Often, its asked what the fediverse or lemmy needs more of in terms of content, but are there any specific features or functionality you really feel are lacking?

  • Fribbtastic@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    The ability to hide posts that are the exact same but posted in Different places. It is very annoying to browse through 3,4,5 posts with the same text, same image and same poster just in different communities.

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    Some way of grouping Communities other than by name (not very useful). E.G. search on ‘Climate’ and you don’t get the name of one of the busiest communities.

    In other words, group them a step up the taxonomy. Create 10 or 15 groups (sci/tech, history, music, culture, media, nature, issues, locations…), see what mods have to say about that list. (Could do worse than the Wikipedia taxonomy.)

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      19 hours ago

      It’s an option on lemmy.today when doing an image post.

      My guess is that it’s probably just in a newer release, and it’ll show up at the next update your home instance does.

      lemmy.today is running 0.19.5.

      lemmy.world, your home instance, is presently running 0.19.3.

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    18 hours ago

    Resizeable inline images. At least some way to show them enlarged, the way one can with images that are posted. Kbin had it, and I’m sure mbin does, but the Lemmy Web UI does not, which means manually adding a link beneath the image if you want people to be able to conveniently view images full-size, particularly on touch interfaces.

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    20 hours ago

    I got tempbanned for 48 hours in a community recently after not noticing that a mod was objecting to some posts and had deleted a couple until after the ban went in place.

    I’d kind of like to have some way to have a higher-priority indicator that a post was deleted or “message from moderator” or something. Preferably a different indicator from just “waiting regular messages”, and a way to view mod warnings or messages from moderators.

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        7 hours ago

        No, I mean clicking on them and reading them doesn’t mark them as read. You have to manually click the “Mark all as read” button or individually click the “mark as read” arrow button on each of the comments.

  • oyenyaaow@lemmy.zip
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    20 hours ago

    Tagging. del.icio.us style tagging. LJ style tagging. as free-form as tumblr or as structured as AO3’s tagging system. any tagging system. as long as there is tagging system.

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    19 hours ago

    Some sort of super community that are searchable (i.e. not something Clientside) and span multiple servers. The fragmentation of having the same few communities everywhere is my biggest issue here.

    In general I want more and better discoverability of communities anywhere.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      19 hours ago

      Yeah, it’s be great if a community could decide to link its feed with another community, essentially to make them one super-community that share the same content and members. Factorio, for example, has I think three communities. I’m sure there are many worse than that.

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    20 hours ago

    option to get notifications when a post or a comment subtree gets a new comment. Especially (but not only) useful for your own posts, and for when you have commented on a topic whereyou are interested in not only the direct responses, but in the overall discussion.

    to handle deleted content better: when a post or a comment is deleted, keep them openable, to still have the context readable

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      19 hours ago

      When you ask OP a question, then someone says “I’d like to know, too!” and OP only replies to the comment under yours.

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        18 minutes ago

        and only I get notified. and only for that reply, if discussion continues in deeper replies I won’t get notified

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    19 hours ago

    Some sort of automatic down-sampling feature before posting, for images, video and maybe audio.

    DeltaChat has this built in to minimise file-sizes before posting.

    Something like this would reduce plenty of bandwith/processor use/carbon etc. Increase speed of loading pages.

    With an option to click to see the original media too.

  • tal@lemmy.today
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    20 hours ago

    Reddit Markdown lets one use italics inside links, like so:

    I like [the author of *A Game of Thrones*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin).
    

    However, Lemmy does not presently support this syntax, renders it as:

    I like the author of A Game of Thrones.

    I frequently want to have partially-styled links like this, particularly italics.

    EDIT: Okay, I just discovered that apparently this has been implemented since the last time I tried it. Thanks, devs!

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      13 hours ago

      Lol I’ve had the experience of others not from my country telling me what the real politics of my country are because they know better than the people living there, apparently. No thanks.

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      19 hours ago

      The post you’re responding to is explicitly asking for things that don’t involve content on lemmy, but rather functionality in lemmy.

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    1 day ago

    Notification whenever there’s something in the mod queue of a board I moderate. At least I don’t see any such notification when using Voyager.

    User migration between instances.

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      21 hours ago

      Yeah, user migration would be nice.

      If it were a shift to simply using a keypair as the basis for identity, which would be a big change, then one could potentially transparently use any instance. That’d be neat from an instance reliability standpoint.

      Keypair-based identity would also permit migrating an account from a permanently failed instance. Right now, the home instance is the authoritative source for the account. The problem with that is that if the instance goes away forever, then there’s no authoritative source left to determine who controls a user account. One of the use cases that I’m worried about is a big instance going down because the admins get in a car crash or something, and it killing all the user reputation that’s been built up, because nothing can be done after the permanent failure.

      IIRC feddit.uk had a close call like this a while back.