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?
Being able to actually migrate an account, not just settings and follows etc but your post and comment history etc. All data
Some way of linking to a post somewhere on Lemmy that will open up the post in your logged in instance of Lemmy.
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That helps, but honestly, it shouldn’t be a client workaround.
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there’s https://lemmyverse.link, but a native way of doing so would be nice.
Ultimately, using a protocol handler instead of URLs would solve that (ie: like how
mailtolinks works).Photon does that, and so does Tesseract, but it only works if you’re logged in since it relies on resolve object API call (which requires authentication)
Search the remote post URL in your search bar, it will open locally
Polls
Show me a list of posts and comments I upvoted.
That works with Boost for Lemmy, so apparantly the data is already there in the backend (and at least one frontend).
The voyager app has that feature.
The API supports that, but not all UIs do yet.
It’s on my “to do” list for my app.
Followong a user.
You can, at least, do that externally through RSS:
IIRC kbin/mbin have that, but I don’t recall whether it applies to all posted material or just a user’s microblog.
I never used it myself, as I really prefer the Reddit-style “community-oriented” structure to the Twitter-style “user-oriented” structure.
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Ninja edits. A grace period where you can edit your comment without it showing it was edited. This is usually for typos and formatting mistakes that you notice right after posting your comment. A minute will do.
There’s a last-edited time, which I think should provide a superset of that information.
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Maybe have clients/Web UI more-clearly highlight if a response predated the last parent edit, which is I think the case where that really becomes an issue.
Honestly, I haven’t actually seen anyone involved in bad-faith edits in conversations here. I’ve even seen people regularly thank people who provide corrections before correcting their post to credit the correction. Obviously, that doesn’t mean that it’s true everywhere or will last, but from a community standpoint, that’s one area where I’ve been pretty happy with people here.
If anything, I’d love a diff of each edit vs the ability to ninja edit
rather than allowing edits for invisible edits for X minutes, couldn’t your client just delay actually sending it for X minutes allowing to cancel or edit freely until that point?
Gmail allows a similar feature and it seems safer in a distributed system than relying on everyone else to respect what happens after you send a raw message and an edit right after
Implementing this like Gmail would mean doing it server-side. Handling it in the client would be more error-prone, since your device would have to have a good connection in the future, and if it doesn’t, handle retries and make sure never to double-post.
Back-up/failover instances for communities and users.
Every user and every admin of a community should be able to assign a failover instance in case the main instance goes down temporarily or permanently. All relevant data (posts, upvotes, settings, password hashes, mod log) would be permanently syched so you could just switch over in case of a downtime and most importantly, no content would be lost.
If you implement a feature to set the failover instance as your new main instance, that would also implicitly allow you to migrate users and communities elsewhere.
Tags for posts
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.
I want to be able to put alt text on an image post upload. Accessibility is cool.
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.
That’s great news, thank you! It’s something I’ve been asking for since I first began using Lemmy, but there didn’t seem to be interest in implementing it. I’m very glad to see that it’s been reconsidered.
It is implemented on Lemmy 0.19.4. Lemmy.world is one of the few instances still running 0.19.3
Add an equivalent to multireddits. I miss that so much
That can be done client-side. I don’t use the feature, but from a brief glance, it looks like the Android client I use when I’m on a phone, Eternity, supports it.
Probably slightly less efficient than supporting it at the API level.
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.
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.
The obvious one, tags and flairs
FYI: Tesseract and Photon both support those by putting [Tags] or [Flairs] at the beginning or end of the post title. Both make them clickable which will search for other posts containing the flair.
More users that aren’t Americans talking about their politics would be nice.
The post you’re responding to is explicitly asking for things that don’t involve content on lemmy, but rather functionality in lemmy.
True. In the grand tradition of the internet I only responded to the headline.
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.
Being able to block link posts by host. It is the one of the reasons I use mbin more than lemmy.
Like, block/hide posts that go to specific domains? i.e hide any posts that link to Facebook?
(I develop a lemmy app and may be able to add that capability on the frontend)
Yes, for example blocking “reddit.com”, “new.reddit.com”, “old.reddit.com”…
Thanks for clarifying.
I’ll definitely add that. Will probably include a few built-ins since they have a lot of different domains: Facebook, Xhitter, Reddit, etc. Those can be toggled and then add a separate list for the user to add custom domains.
e.g. Selecting “Reddit” would filter “old.reddit, new.reddit, reddit.com, out.reddit.com, etc” Selecting “Facebook” would filter all of their main and short domains, etc.
(I usually trawl posts like this to get feature ideas lol)
