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I'd like to invite you all to share your thoughts and ideas about Lemmy. This feedback thread is a great place to do that, as it allows for easier discussions than Github thanks to the tree-like comment structure. This is also where the community is at.

Here's how you can participate:

  • Post one top-level comment per complaint or suggestion about Lemmy.
  • Reply to comments with your own ideas or links to Github issues related to the complaints.
  • Be specific and constructive. Avoid vague wishes and focus on specific issues that can be fixed.
  • This thread is a chance for us to not only identify the biggest pain points but also work together to find the best solutions.

By creating this periodic post, we can:

  • Track progress on issues raised in previous threads.
  • See how many issues have been resolved over time.
  • Gauge whether the developers are responsive to user feedback.

Your input may be valuable in helping prioritize development efforts and ensuring that Lemmy continues to meet the needs of its community. Let's work together to make Lemmy even better!

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[–] Sackeshi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Most communities are almost dead, we need to make a effort to pull enmass people from reddit to here

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I think polls could be useful.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

Piefed has polls

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

NSFW only filter. Flip the existing one, add that as radio button with the NSFW block.

[–] remon@ani.social 13 points 3 days ago (4 children)

A multi-community feature that allows you to group communities into a single feed is urgently needed.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 4 points 1 day ago

pretty sure Lemmy v1.0 will have that

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[–] PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (17 children)

The issue with Lemmy's "all feed" is that the largest or most popular instances tend to dominate what appears there, which undercuts the ability of users on niche or smaller instances to discover content truly relevant to their specific interests. This make different instances feel less distinct and reduces the value of joining a niche instance. This lack of meaningful, diverse niche content makes federation a moot point—if every instance is just a clone of the same meme and political noise, users gain nothing distinct from joining a smaller or niche instance, turning Lemmy into a less convenient, more fractured Reddit without the depth or polish users expect.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

I use subscribed feeds, sorted by "scaled". It pushes stuff from smaller communities I'm interested in up higher. Scaled doesn't work that well on All though. It does mean I need to subscribe to things first, but I generally just subscribe to everything I'm interested in. I also browse All sorted by Top 6h regularly, to see what else is happening. Pretty good combo.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

+100

The default “hot” sorting algorithm needs to prioritize smaller communities. Yes, I know we have new comments and scaled, but a classic UX principle is most users use the defaults.

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[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If you want to see smaller communities, sort by "Scaled"

If you REALLY want to browse All, try the "New Comments" sort, it's like old forums

But I rarely look at All, mostly just Subscribed or Local

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago

PieFed's categories of communities / Topic areas does this. When I used Lemmy I never found anything remotely close to that, but perhaps the best was to (1) visit each and every community that you want to check up on individually, and/or (2) use New rather than Hot or Top... and then be prepared to block hundreds of communities that you never want to see content from, like sports or individual locations (cities, towns, stateships, regions, countries, etc.).

PieFed also combines all comments across all cross-posts, reversing the fragmentation effect from having too many communities split across many instances.

You all on Lemmy need to catch up!:-P

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[–] DougHolland@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I'd like the ability to block users when I stumble over an imbecile while browsing, but I still need to see the blocked user's comments in groups that I moderate.

At present, user blocks are absolute, and don't take moderation into consideration. This means, since I moderate a group, I can't block users. If I do, and they later post to the group I moderate, I won't see their posts or comments.

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (13 children)

Thanks for reaching out to the community. Here are mine.

  1. universal tagging (when you friend or follow a user, whatever they tag (comms or users) is shared with you until you unfollow them
  2. community aggregators. For big communities, merge crossposts automatically on bigger communities like !dataisbeautiful@lemmy.ml and !dataisbeautiful@lemmy.world and !dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz and !dataisbeautiful@lemmit.online
  3. better federated moderation. Notifications of mod actions not just on your own instance, but everywhere. When a post is deleted by a mod for a reason, include the OP in the mod message so you can rewrite or remove the offending part of the message and repost the essence. I can imagine lots of scenarios where devs/mods don’t think that’s a good idea, but some of us didn’t read all the rules and didn’t mean any offense.
  4. Deeper publicly available voting analytics (on post level first but also comment level would be good) when you click on […] next to the metadata, get a voting pie chart that shows which instance the upvotes and downvotes came from. Even an barebones analysis tool that checks if a disproportionate % of up or down votes came from an instance that is rather small or only recently federated.
  5. This may be client related, but push notifications on comments, mod actions and DMs would be nice too.
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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Personal labels/tags or whatever they are called for both users and communities would be awesome to have in the standard lemmy front end. I think some apps or other formats might have them, but I do like the default lemmy interface and they would be extremely handy to have saved by an account for personal reminders.

Some examples would be the ability to set personal reminders for uncommon rules on specific communities or who has good takes on some random topic. There are just so many of both and it can be hard to keep similarly named things straight.

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[–] Auth@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The ability to block posts by keyword would be nice. The ability to merge communities and have lemmy move the subscriptions over to the merged community, mastodon does something similar with moving accounts so it is possible.

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[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Don't use github, don't post like an AI, don't compare to piefed without constructive criticism.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

Remotely open post, similar to remote follow

I think this would greatly reduce confusion for new users when they click a Lemmy link and end up on a different instance

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2318

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Lemmy needs a hierarchy similar to Usenet, or a way to tag each c/ with keywords to make it easier for the user or client software to block huge swaths of topics the user is not interested in.

Examples: Memes. Sports. News. Politics. Entertainment. Music.

It would improve signal to noise ratio in the All feed, allowing users to find new content they are interested in, rather than simply 100 dupes of things they are not.

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[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Are you affiliated with the project? Because I don't think the devs are tracking this post. You should contribute to the project itself: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

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[–] i_ben_fine@midwest.social 4 points 3 days ago

I don't like anybody else here. Please leave.

[–] DuskyRo@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 10 points 3 days ago

While I would love this personally. I think this is still a bit of a browser support issue Etc. But yes jpeg XL please. Smaller size for similar fidelity as JPEG. Even lossless with transparencies much better sizes than PNG. Though I know there is traction on the PNG side again and they are talking of implementing something other than lzma compression. That's still the future. Jpeg XL is here and now. Not As tied as webp is to a single company Period and not quite as esoteric as avif is.

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[–] individual@toast.ooo 8 points 3 days ago (16 children)

how do I follow specific users?

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

Mbin and piefed would be better for that.

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[–] PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Over the past few days, I’ve witnessed a remarkable surge in the number of communities on browse.feddit.de. What started with 2k communities quickly grew to 4k, and now it has reached an astonishing 8k. While this exponential growth signifies a thriving platform, it also brings forth challenges such as increased fragmentation and the emergence of echo chambers. To tackle these issues, I propose the implementation of a Cross-Instance Automatic Multireddit feature within Lemmy. This feature aims to consolidate posts from communities with similar topics across all federated instances into a centralized location. By doing so, we can mitigate community fragmentation, counter the formation of echo chambers, and ultimately foster stronger community engagement. I welcome any insights or recommendations regarding the optimal implementation of this feature to ensure its effectiveness and success.

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