you have zero recourse in changing the decision if it was made in error. It’s even worse when you get banned from your instance because it’s just suddenly you can’t log in and you don’t even know why. You can’t even transfer to a new instance. Pretty shit for something that can be done on the whim of a single person.
Somewhat related, as Lemmy continues to balkanize between pro-fascist instances (such as lemmy world, sh.ithole, and beehaw) and those explicitly against it (lemmy ml, lemmygrad, hexbear) the only way for users to opt out of interacting with users from those instances is to get yourself banned from the instance itself. I don’t mince words and have a zero-tolerance policy for injustice so it’s not hard for a person like me to catch those bans, but that’s hardly ideal for the federation as a whole to have to rely on something they can’t control in order to have a tolerable experience not constantly marred by some of the shittiest harassing assholes the federation has to offer.
EDIT: Maybe outright comment blocking on instances is a bit much, but absolutely auto-hide should be a thing.
Sort by two filters at once (top this day, controversial this week, …)
Controversial and others are literally useless, its always the same posts
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.
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.
