The ability to view posts that I upvoted
Probably need to be client side tbh but when someone mass posts the same article across multiple communities and instances I only see it once with a list of where its posted if you go into it.
Yeah, one post and links to the different comment sections below it
Or the comment sections could just be merged together in the client view. Each thread of comments would belong to one (and only one) instance, so it shouldn’t be difficult to merge those lists together when presenting the aggregate view to the user.
This already happens in the webui with native crossposting
If they use the crosspost feature this should already happen. Of course no apps support that yet to my knowledge.
This is my #1 request as well. Not easy to implement I’m sure but would be a huge QoL upgrade.
Instance blocking/defederate on a user level
This. So much this. I’m about to figure out how to make open server just do I can block all the hentai and furry porn servers.
Redw0rm posted that this is about to come to Lemmy!
- Low hanging: user defined multi-communities
- Hard (high hanging fruit): allow users to look and behave like communities so that we can follow each other (and masto users too ) as we would normal communities, where each user has their own (or multiple!) “community” they can populate and moderate as they see fit.
As long as this is opt-in, I’m okay with this. I personally don’t want to have followers.
I wouldn’t stop using Lemmy because of “user profiles”, but this was one of the worst things implemented by Reddit. Basically started the slide into Facebook-tier
add some damn good mod tools. lemmy will die if the user base grows and the mod tools do not.
Not a mod tool, but since I’ve found you. Is there a way to hide post points on user devices from being shown to the user? If not, feature request please.
Depending on my mood, I sometimes do not want to see the points my posts have received. And likewise, sometimes I don’t want to see the points others have received either.
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Mod Tool would be a good Halloween costume.
I have made an AutoMod, does it count? :))
Less community repetition. I feel like it spreads out potential members and makes each community smaller with repetitive content. I wish communities could be more linked so they share content and members.
I’ve had a thought, what if clients allowed users to mix and match communities so that they show as one? You could bundle all the gaming communities into one for instance. You’d still see where each publication originates from but they would appear in the same feed
Pretty sure Summit is the only one to implement that so far.
The issue with this is doing it locally.
If you bundle 20 communities you’d end up doing 20 requests back to back to create the combined list. Could end up being really slow.
But aren’t clients already doing this in order to display ‘all’ or ‘subscribed’ ?
Nah that comes back from the API in on call, it’s combined on lemmys side.
How does moderation work this way?
One idea: Community owners can link their community with another, like friend requests between communities. From that point they act like one community with multiple owners. Everything is duplicated, and that includes removing content and banning users. Client side apps can show them as one community.
The ability to easily link to a specific post or comment in a way that works across instances/clients, like you can with communities.
there’s a discussion about that here https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987
That is a reallu good idea.
Link communies. When two communies are linked they act like one with multiple names distributed on multiple instances. This would solve the dublicate communities on different instance problem.
Beautiful. But it would be tough to make moderation work. Administration too, for that matter.
I think it could work like this:
The moderators of each community are primarily responsible for their posts and keep an eye on the moderation by the other community. If one side is unhappy with the moderation of the other, they can cut the link and vice versa.
Administrators act as if the others community’s post are part of the community on their instance too. If there are weird posts, the community gets banned etc.
I think Linking would be great.
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Alt text for blind people in images, a la Mastodon.
Could this be solved with an app?
I’m not sure but I don’t think so. It would require the server to store the alt text for the picture.
And it would also require people to actually use the feature. I still don’t know how Mastodon managed to pull this off in this regard…
Would adding ML generated descriptions of images help here? Would be trivial to add in a third party client.
Perhaps it would help a bit, I don’t know. Even if it does, it would be far less than having the sharer to actually write something, and telling the reader the focus of the picture.
I’ll give you a personal albeit real example of that. I posted this picture in Mastodon, some time ago:
A machine learning model could theoretically say something like there’s a tabby cat in the picture, one semi-abstract acrylic painting, one figurative oil painting. Both paintings rest on a white wall… except that most of those things don’t matter, what matters is what the cat is doing towards the viewer.
Contrast it with the translated version of the alt text that I’ve provided: A playful tabby cat, leaning against the back of a chair, looking at the viewer. Her head, upper thorax, and paws are visible. One paw is holding the back of the chair; the other paw is on the air, in an “I got you!” movement towards the viewer. It’s completely different and, when I wrote this, I hoped that both blind and non-blind users could get something out of the picture that they wouldn’t without the alt text.
And it’s the same deal with other Mastodon posters, not just me. This system - where the user is expected to provide alt text - works well, IMO.
I do like that Mastodon reminds you to add Alt text before posting an image. People think alt text is just for the blind or near blind but sometimes I have a hard time figuring out why a picture was posted and the alt text clears that up. All that to say, it’s reminders help create the habit of adding text descriptors, which helps everyone.
Hide read posts only from the frontage. There should be an option to have them visible in their community itself to refer back later.
@ljdawson@lemmy.world my request is a bit different. I actually use Sync. When we hide posts from the frontpage using “Hide Read Posts” toggle, it hides the post from both the frontpage and the community where the post was posted. I’d like to have a setting where it only hides read posts from the frontpage.
Sometimes I like to go back to a community (like Starfield for e.g.) to read posts that I hid previously from frontpage to see newer discussions or just look back at things after a couple of days.
Oh I see. Kind of how this used to work with saved items on your profile on Reddit?
Umm, I’m not sure as I didn’t use Sync for Reddit, if it was an app specific feature.
In the current Lemmy app if we hide read posts, they are kinda lost. I’d like to visit a community and even see the read posts that were hidden from the frontpage. It could be an option for the user to decide if they want the current method or let the hidden “read” posts be hidden only from the All/Subscribed/Local frontpage (and not from the community page itself)
Support for user blocking by instance.
Some sort of organizational hierarchy or tagging system so the user could block wide swaths of communities like sports, celebrities, music, or whatever they aren’t interested in; without having to block each community individually.
Usenet like tree, maybe with symbolic links?
Maybe a hashtag feature for communities would be a quick start at this
The pie in the sky answer is “get all my friends and relations to use it.”
More realistically: I wish I could follow or friend a person here.
Your own posts should show in your profile even you have Show Read Posts off. And there should be an easy visible toggle while browsing.
I’d like the “show context” link to work. Maybe that’s just me? It used to work but no longer. It’d be helpful when I go to a post from the reply notification thing. (viewing this on the web in Firefox)
