The ability to view posts that I upvoted
This. On r*ddit I used to upvote posts, and save really important ones to organise them. Maybe even some way to organize bookmarked posts.
Don’t know if that’s a client side thing or not.
Obviously client side, but Apollo for Reddit allowed you to bin saved posts into specific categories. I understand it wasn’t trivial to implement, but hope a Lemmy client is able to implement something similar one day.
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 PR in lemmy will implement the issue PR #3869. Looking at the thread, the devs have completed the work and waiting for successful testing.
Oh wow…. This is so nice to see. Thanks for the heads-up!
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.
Follow requests! A standard feature from the microblogging side all other software already support.
In fact, all follows in ActivityPub are follow requests by default (normal follows are simulated by just auto-accepting all follows serverside). That’s why when servers are overloaded you end up with the “subscription pending” message, as the
Accept/Followactivity never reaches your server.
You can follow people and do regular posts on kbin in case you didn’t know yet.
But, as far as I know, you can’t have a feed of posts from people that you follow, instead they get folded into the magazines.
Huh, seems like you’re right or at least I couldn’t find anything like that. I feel like theoretically ot should be able to do that, so I’m gonna snoop around a bit more and maybe file an issue. Doesn’t help that kbin’s UI is still pretty atrocious at the moment, but the project is still fairly young and developing at a good pace at least.
Oh no knock on kbin here from me. Seems the design is still community/magazine focused is all.
The suggestion in my previous post (which others have made BTW) is not just about having both microblogging and reddit-like platforms in one place, but, IMO, creating a blogosphere type of platform fused with a Reddit-like platform, and which, if you want, can function like microblogging and have microblogging platforms easily mapped onto it (for federation purposes).
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.
This is on my todo list ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
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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.
Alt text for blind people in images, a la Mastodon.
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.
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…
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…
By making it convenient on the tech side, and having a cohesive enough culture that any newcomers from the many Twitter migrations just did the right thing because that was the norm when they joined.
I myself won’t boost anything that doesn’t have alt text for example. (Which is still surprisingly common despite the reputation of Masto being well-alt-texted)
Got it.
Well, Lemmy already kind of has its own culture, and it didn’t catch here yet. But I hope that, if the feature gets implemented, we manage to spread its usage.
Lemmy appears to have focused more on instance culture than systemwide culture and lacked / discouraged using user level or mod level tools to do anything to enforce or preserve it.
It also started out with a strong “this is Reddit but you can’t censor us” culture and when more people from Reddit showed up that then meant “this is Reddit but you can’t censor us” became “this is more of Reddit.”
A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy is a good read - https://gwern.net/doc/technology/2005-shirky-agroupisitsownworstenemy.pdf
The bit about Communitree on page 9 (labeled as 191) is most relevant.
Though I’m still curious about how distinct of a culture Lemmy had that was distinct from the culture on an instance (with the corresponding “the only way to categorically prevent the culture of another instance from spreading to another was to defederate”).
There’s still some “wider” culture here. Specially in this topic (accessibility), given that at least some redditfugees left as Reddit Inc. was showing a middle finger to its blind users. And from further checking, alt text for images is already implemented:
If the pic above doesn’t load, it’ll show “The Lemmy logo” instead. But in no moment the interface tells you “hey, add alt text” (there’s a feature request for that though). It doesn’t show on mouseover either, as in Mastodon, and I think that this is important (it shows non-blind users that the alt text does something).
As such there’s still a good chance that this spreads across Lemmy, if implemented better.
I do agree however that Lemmy is more focused on instance culture than the platform-wide culture. That’s visible for me as I’ve noticed that, usually, users behaving too “Reddity” tend to cluster on certain instances, and avoid others. That sounds like a compromise between large scale and seeking what the link calls “the dense, interconnected pattern that drives group conversation and collaboration” - let the kids use the platform, but somewhere that it won’t hamper adult discussion.
Though I’m still curious about how distinct of a culture Lemmy had that was distinct from the culture on an instance (with the corresponding “the only way to categorically prevent the culture of another instance from spreading to another was to defederate”).
The relatively higher barrier of entry of the platform as a whole selects people who are a bit more prone to discuss tech, in detriment to other subjects. And even considering your typical user in “reddity instances”, he might look dumb in comparison with the rest of lemmy, but he’s still an IQ 9001 in comparison with your typical redditor.
(I’m still reading the .pdf, saved it here. Thanks for the link, it looks interesting. As of yet I’ve focused mostly on the part that you mentioned to be relevant for this discussion.)
given that at least some redditfugees left as Reddit Inc. was showing a middle finger to its blind users.
Many of them headed over to [email protected] though it only has one community on it and rather low activity overall (the most recent comment on the site was left 5 days ago). Glancing at all on that instance, not many people subscribed externally and the reddit continues to have more activity today than rblind has had this month (based on number of posts and comments).
Part of this, I believe, is a mismatch between what Lemmy offers (and while some things are more accessible than Reddit, others aren’t) and what different communities need. startrek did quite well with startrek.website… but /r/blind and rblind seem to be more of an sync chat… and Lemmy does that poorly compared to other offerings.
If you look at the tail end of many communities ( for example https://programming.dev/communities?listingType=Local&page=4 ) you can see a bunch of “lift and shift” attempts of a community on Reddit that just didn’t do it. [email protected] was one were the mod closed the sub on Reddit for a while and said “go here” … but the problem was that the mod wasn’t the one creating the content and so it kind of sputtered out.
And so part of the difficulty of the reddit exodus - it wasn’t the content creators and power users that moved over here with the expectations of great amounts of new content, but rather the mods and the dissatisfied. Those who were able to find an existing community here tended to do reasonably well. Those who tried to start one from scratch (“follow me to the new Lemmy instance”) … that often didn’t work well unless the community wanted to go and a lot of them were grumpy about a mod shutting down the sub.
Which brings us to “just dropping the culture of a reddit sub on a general Lemmy instance (lemmy.world and lemmy.ml vs startrek.website)” tended to be an experience that was overall worse for everyone involved than Reddit.
… And lets face it, the content creators that came to Lemmy aren’t the ones posting neat things in woodworking, but rather the ones making memes.
By making it convenient on the tech side
This more than anything, I think, made the largest difference. There were lots of alt-scolds on every other platform, but Mastodon embraced alt text to a far greater degree … BECAUSE IT’S SO EASY.
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.
The ability to easily link to a specific post or comment in a way that works across instances/clients, like you can with communities.
That is a reallu good idea.
there’s a discussion about that here https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987
I’d get rid of the bots that repost content and comments from Reddit.
go to your /settings page and uncheck “Show Bot Accounts”
I’m actually the opposite, I’m glad I can leech off reddit and use it to kickstart communities but I see where you’re coming from.
100000%
Support for user blocking by instance.
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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Hide read posts only from the frontage. There should be an option to have them visible in their community itself to refer back later.
@[email protected] 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)
Ability to migrate account or a community to another instance.
Can we do this after they shut down their server please
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
I’d make the culture more like the rest of the fediverse, instead of reddit like as it is now. Too many ex reddit folk have brought the bad parts of reddit culture with them
Yeah, the feeling of chatting with considerate adults is slipping. I’ve started doing the Reddit thing of typing out a comment and then hitting the cancel button because I didn’t want to deal with contrarians.
Respond with contrarian-bait and then go slap-happy with blocks. Eventually the professional contrarians vanish from your feed never to be seen again.
I totally agree. Lemmy had an awesome, friendly helpful vibe and the reddit exodus had a noticeably negative affect on the nature of the discourse. It became more nasty, more petulant more quipy, and more angsty. Now that people are here, I’m not at all saying they should leave, but maybe read the room and try to be a part of something better. The internet doesn’t have to be a hostile place.
